Rehabilitation Gazette (Vol. 17, 1974) - Polio Place
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ReHaBlLlTaTlOtl GaZelTe <strong>1974</strong>INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL AND INFORMATION SERVICE FOR THE DISABLED
Forthcoming book:Houafnrand Home Sem'cesfff LheUiibledExciting ncws for the &nu: Donna McGwinn, bmkcditor, m d I have signed a euntmct with Harper & RowPublishers, Inc. to write a bonk on housing and homescrvicei for the dirahlcd. with i hh Tanton. stall arlist.Dunna, a free-lanrc writer, har k n wheolchaird hypolio since 1953 (she uses a respirator full-time and~rna .. rich hcr feet). . Far wan . I~E has lived done inher own borne, with a parade of allendants. As an"cxpcrl" she will write rlhaplcn on sttendanti andindependent living armngernPnL. by ihc scvcn.ly dirr.blcd.Bob, a C5-6 quad rincc 1959, when he madc an illfalcddirc during high rrhuul, earned his Masler'sdegree in cnlinaeling last year md is now as adomiciliary counselor at the West Alabama <strong>Rehabilitation</strong>Center. In March. <strong>1974</strong>, h? married Nanci EllcnSharp. Bob, r talentpd anirr, etdivens the Goletlr withhi8 li~hth~rrled carcunr.If you have built r hottse fur wheelchaired living ormadc some inlerosting rdaptalions, ur know of half-wryhouses, ur hotels, or nuning homer with youth wine,or aparltnenls for the dirrhled, or any unique som
~~INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL AND INFORMATION SERVICE FOR THE DISABLEDREHABILITATIONGAZETTE (formerly''TOOT j Cazuc'') 6s pu6lished o m oby o volume, mfl. I& arm is U, reach, toinfo""? and ro ,lg"i/y ih4 di,~
TravelVA Patients Vacation in Torontoby M. G. Eirenberx PILD.One of thc murl rl?hiliwtinr Eulirrrluencer ui lhospitaliz
.pllyrician'r intewcnlio!~. u,here could such assirfancr ED: Wr beat advance prrparatlon for a lovr of Canada ishc secur?d? F.ven~~~ll~. all "1 ll!ere and man" othcr suhs~nptinn to 7& Caliper, the infarma~ur and pncdcalprohl~mr wcrc rosaivod ta cuciyunz's ralirfariion. puhlicrlion oi tile Canadian Paraplrpr Association (153Tho patimi- are no," back ia Oevelmd and he live L""dhunl A-mu.. T"mnt". Onbrio M5R 3A2. 52 perday is cunridcrcd , have bcpn ruccosafu~. ~ i ~year).h ~ If Your lour is hmktnl, am* with ihc Spring <strong>1974</strong>and ,hme pa cacr,i.l"~.~hi~h d&ill thc BPEFSS~~~" fcafll~e6 0IrnOrC than "Wpar.Gnadian hotclr, motels. and reruns. Erny iriue 01 lkticip=t~d. Accomj1an~ingthemw=reoneR.N..onp1~.P. a,jo.,lisa ,hr.xcrutiur dirr.,on;nnd thea rs of allN.. thrce numinyassistants. anrl one recreational thcrr- ,he yrouinm,wEvOUld UmrS,thpist. mil? her? they raw thc rirh,r and sa,"pi?d the wriuto ,hem wnl, inyouneda.risancenisi11 aiirl cularal lilr of s tndy cxcitinr city.any ryeciiic pmblems. Canadian mvclers are reminded thatOnly cighl pa lie!^^^ participated this yoar: next ~mr. pa~~~IcPI~ Gndon Korber ha* pLnnrdtours ofhu~~cfully lnorc will take tlart. For ar nrohlpnls have Haxaii.Addr.a.:TotcmTravclSeMces.HillsideMall.Yicio., 8 I I . I. I., < 8 . . < 8 11.1 I \. . ,I..",. ,I,,.. ,,,I,,.,I.u. \.,,I:,, ,.a.I, 1. I. I. 1. 1 .11, 1.1 11. rl, I,,. 11 11.4,: 1.11 11 ,111. 1, . r ,. r 8 , . .. 1 n,,.,, I,,,, I,,, I..,,, +,,,, I ,.I 1. . I I 8 I I .#rl# -.-1 .(.. I I I .Pi Ilr?liI .A,.,#.< k I $:gun,A :.n.,'l>bin hospitals, and thoss c0din.d a humcs rill rrarl liiii 2P2.rrtirle and pian sin1ilrr venmres. Pooling your rcso,,rcciand ~nlhuriasm cr,, only air,,.? n,rr?ss.Address: M. 6. Eirsnlrerg. Ph.D.. Cuudinaiur a1 Psycho-SncirlRehrhilirrtion, Spinal rnrd Injury Sewice.Vetrranr Adminirlraliun Hospilal. 10701 b rf Ruule~vard, Clcvrland. Ohia 4%10b.Ldii.trl1 R%llllnroll OeJJ, Ed Brawn. iirl.nsrl lll.lllllll lllll..r. Rliiiirll Toirlhrnii. a#>d lir. Sa!~>hlrl I,. ,2-i>is.i,l>h lhrli~~l .m~nlir ihc trip tn'lhron~~.hnr~~ital din.,tor.<strong>1974</strong>, VnlurneXYII 3
Travel in MexicoA Wheelchair TourI,, Blanche o d Lenny Goidwote,-lairs, ravel, m rough roaclr v~re not thrrr. HP saibduianrl aurwheelchairs right uveithem.Thcothrr thingthr, never hothcrcd him wrb timc. We f"""d it to bctrue thal ihp "macana" uf song and story war Lh? by-~"nl of Maicu. Tlwy do not id lhing like dcrdlincrbnthcr llirm. To limo-wa,ching Anlencms lflir ran I??Lothcrramc, Juan, beingthoruu~blyM~rirm.~vasindii~fcrenl to derdlinc~.Thrre wprr fivo af us - Jclan, our fricnd Marvinlanrky. our sun Adnnia, md ur. Juau bad organhad thetour b~autifuliv incl~~dine mrnv ularri wp thoueht wc\ *. .. .'.. ' 8..8 I , I, .> 1 11, ., ,A, 1 : I ., l.,. I, ?..,I 1, 11% ,...,, 11/11.,11 ,.* I. , , , I . . . I.. .! L1 .11111,rid?. Adur~is, an rctivc 18~ypar-"Id. hclpe~l gel therhrelchair.rll over to sec cucryllii~lg, hut wo know (hatrilhout .Juan insistine that nothine was imonssihlc. wechi mas6 in Cucrnavaca'r mciom cathedral, climhing!ha narrow f u l l af rnns - oictureanur slrpets ofGuanaiw~to. visiting historical San ~ i g dc ~ Allende. ~ ilearningamund Guadalaiara - docs lhilsound ILe r whcolchair Lour of Moxicd? Well. hat isonly park of it if your agent and tour lsad~r is h~anAnmnio Heypr. .Ow pidd did the impossibleJuan was a lucky accaenc for (us. Gini T~aripsu~e~tedthat whilo wc were in Guadrlajara. wc ~e-ct to knowArturo Hpyer, r Gmty c~ntriln~i~r. Am10 is a quadand a graduat~ eneincer. Amans a number of omiactreollcec was tourism and who is nuw a travcl agcnl andsomewhat of an oxport on takinp, ihc disablcd on ~u~hrjuf Mcxico. Turn lover his counrn md irkcs oridc incould not always kacp ap vitli as.cmada1=jaraG~~dalajara was iavorite syul. and thc place wevlritcd LIIP loneest - it just grows on yo!) Thz longerstry I/ICTP. the better it lnnks md the morp cosmo~oulitm it t,csomer, A citv "1 olle md 0°C hall ">illionpcui,le, it lnalw hotter by night hccause ever!*hv~gis lit,nth rvarm ydlsw li~l~tr. Thcre lights. mllcciing off thcpalm irm, rive a tropic, frstirc air to even
or of each ulhcr, and thcv ail sharc cummur~ pmlhlen~s.Thc ntlclcus of rlw gmup spems to be Eilccn Var8 Al~hers WP think "1 her as the cenlral ,.learing hotlsc ofir~forn,afiun and asristancc. Amusg ~b longest in rcsidcncc,Eileen ramp lo Gurdrlajaia clcvcn years agowhen her masrular dyrtiopl~y progreieed to thc puinl~vbrrc livinr in California lhcci,nr too dilfic~rlt md crpcnsivc.Now ~11c hrs been so successful in h ~ resettle- rmmt, rlw lhas brcoms cueryoi~~'r problcm-solrcr. Nssdu huusc? Need r maid? Nood an aitcndarll:? A plumber?A grrd~~rr?An idn? Good mmpmf! lurt call Eileen!If cllir Eilrun SUU~I~ lik~ a nlirrrl? lady, ihal'rbccotlso she is. N? are rclatiny only whal utlr mperienrrwid) her har heen.SpeeializPd residencesIUSL rr Cu~~la1ajam's American populrtion ir not ehethizedintoany one area, the same ir tillr of it* disa1,lpdmmbers. They are sprpad nu, aver ~ l ci~y ~ c aud liveeither i. ,heir .\.,I hurllriur rpartmcnts or in rpocirlhedrrridvnccs fur Lhc dirablcd. There are SOmP six Orswcn ur thcsc rebidencer pmuiding private ruun, $"ill,bath, harrd. md frill rttpnrlanl car,.. Kaics ranKc fromSIR5 to $300 a munlh.'lllr ,lisabled individual vhu pre&n lo live in onc ofthe rcsidcllca~ will And celtain barics a mom laamctimeslnreo) ~ith a large bathroom ro rccomrr8ndrt~~~heelchrirs in r mutcl-like arrang~mrnt. Rooms hawLO n:cnmmodrfe polsonal aide, wlin are rrrilahlcfar an uxtra $50 lo $60 a month. Each rc?iclrnc'? llrsa rpntrrl dining room wl~ere three merlb a day. ulaverag~ qariity, rr? senod at rnrcilied honm. The companionship01 fellow reridentr mrv br cnjujed aL >mealcinlrs or wlicncr.cr clsc usir is in ll~e mood.Kcsidal~res vary rr ta rho actual physical )plant, fromvery mudsn, (Villa PI $01) to merger and rum~whatrun dawn. Howcosr. ths pltyrical plant is not lhc urllynson for ri~oosieg a plrcc. Althongh ib iphyiicrl plantia by no muanr rs modern rr Villa d ~ Sol. l llacienda deF~irntei (another rwidcnce down ? Mnck from Villadrl Sol) seems to be rhc mart j,ur#lular arnnng ihc rcridcnl.rsin wmis af rt~nasphcrc and rood f~llo~rsl~ip. Itis mn by a qardriplc~ir. Paul Prrino.Therc ir an uccariunal funclirmr> rilch rr r film or asariarhi band collccrf hcld a, ,he re.id?nrer. but forthe part p~oplemrke their ornrmuscmrnl. Of thei~aidrnccs ar risitrd. 111r w ~r we arlmirpd most was-.cr Illal.~. It ivai just a Iarw house that cipit B~YS sllar~dwith ilirir p?rsnnrl attcndmti. Thc~ all cusridrr itlinmc. and the jllacr lpplr that ivay when YOU walk in.Iodependent livingFor thosc wha \vmt more ind~pmdrncc and priyacy.rprrtmrnis a d h"lli"i -,nor, arcl>ilcctorrlly rrresii-ble -am rvrilrhl~ a1 lor in aenrihlp rates. 'Thosesaiv rrr~grd fmrn $50 n munth fur a very nicc, adequate,livu~b~druoi?# rlrarlmrnt with prirrtc patio ta SIR0 rmonth furs lour-hedron,n. tl,rpel~athroon, home richlauntrini, gardpnr, ar~d ll~r work. Thcrc i~ somethingiraildblc fur rrcry ncod md puripsire. A perior~al aid?to rake crrc of you md your l#u!rtr isnuld cost bonvccn$60 a,i~l $120 a rno~i~l,. lost loods ar~ inexppnsivc.Tclsnhoncr. if YOU cm set one, ar? rli~af~ as are heOIIIP~ ~ t i ~ iSUCI,t i ~ ~ gas rr,,~ circ~ncity over~iii~l~,! ~o,q>lrail lirc, at a fairly high iirndrrd. forN O lu 8500r month. A single, walking pmuri cm doit rr $250 a mot~rl~. all incliaivc: anyone needing miiclc rl~uuld plan on r olinimum of $300.Nevernere. Land?There ii m i1,tcrcsting com,non denominator amongmost nl th? people we met at tlipie residences. With thcjlusril>le rrcep~ion of ll~e s~anagers, whn also rr? disrbled,inost of ihc uihcra sccm lo lviie nullling b dm anddnrlt care. Thry rppprr to b? lost soulb whoarc mnningrvry to tlw ncrcr-nowr lmd. hiding tlvir herds in ti,?raild. Snmp dill not want L~ Biniiss lillw they ,,ass ll~eirtilncThir dirlarlrd ,IS. Itscarlal as il~inkin~ihuul hu,vwc wntzld usc uar cimc if ac chors s m"vc from ,hisharsh nanhrast~rn rliniatp to rlv good lif? and gent19living in Mrxicu, lloir cuuld ~hssc peor~lc n~rkc ilxirlire6 more producure?Cp~ldiniy. it, cmmr nf oh^ own neerlr. wp woald considrra 1 ~ ~ Rortl?ing ~ ~ ~ a s Ihoaiel~uld, ~ . planning meals.markciinp, and cntcririning would occupy a pod dealnf ll~e rlry Also, we >muld nped thp spar? in accommo.dalr lo,?gt~rn~ viiirun. Wr alsocoald lakr advmvageuiiha lac, illal Guadalajara has li,,o major sniversitics.onc9 5". I"..,I Spanisl, w.1 ?"">~gi, 1" repi a, I,omr ini,. ,vc n,igi,, chuurs L" trkc cuurscr at 0°C of the uni-"~~8iti~1.On? af t l things ~ we uollld most look fnrrard LOwot~I,I hr getting avquaiiu~cd will, ll~e Mexican l~cuplc.Wc raoid nu, limit oorsch.es to thc An~cricrn cammun~lyThc Mcrican pcoplr. Lclr history, and thrlr culerrareagreat 5oulreol ~II~PTPS,. In addition, therrillllof ihc Spanish-lndm mlxtizre is r rcli beautiful pcapl?.WP f~lf it a MSLP tllrt I ~ O I nl ~ the Amnirms wp,rlrl inriu .,~ly a tninit8,al ainslun~ of Spanish and did,)',car lu lc.irn s~urr. Alru. thcv kllciv nu Mrricrnr ulhcrthan their own pcrsonrl aides. Wc fclt thcl wcrc missillgsumlii 1, of ih? ~rriting life around tl~cm. It ran allbrcomsa cnn~lir~~inu-rdvrr~~itrr if you or~ly krirnv wl~nrcto look. 11 you rc:%llr are 8ntcrcsted in setting to knowyllar Mcxiran npighbom, il sii~~ald be ratl!rr rrsy luge!lu meet ilicrn ur~rr your Spmi.11 is undcrstnidrblc.Il,,r""tinp your Ill? to r~lorrf? in r npir FDUllfry is abig ri~i~. Hnwrr~r. i\,Imn ~,:PII will! enierilig all ii~stilo~liun or limilir,g~o~~r:i~li~ili~~bl-~atzsc~fulimnlcor lack(11 rrristrncc. ~hr. rap to Guadrla,nr bccomer m crsyill," ti, take.
Driving a Camper Vanby Joe h r i ~Nter much research into the subjee, ui vans for ananicle in ihc 1973 r-eze, ancl a midnight encounterwith a hunpn hlack bear in the Grand Tetonr, wedccided tile melnl skin of a van was much mure recurcthan a ~ent. Tho Dodge Maxi~Van had a 360 "".in.mo,or, automatic tranlmirsion, power steering andbrdkcs, air conditioning, and a usolosr cigarette lighter.An m-F'M radio, a "Pop-UpTop:' anJ a rear zestwhich convened u, a bed were added later. An cneriarr~pmdr for 1IRuolt line wm ronncctcd toan interiorplug-in box. An adapter lo convert the thr~cprongiineL" a two-prong ir a mu31 l" have as an erlra. A handoperatedwater pamp, hooked to a livc-~allon piraticjug. and m extra five-gallon jug assured purp drinkingWdlC..Red bpc st the bode.A ,ouris, cad is your permit to visi, Mcxico. Tho formcan bc filled in hefore yo,, depart, using birth rertifirate,voter's rc~istration card. or pars,", as proof ofuilizenrhip; tho farm will be ualidacd in Monco withthc proof which you bmmigin along. ~aturalimd U.S.citizens and Crnadianr "ills, hauc a pmport 10 spcureihp card. The rard is frcr and is good for 180 clays: ifyullr ,tay e~ceeris tllir timo a return to (he border furanulher permi, is ncccssaryA permit for the automobile will bc issued by Cub,oms - Aduona after prssonwtion of rereipt forlicense registration; m up~t-dale driver's tiisa must. men all permits arc cornplotcd, keepin a ready envelope for fut~~n scrutiny.Only Mcncsn auto insurance apptior there. A US. orCanadian paliry is usclcss. If involvpd in an accident.you arc ~tlilty until proven innoeent - which ia r bitfeudal. I, would hc most reassuring m have a friendlyinsurance man in your corner. As all the insurancebrokers char@ the same lor ,his protection, we huy ounfmm Dm Sanhorn Ihccamo he has affiecs ul all bordercitier as well as in tholargsrtomi it, Mexicu.'Sheyalsuhavc ,,rintcd ~ i dsheets e 101 every ru*d thcr.2 in Bcaldctail. These "imw and wliere" shects arc inserted consccutivelyinto a foldzr which contains r map and anexplanation 01 the now international road signs.Shc &o Grande ia their Riu Br*vo - hcrc a momnickle, hecruse up lhir fcrtile valley its water& hrveirrlgaled these manv acros to pmduce a vealllr of fruitand ~egewhi~. As you cross the hnrder the AdaonnandMipaciin will ilirwl you to a parking lane. Asenor will take your bags to an inspection trhle. "penOtem, anrl peer quickly therein. You are perrnilterl lobriny; most zr long a? il is pcnanal - butdon't uy any mrrijaaoa or yudll into r deep, darkgaol forever a,ld ever. Afterthe senor fakes them back.Up him at Isart a peso (80 a bw.The Migraei6n Scior %ill approve the tourist cardaPcrit with your proof oi ~itimn~hip, andanother official will issue ,l,e car permit and affix it tothe inside 01 ,he windshield. Then you are on ,he way,-ding Sanborn signs. dawn the i)ike lor 50 kms rhcrcan Aduana tati ion will inspeel ihc rccsntlypapel-.Now tile tnelric world is hare -md "3 fepc3 a meierhc" and 0°C qua* about r iit-r, 2 pounds almurt a kilobarn) while 50 mph comer out as 80 kilo (mstcnl pcrhour.
On the road11 your Spanish is jusL a fcw words likc nzoGona or.sir&, you had better lcam ihc lhigliway signs to amidgonad" (catlle). Don't ever drivc on ,ole Iligl>wrys atnight. Thc gas htations arc closrrl, old can and irurksare driving without lights, md rnrrchas hirrror and gamdoroam at nlgh, as well as d"""~ the day.Gasoline is a g~vcmmen, monapoly md. thank hcavens,none of that hanky-panky 01 the U.S.A. Tilere aretwo giades of Pemex nor, thc rilvcr hih-lesl andNova. the medium~trst, pricod about 63E and 40e agallon, although sold iy the liter ihrr?, with four litcrralmort equal ,a ono pallon. 'The Dod~c likcrl alternatetankfuls, and we always filled tlw tank whcn il washaliempry - a betar mix and rorne condensed mois-,,$re would he hlcndcd. Sanburn pinpoinca the location"f Pemex and advises of the best frciliticr. When bllying-5. gct out and %retch, and kwp an BY, on the mugeto he sure it's act back to zero.The bighwayi are excdlont, md are moslly lrrhlrnrblacktop: lookuu~ chough when you come tor tuwclthetarmac ends md cabblcs hwin with aiow~ynu-down"dgcs called lapeaif you dan't obey, thc ,up of ynllrliead rill had. Th? parkiuay-tpe is crllsd ihs.nnl,rlu md is around Mcxicu City. Toll roads (cucuotalfcnccd lo kpep rninlrlr from strayine: unlo ~ h? rightd way.Mexiwnsdrive likenlad, mortol the timron noiromemotor-hikes often ladcn wilh a wad of woorl. in tuckslull 01 battans orpizo, and in outobur~r which gn likstho wind, and rinrr ibeir route is hack and lurlh ti>?rrme suetch, thcv how every lhill and rum?. Thcy atupa, lllr most unerpccted placss way ""l in nmv1io.c fora farmer wi,h a goal - it goes on thc mof. Bat, fortunately.thc tractur,railer monster ii ,lit" rarc md unlyreen on main hish,vavr direct Lo th? border.A gree,, Cov?rnnieiit tmck %ill give 1ree scrvic? mdgasoline at cart s dirlress~rl mntoribts ~ncounsrccl onits patrolr. The men spcak En~lirll alld a?? trrincd inFiat-Aid, as well a hheing able mcchanisr.Liriog in trailer parksAn electric h~l-~late med the "free" juice in trailerparks, a,,d r proprnc Cole,,,a,, stove cooked on thebeach. 'The Igloo rhst kept r chunk "1 locml ice, twopsoi worth. for 24.f hotm. ~ Itb foods in liglaly scrlsd~plrstic jugs. Ice, unlcss in r good rpstruran~ or bar, isrispeel becaclre of hrctoria in lita wai~r. Purr wilcr callalways ha had from Cokp.Pep~i.er7.Ui~ botllingplanlswhich ahmind. Any wakr whpn hoilcd ri~ornurly issale. A hathroom heater with fan warmed aur ariringi,?,l,eearly morning.Th~overnight chrwclor tnostof thctrailor parks was 40 perus ($3.20) lor our van. Theirtiled rhowcrj and "Fsuaamr am n, clern and cumnmdiourthat our portable pIsmhing was quite ndcquale.After wc acquired an instant cofl~e-n~aker whichplugged into thc sockct, wr fuond a iinl: usc for the.iga,t,e iihter, ar black coffer: helps to keep the eye.lids up.Buying food and UlinpThp fond supply can br rel~l~nisI~ed at amall groceryr,urei - if r red nw is flying, il mans fresh meat.Gaveinmcnt CLlnaxrur stores offer lowcst priccs, but.,ri,ty is .pa,. s,'p,rmsr
Handicapped Travel Club&i Sam Johm?anOur HandicappcdTravel Club ialess Olrn r year old hutwe have 35 mcmhem in 12 btatpr whose dirahilitierinclude homiplegia, rerebral ~>alsy, and birth dclcca.Red Glarco and 1 iuundcd tho club in August 1973 toshare ihc ihcrapy of RV (rocreations1 yehid?) travelamd lo rssocirte with 0th- disal~lprl who lravriin vans. motor homos, ur irailcrs.Morc than 23 years =go I wra unconscious ior severalmonths due to a corlical conlusiun 1 rustaincd in anautoarcirien,. Evrnlually my voice began to return, hutthen berm thc long, long battle -!nol won ye!, Ihulwhippod down to my sire. Today I muvc abuul quit
~ """Five ycars ago wc an ad for a 22'Winnehagomator hame and office. Within a week we had it and ourtravd problem? were salved. Ws bought an dd Burnshcd ~hieh rc had cut down to a 27" width. While ilrocks with a difforcnr rhyllxm from my Emerson rthome, I am ahle to adjust in a couple of hoam. Ifnccessarv. I cuuld rock ar we roil down thc road byusing our ll0volt gcncm,or"I rreomm~nd this methad of traveling to cucryons.Five of us have iivcd in it lor founeen days o Texas,seventeen days sightseeing in Wa~arhinaon D.C., a ,ripb Florida, fifleen days vibiting relatives in North Dakuta.and many baautilul drys in our Michigan StateParks."My husband is r research chemist a, Dow ChemicalCQ.. and very handy with a hammer (he built our homein his soare timol. HE made the bed recure by buildinaa s,ructure around the base."We have just bought rnother Winncbago motorhomc, rho Chieftain model. 5' longer than the first on=.The mcking bed fits in thospacc whcm thedinette was., illrl hehind the driver's seat. Enlamine the door was the~~"ly change."Write to me if I can be af any funhcr help: Mrs.Mailrice heigle, 908 Cresrent Drive, Midlmd, Michigan48MO."ManufacturersA paraplegic Missourian. Bob McHenry sells a 24fuuttrailer equippod for wheelchain. 11 has a piston-drivenlil~ and wide doorb. Frcc brochum from: McHenryTrailcr & Lift Sales. Pilot Knoh, Missauri 63663.Overcab motor homcs. 19 or 20'length. with clsctril:U.S. Wheelchair GuidebooksA List of Guidebooks for Handiappod Travelers.Available free fmm The Womeii's Cornmittcc,President's Committee on Emgloymenc af thc Hmdicapped.Wa3hington D. C. 20210. The booklet lists theguidcbouks of 85 cities in (lie U. S. as well as ,hose 01citieb in Conada, Australia, and Eumpe.Highway Reat A m Facilities Desiped for Hand.:capped Travelera. List of 330 rost arcas. Frcc fromthc Prcridml'r Commi,,ee (addrerr above).Nationel Park Guide for the Handicapped. 80-page guidc lislr 212 areas of ihc National Park Synem.All hut thifieen are accessible to tho whcclchaircd.Some have special facilitier for the hlind md deaf. 40"frum: Government Printing Office, Washinglon D. C.20402.Motel Lil. 1971 cdition. 50% fmmParal~od Vetcransof Amerira, Inc., 7315 Wirconsin Avenue, Suite 301-W. Washinam, D. C. 20014.The Wheelchair Traveler. Compiled by a paraplc~ic,includes 2WO listings in the U. S.. Canada, andMexico of accnmsoda,ionr. An attractiv~ and inhmativebooNcr. 83 postpaid or plus 55u for airmail frum:Douglrsb H. Annmd. Brli Hill Road, Milford, NewHampshire 03055.AirlinesWheelchair Air Travel. A pockct-~ized book enliv-brochure available.Specialized Travel AgenciesAll "1 ,ha lullowing agencies have free brochure3 describingtheir toun hcrc and abroad lor those who aredisabled, Ark ta be an their mailing lisls.Evcween Travel Semice. Inc., 1942944th Street.Lwwood, Wrsliington 98036.Hmdy-Cap Hori.on~.3250 E. Loreuta Drive, Indianapolis,Indiana 47227.Pan American World Aim. Iarry Chadwell,Sales Caordinator, 1219 Main Streel, Houston, Texas77002.Rambling Tours. Inc.. Box 1304, Hallandale. Florid>"" ??MU uuu-,.Flying Wleels Tours, ludd Jacobson, 148 W.Bridge Str~01. 0wat0nna. MinnmaLa 55060.- Mosr <strong>Rehabilitation</strong> Harpitrl, 12th Streel attd Tah~ Road. r Philadelphia. Pennsylvania 19141, maintainsm informatilln serrice for travelers who arcdisabled.1947. tlc has flown over a niiliion miles to mart parkof the world. $2 from: Mr. Clarc Millar, Box 7. Blair,Cambridge. Ontario, Canada.Airline Tranopormtation lor the Handicepped andmashled. A sutnmary of 22 dnmprtic airlines' policy.National Easter Seal Society for Crippled Children andAdults, 2023 Wcsf OEden Avenue, Chicago. IllinoisW612. 81.25.careage of the Phpially Handicapped on Do-roeatie and lntemtioosl Airlines. Policiei of 35doinpstic and in~er~ational airliner. Also included: expcrirncesof indinduds nnd lour gmups with variousairliner and r summary of su~eslioni. Unitcd CerebralPalsy Associations of New York State, Inc., 815 SecondAvenue. New York. New York 100<strong>17</strong>. $1.25.Air Travder'a Flv-Rizhta. , Free hookl~t from CAB(Civil Aeronautic8 Board) deuils your rights as an airlinepassenger. Request from: CAB Const~mor AffairsOlfic~, 1825 Connertirut Avenue N.W., Washington D.C. 20428. Also reqtiejr infurmalion lrum Ralph Nadpr's
Imly. llalian Suciely for Rchab~litrtiotl ui ihc Disabled,Clirlier Orluj~cdicu r T~aumatolo~icr delia.Usiusrriti di Roma, Rome.Luxembourg. Croir.Rougc. Pam de la Villc. Luxem-1,nurg.Norway. Nonk Rerlnrtiker Forbond. Profersclr Dahlspte32. PO. Rux 5668. 0510 2.Portllgal. Santu Case rle Mirericurdia de Lishoa, Cen~tru dc de ~ ~ ~ b i l ii\icnita.,c ~ d ~ ES~~~~I.,Spin. Fraternidad Cailicr dr Eiifermur. DumiciliuSocial, Montserrat 30, Madrid 8.Sweden. Hsedikappinrfitaet Frrk, 5.161 03. Bromnlr3.SwiLserlend. Arsorirtion Swissc dcs Invalidpa Fro.burgstnsae 4, 46W Oltcn. Also. rkzac Inlpmrvia.wlr, Case Puslala 49, 1012 Lauranne.\i,g,,,c Jack. a reb,,hra,"rs ,>,#Ii,# ,,,,a
~ ~<strong>Rehabilitation</strong> Act of 1973Public Law 93-112Thc R~h~bililafion An of 1973 has trcmcndolxr poten-(6) in$prpr~~r senicci lor thc deaf rnd rmderlid for the scvclrll disal,lpd. It rrquircb both HEWscrvic~i Lor ,he blind:(Department of Hralth. Educaliun. anrl Welfrrcl and(7) new empluymenl opportanifi~r:S B ~o~alior~al~ rrhrhilrtaiion agcncicr lo pmvidr scmirpson r prioritv basis lo "th"i? ,"itl, thr muri revere (8) rchabililaiion r ~rvic~r lor ,be blind:IY~~,I~P~~S. SO ,hat L~CY may I,TP~T.P for md cngnge ill (9) U C ~ U , ~ ~ I ~ C O ~ ~ J ~ I S ~ toole ~ I ~ initialminf~tl emnlovm~ia." . .storks md sooplics:Herr arc lhiyhliphlr nl the Act. If you !have frouhlcandersfrilding how you car, ba,,?fi, bmn this law. "lid?.Scc. 112(r) llte Art pmvidcx lor the estahlishmcnt ul(10) tnnspoflrtion in
~~~~~~Scc.30l(a)lbI(l) Cnnstmetion of rehabilitationfacilities - including initial rblling and planning a r~~~J,B""c.Sec.3OZ(b)(l) Cost 01 training services H E W isaurhorizcd to mrkp cranes (0 SL~LCS and ~ ~ borl i ~i'rnlit argrnila,iunr to pry up ,a W per cpnt of ih? costof vocalional services to sererely lhaiidicapped individ.tuals in rehahilitation iacililies.Se=.30Z.(b)(2)(A) Tses of haining aeryi~ee - oc-'upalional skills, work evaluation arid icsting, prarnsionof luuls and equipmsnl, job lryuuls and rcekly rllnw~ancob to i~~diridurlr rccciuinp, training md relaiprl ren.icesSec303.(a),(c),(dl Mortgage insurance - lor rehahilitation laciliti~s.Sce.3M,.(b) Special projeess and demonatrations-Grants to Strtps and pahlic "r nonproiit or@nizalionsfur ,"dying par, ur all of special pmjrrts, dmlonsirations,and mrcarch la improvp rehabilttationscrvices to those with the most severe handica,a, inrludincrhme wit11 rninal cord iniurirs. older blind andbilitalion service? un a rrxiunal basis, in clod in^ acutecarc as well as followup, rnd to evalua~e melhods oiedurrfing ro,n~nunilirr io Ihc problcmr of housing,~ranrporlatiun, rccrcatian, cmploymcnt, md cnmmunityactivities.Scc.304.(d) Training and emplopent in a d.isfie work aetting.Sec.306.(0 Workahopa rith rpsidential aaeomo.&tion.Scc.405.(a)(5).(h) Central d ~ghoure for infor.mrtion - to include r!irrenl ntlmben of Ihanrlicappedindividuals and lhrir nccds. semres and ipmriams, rererrch,and mcdical md rcienlifi~ dcvclopments. Inhirin~ pcnunncl for the clearisghuusc, empha~sis will be givm Lo qaalilird handicrpp~d individuals.SPC.~OS.(~) Office for the Haodieapped.Sec406.(a).(h) Sheltered workshop study.S~s.501.ta) Emplopenl of handioapped individuals- a. Interagenry Cnmmittpe on HrndicappcdEn,plnye~s, in eoupcra~iun wilh ihc Civil Servic~ Commission.,vill ymuidcr focilr for hiriw. placsmcnl andrdvrncement.S~.502.ia1(1).(2) lnsuringa barrier-free environment- thc ncwly-cstablishcd Architcctuial andTrrnsportation Brrnen Complianr~ Bord x%+ll insurei:omplianre with stmdrrds, investigate alternative ap-~ruachrs lo all IY~PS nf barriers, and pmnlote bie useof the lnrcrnnlianal A~ccssibilitv Symbol.Sec.502.(c1(11.(21 Transportation barriers w i l lIwsludicd bv thc Board. It will consider wavr . in ~ h i ~ h~~travci CXpPtISPI LO and from work cm be Inel or subsidizedand ,.r,blic transporwtion harrien ran he eliminatedant1 ,lrevcnted.Spr.502.(c)(2)@) llonsing needs - the Boarrl willdctorinine wlvnc mcasurpr arr hcingtakpn ~o makc housingavailable and rc~arriblc or to meel rholfered houringneeds.Scc.503.(a),(b) Employment vnder Federal con.traa-m - '-Any contract in exrerr ul $2,5W cntemdill," by any Fprleral department or agency forth? procurcmcntof pononrl pmpcrty and nonpenonal sen.ices (including co%~rlrucliun) iur thc Unitad States shallcontain a pruvirian requiring that, in employing perinns to carry out rllch cun,ract the party contractingwith thr United Statcs shrll take rffirlnative action LOemploy and advance in employment qualiiied handeal'l'edindividuals." If these provisions an not eompkdwiih, an individual may filc a complaint with theDepanment of Labor.Sec5M- Nondiarrimination under F0doral pant8" N o olhcrwise gaaliiicd handicapped individual inIhc United States shrll. iolrly by rearun ui his handicap.h? excluded imm ihs r,anicipation in, be denied thebcncfiis of. orbs subjected to disrriniinaion ,underanyprogram or activin: rrc~iving Federal lirlrncial BSS~S~mce."public LBIV 93.245, s~pp~~m~ntr~ appropnatiunr billsigned by the Prpridprll in Se~l~mbcc, included moretllari $701 i~nlilli~,, lor pmnamaauthonzed hy thp R P ~ ~ ~hllifrtian Act of 1973.ED: Fur a cop). 01 P.L. 93-112, contact your Senator orRcpmsmialivc. L'oi a copy ol HEW'S preliminary repulrrionr implemenling P.L. 93~112. "brain acopy of theFederal Reriskr. - . <strong>Vol</strong>umo 39. Number 103. Anvone .wishing lu cummsnl on thc regulations shmrld write loDr. Andrcw 5. Adrms. Commiriior~er, <strong>Rehabilitation</strong>Services AdminirtmOon. P.O. &Ix 2366. Washington.D.C. 20013.
A Bill of Rights for the DisabledWhanav, the disabled in the United Smcs. c~nalilullng a fin for all lhvae severely disabled pen0818 unable tolaw mminori~ urth a commonality ol "~d and r unity ofenter ,he campctitirc lahm markc,.~ U C P D ioek ~ ~ , only to nhtain for lhrmadvea what all Amrri~ Hno~ing - 8.cans hriirvr to be (heir binhnght - lifr. lihrrq and theThat na~ionwide and local prwramn of special housingpumuil of happinnr; andfor ihedisnblod bcosiablirhcd to pprrnil thomnn oy~~or-Whmm, impediments and madblocks of cvary nature areiuniq to livr in di~nity and rraaunahle codon.lo be found at NCT hand, rffertiv~iy prrvenlin~ the fulfill- hhitectural Bsrriva - 9.01 lik'~ for r irwe proportion of thr dirahlid; That frdrral. rum and Inca1 lrrialaturzr vaas laws rr~andc,uinne. rho elimination 01 rrchitectlin~ harecn toWIIIII, the Arnstican propie. lmlr thmugh lack nf building, rc~r~ationsl. ~uitvml and rorial i~rililieandknnwled~cand miaidormation havenot as yetmcngnilrd Ihepublic p1ace.l. Such Icgiilaliun should incltido architerdisabledrsfellow human M ~~wlnlh a handicay lo whioh alltvral standanls for all new rannruaiun.should mak* romr a.l-"mmuda,ion, and who dcrcrvr equal hhit~eroral - 10.ooponunity ci,izens; and 'That fedenl. su,e, rnd local 1"gisiriian be plssod eatab-Whemhehe, thcCongns oltheUniladStnes md the lwirla-iishiny; standards and a icasonahlr time fnr modificationlures of the various stafcr, covntirs and municipaliiic, haveof crirting sidewalks. baildings and ssuclures for thonot as by lyal means. made it pobiiblrfor ihr disabledromlvnablc use of the handi~apprd.penon to attain """a1 acca. i" hose benefit8 "I life enjnreli Transportation - 11.by the abiebodied, be it rrsolved: That FVFV ~nmmunity. county or 0th~~ lkgally cunsti-,"led au,h"rily atablirh programsandslandardr lor ibHealth - 1.rr~stinn "I rrccial ,r.nrportation hr the dirabled in-Tha~ aU disabled prnona he afforded ihr vpporlunitrrluding mdificrlivn olerialing maaa ~ranspor(ilionsyshrIUI ad comprehcnrivc diaynuslic. theraprutic, re. toms and tilp d.ve~opmnnt 01 S~FI~~II~ nrrignrdhrbilitativc and follow-up senico% in the nation's horpi-drmand~achrdula lranrpvrraUon farrlilirr.lair, and rrhahiliutivn renter. *thou, *e%ard to incomr ~ ~ i - 12. ~ t ~ . ~ ~ ~nce. reliion, economicslatus. ethnic origin.8ex.w~ orTha~ rvrry dmahled pemon who bewuso of the nnurorncial condition.nf his handicap is vnahlc tn hr sclhruppminp, hr~ivcnKulUl- 2.a guaranteed minimum income not below eslabliahed~h.t dl ailahled per.onr rrquinn. same bc @"en and federal rlandaidr adrquat~ to livein . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~,rained lo urc such onholic. pmsthc,,c nr =daylive dc-and in dignity.vices that rill enable them t" h.om. more mohilc and Imtitutiod are - 13.lo live moro comforiahiy.That irderal. stat. and lnrai laws hc cnactcd far theFduration - 3.hrnafi, "1 ,he dlarblrd cunlinrd to any form of institu-Tllat all disabled vmoss be givrn every opporlunify for mimmam "f houring. Fonvr"~formal edurabon s ,he level of which thrv ire wprbleienres, romlor~ atall and srivicea.a the degrer ta which they rapire.Cid Rights - I&Emplopem - 4.That .?el righ* irgisiation, national zlnd local. beTba all disnhld vnona. lo the ertont ncceliarr. haveamended lo inciude disrbiliiy as onc of ihr ~alwories,hc vpp"rt"nil" to recrivc special waining comm"nr"~ agnin., which discrimination ia unirwiul.ma with residual ahi1iti.a in lhase arpc~ts of life in ~.*j,,jj - 15,,"hid7 ,hey are handirrpprd. so 0,n ,hey may achirvc 'That 1cAe.d and *a,* lax-supponod ,7rogramr "1 train-,he potential for rn,ry iilrn the lahnr mark*, in compoti- ing be earb1irh.d to prrparc prokssionai and non-proti""rmp1oyment.Qssional perlvnnrl for work with the 1,andicappd inE"tp1opcnt - 5.the fields of hralth, education, rerrelli"" rnd weliar
A Bill of Rights for the Handicapped"A Bill of %hfs for he Handicapped" uhl presented at hc infancy, bmrdiakr and continuinsfamily @id-United Grehrai Pahy hsociatian's Annual Gnfernnco inance, and comprohonsive hahilirative semi
MilestonesSuecessfd Class Action SuitAttorncy Jcffrcy H. Friedmm. with ProfessnrOvid C. Lmvir d ihc Cssr Western ReserveaKrr?d Lo inslilll rampsrailicolirl Ih""~?irndwcliaip lhaildinkrlli Kllard hlnhrr irrwd fhal all b1ri1dini.s orvncd oropl.l;~ic,i by it md conrlrllcfed in thc lularr
Fcderrl fi#ndi arc acucrriblc. Fulth-r, thp Serrewry,~ ~ ~ ~~~h~~ ~ ~ i ~shall rrrj~~irr ihrt any hub or 0th~" ~ollit~g slnrk OTatrliun or prrset>gerloadit~gar~a lllinr Lillcrnl lundr bcacccrsihl?.RightsHandicapped Persona:An Oppressed Minority- -"ACivil Rights 'cunreioart~rr~' in handicapper1 individ~uais has hccn slow to rirc." wriler Dr. Pstd I . Curcuranin m ~ditorial in dl? Sppremher 1973 issaeaf Arhiuero/ Phyyricnl Medicine und Rrhobiliuzrion.Prcsidpnt loh,,son's 1'%5 Exccutirc Ordcr lameddisrriminrtion on the basis af race, CDIDT, relison or~~rzio$~al origirt. Preiidrr~t Nixon's 1968 amcnclmeniaddnd scr to ths list."Tonrcioasnesr doe6 not just rise." writrb Dr. Car-"orat,. 'il!nost 11% miaed hy i h leaders ~ 01 li$eopilr~rr~rlproup. . . . Rehrhiiitrtian prmnders md colisllnlorstogether shn$dd prris for a ln-n Exaillive Onlpr adding'~~liysical lhandicala' LO (he ullicinl list of proccad minoritycatsgarios."The Bill of Rights Meant Everybody... rile ICK~I pnncipie"111 likr Lo rack my Rirhls as cnumerrtrd ii~ the U.S.Conrtih~tion. Civil Rishfr . lecirlrtinn . will asair, in somecnforccm~nl. IhzI shouldn't lvrvc bcen npccssary. TheBi-C~iltennial in '76 nliehl bc a eood times swlt overnn all ihc pmlnirer and passihililicr Alnenrr has toaffor." France H. Inwder. Exscutive Director, GrtprSvrl Sociciy of Cprro Gurdo Co,i,~$~, Iowa.is ~ ~ ~ paup~c ~ have d i ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ d8 natttral right to share lllr brnrlirs and the respansibiliti."1 p.,i.iv.,i. in saciety. . .,I,?Rill "1 RiKhazmrinl rvsrybudy, and not just ,hose -ilh prrlcctly luncliuniwbodics and minds." Edwin W. Martin. Jr.. PhD.Ihr Ercrpzio,rio,~ul Pc~rpnr. MarchIApril 1973.Abroad in the Land:Legal Strategies to Effectuate theRights of the Physically Disablednz? Ccrr#?io,an L~ur Jouirlightpeing rrliclr 18, All" Gaiiir and Kcilh M. Ser~man. Krl,rinis arc availahlo lruc fmm the Proridcnt'rComlnitter on Enlpioyment of the Handicapped (Wrahin@",,.D.C. 20210)"11 is n n ~ ~ n l ibnppraUur." ~ ~ l ~ s l11r nu~hurr cot~elude."for t1,c hr,,dicappcd ia cantinue to loru5 efforts onCnngresa md t h stat? ~ legislaf~r~~. LPgislafi~n ~n~~8ringllir 1.igl115 01 111~ iha~~dicai~~~d lvo~~ld b~ ll?~ mustunilurln and far ,?aching ~"lllli"" to thc pmhlcms ,,rusc,,tcd.Thc inclusion ol the handicapped nnonF t1,a.eprotected liy he Civil Rights Act of 19M is ilv ,nostdriirahl~ s~lc#li~#>(18) the l~deral ~CVT~."Attitudinal Barriers''1~'~ time wc rprowizcd ,ha stitiemalizing puhlir alfi~n~dc~ are rs much of a handicap as actual physical,liirbilitics ars. And it's timc wr did samclhing abuulit."SLlmping nu, rtign,a won't bc easy, taking into rccnx~nttllr decply-enirenchsd processus ibat Lcsl italive. But you rmit on thcse fmnts: . Rccomcyour nun onc-p?rson public relatioris department. 'Eststablirll r linc 01 communication nith as #man" peopleas porsihlr. . Don't bc afraid to associrtc wi,h othcrdirablrd. . Dcvcloll tix? yrcalest assct ul all in hulnrnrelatianspa sense "1 llllmor.. Conrtmtly wpk intcgrau,.into tilc mainitream of rocicty. - Assume a lkrdcrship role in commut1ity afi.,iri."Whcn you fight again* rti~ma far yoan~lf.ihelping in the haul? far all ulh~r dimhled." larsrHayrond. Dor 212. Buford. G~omia 30518. (Jan?. disabledhi Fri~droich'. alaxia. has an M.A. is anthmrloin-Pending LegislationDevelopmental Disabilities ActExtensionPannls ill hnth the US. lluuse 01 Reproscnlalives andthe U.S. Senale ihrve recontly intrudur~d seprratc extensionsof thc Derelop!n~nel Disabiiilies Art (H.R.1421215 and S. 3378). A "dev~lopmental disability" isdcfinrd. and~r the cunont la* (Pablir Law 91.5<strong>17</strong>). as:'a disability aliributable to msnlal r~tardrtion. ccre~brnl palsy, epilepsy. ur inolher neurolopical conditian01 an individ~ial found b~ thr Serrerrry to bc rlux~lyrelated to merllal r~frrdrtian or lo rpquire lroalme~llsilnilrr to that rrcl~#ir~d lor mentally retarded individorlr.whirh dis,bili,y "rigillal~s hdam such in.iividurl.,&in, a#e rightem, which has calltinuod or can h?expected Lo continue indefini,rlv r,,d which conslilulera nli~stmrirl PdsJicap to such individurl."TIlc S~sate prapoial incl~dm autism md lcarningdisrhilin in i ~r def~nition: it rlsu ~ ~ ~ ~ r a"Bill i nofrKigha" for thc mcnlally retarded md other individualsdpvelopmcntrl disabililier.
Coalitions ofime disrhld may ev?nf"ally organize into a 'militant'group and creak a real social movemcn, which willattcmpt to impobe another image of man, t1irt af r manwithr diaahility, on an equal hasir with allotheracceptableimages ol man," wrote Contantina Ssuilios-Ruthschildin 1970 in Sociolo&y and Social Psycholoryol Dxrolilhr and Rehsbiliralion, The r~tlthur comparesthc oilom 01 thc disnblcd ~ith those 01 the mililantblrckb md all ather minority pups which have beandircriminatal again31 for ro long. She explains aome a1the fur the delays in creating a inrial move-,"t may of the lcadors hnvn s"~~JJ~"UY"pass~c~ into dl* ranks of the "an-disabled: differentcategories 01 the disabled have diflerent pmbiemr:many with i"68ihle disahiliti~s nmor acccpt thc ideathat thpv are disabled: athers over-accent the disabl~didea and day it to the 1,ilt. The ruccesrful leaden, shesmtes, i ill bc thasc who acccpl their physical limitationsbut uae their remaining rbilitieb to fulfill theirr~sponsil~ilitie to the fuil~st pxtrnt posrihlc.Such leadcrs mi pressure pups are gradually emergingall over the world. The lint were in England ncarly ten"oar8 ago, the late Mrs. Mwan Du Boisron md MR.Berit Moorc, who founded the Disabled Income GraupIDIGI in 1%~. two ~ O ~ ~ S C W both ~ Y disabled ~ . hv11 11111,.1. ..I., . .. X.111.11.r D ! 1, 11 l 111.1 . 1. 111,I, .I1 J.~, ,, I.,, ,,I. r*,,r
capped (COPH) in Manchesi~r. New Hampshire. Thegrollpr wcn: joined by thc Maraachusertr Cuuncil "fO~aniutionr ol the Hrndicappcd, a reginnrl coalitionengendered by the Ma3aach"senr kisociation of Paraplsyics.Latcr, support war exprerrpd hy pups around'h? roun,ry.Mean~~llile on the West Coast, r number of groupshad bwn caa1itionr: firs,. ,he Wer,em Disabled Alliance(Box 444, Sm Lorenzo. California 94580): tlien,he Center for lt>drpendent Living (2825 Hastr Street,Berkeley. California 94761.): md recently, thc cum mil^tce far tho Rights of the Disahl~d (2992 Wcst Pic"Boulevard. Lar Anfielea, California W006) and theCalifurniaArroriation of the Physirally Ilandicapped. Inr.(Box 2255'2. Sacramento. r~liflifornir 95831).Finally, during thc <strong>1974</strong> annual nl~~ung of thePresidenl(3 cr,mminoc on Employmon, "1 the Handicapped,a meeting wrb hcld for the purpozc "1 crpatinfi~lionrl coalition of organhations and individuals ofa d for ,he dilahled. The m?eling, modcrr,ed by kawcConn, was attcnded by <strong>17</strong>2 pcnunr repr~ientin~ everymajor group of the durabl~rl and of ths group. thatconcern thsmselv~a =
Arrociatc Mcmhsr shall b? rnlilled to participatein tho pmprams of the Cualilius. hat shall not beentitled to delepte reprosontation. Initially ducslhr an Arsuciata Member sliall be 51W.W at~naal~I".Individual Memhrr. Lndiridual Mcmbcrs shallhe natural persons who are interested in ruppartingthe work 01 the coa~ition. A. lndividurl ME^.ber shall he entilled to r~preseot~lian on tileDdcmio Council. Initially ducr lor lrtdividualMemhem will he J5.W annuallyThusc who wish mure infurmatiun, or wirh loexpress an npinia,, ar ~ive a su~rbtion, pleascsend your ,mark% to: American Coalition of Citi~zns with Dirrhilities. c/o Centor for ConccrncdEnan~ering. 1224 DuPont Cirde Building, Wa~ashinrlon.D.C. 20336.In CanadaA National Conferpnce of the Physically Dirabicd was~onvcncd hy thc CInadian Rehabilitalio~l CnuncB forthe Dirrhled (CRCD) Novcmbcr 4,7. 1973. The event.the first nf its kind an such a major scalc in NorthAmerica, look place at the Park PI- Hotel in'ruruntu.The 65 delcgatcr. rcprrrcnling every proulnce. exploredcommon problems in thc arcas ol housing. frmaponalion,edaca~ion, linancial security, culturc andrecrratiaa, and rocial ascusibiliiy. The real work of theConference took pirce in th~ seminar ses,ionr, wherethe dp~gatpr analyr~d thesefurmu~atedrccommendatiunr and resol#ltio~is. Her? am th, high-1ig1,w:H~uainp a govcrnmenl hranch to he eswhlished todcrl with legislation concerning ll,e handirrpped:Visiting Homemaker Services to heLAX~ ~ ~ to dbci a fur ll~r coifs of revisions foraccersibiliv to public huilBings, hurinrrr and privateresidences: 10% of all ncw mu1,ipir iouring projccwLo be designpd for thp hmdicrppcd: hullrillg andscrvicrr to hc decenlrali~~d so peoplo can rcmain intheir eammunitieb: rrchituctaml schuul. L" incurpuraleihr needs ol the disabled.Education: common lar,urj invulved is ,heashisvsmcnts of successlui rlirabled inbereierrchcd:nrohlcms of handica~,i,cd ..adulcssenl~ lo hp ronridmod;clrsrmoma to hr intcwtud: cqual uppuil#lnilierto he provided: tests ta hc adipted to disabilities;rlircrinlinario~i to IIP nrohibited in the Bill of Richtsand in provincial hnman rieht, cudsr.Knoiuiul S,:i'riiy: alloiv a $1000 thy exemption tntllns? whose dinhilily increases thcir cost of livinx;a disability pcnsiun to be set for all disrhlpd, ~ i t h ~ ~ ~ tr means test, and tn continue whelher mmployed ornul; rpenriun lo be licd to rhc cost-of-li~ing index.Soc;ai Accerrihiliiy: crtrhlish n lohhylng hod) irithinthc national capital ta repreient dire~lly thp need? ofthe disrhled.Tranrpoitoiion: prrallrl r~rvicer lo he imglcmmleduntil, and nnly tnillil. a ~otally isc~ratcd systcm iravailable; all existing transportation la be coodinated.Defin~tion of Dizabfed: "A di~rbled person ir a hummbeing who through direasp. illsr~s, rungcnilalcondi,iun or ,railmatic cxpcncnce, is impmrd infunctioningin on* or more areas of daily iivinr Thisfh?~ctiosal impairn~rnl satam ~~nusual and undue dcpendsncyononcor mareather lhi~mrn b~ings andlormechanical devices."The rciolttlionaar? prirllzd in lull in ihc Fall/Wintcr1973~74 issue of Kehobilita"on Dipert (750 per ropyfrom: CRCD, 2nd floor, 242 51. George S~ren.llrunlu,Ontario MSR 2N5).ED: Cu
Law Student"I lhnvr laan r C56quadaincc 1970, rhenan automa- "I and many othcrs knew my low score was notbilc rccidcnt intcrrupicd my pirnr to hegin my junior rcprwcntrtire of my int~llerlurl ahilily. I att~myiedyear of mllege.r~~rsanrlly 10 ~ emore t leaf lime allultsd a myscil so"Sinre SPIFILCT 01 1971 I haw hccn rltcndine that 1 ool Apliiudc T~sf (ISAT)scora. This tcbt is givcn cxclosively by the EducationalT~sting Service (Em). Mobf law ~rhonls USP ll?ii lolirhour ,?St score along with grrdps and rre"n,i,la,,da,i"nslii~ir lhic.kix>g, 1 rent lcilsrs lo all ihc law ichaaii in thpUS. icllin~ them af the problem physically disrbicdstutl~r~ti haw taking lllr LSAS. Wr rcccired mmy fa.v~rdblc rsplies and lhcsa rnme p~opl~ also iurote loEm. Because of thir. ETS will n
James Lrr Sni~.~~I,~af~~. r lhhnrian "1 a liirri-\rai hn~pial rrixuul ~P.I~IYThe Library ProfessionThe librani profusion has an c~cellenf record ol hiringqualilied pemons who arv disahlcd, according to a recentsuncy d American libraries hy the President'sCommittee on Employment of tile Handicapped. Theruney indicates that pemnns with serehral arewarking as catdogom, rehrencl: librarians, and rlerh.Pemons ~ h are o deaf and ded-mutcr are employe
I am rceurtomerl l" working alone, so am not bothsrsdby ilir many solilary task of the jnil: y-1 1 verymuch elljoy the frequent i,,tenr,ion with faculty andrlud~nis.A~~CEBS: Tamer Lre Sulenhcrgei. 1935 South Park.Springfield. Illinaii 62704-R. Brantley Cagle, Jr.MY lufure took shape in 1951 whsn I cntorcd a s~,scialfor ihc urlhupcdically disabled at Hamilton El-~rnenlaq School. Aftrrzir bng yparsof academic trainingmdrignroor houm "1 rpcsch and thenpy,I ellrolled in hiKh school in the fall of 1957. This wara sixnificant step h~rause I was pa, inloan cnvironmcntw1,r.e I was a cnnrpirllollr minurity.L 1961 1 enrullrd in M~Nscsc State Cnll~ge. I ~n~wed ih? uurricl>lum of social studk and later changnl," history. I maintained permanent riatus an thep~psidpnt'~ honor dl. was sclocted ai Pi Krp Srholar.re~civcd n scholanhip and a vocational rshabilililiungranl. Sincc the Huey Long guherna~urial campaign of1924, memherp of my Family havc bcen deeply involvedin Lmzisirnr plifiii. 1 received my R.A. rum buds in1965; 1 tomod down r Tulane law schalanliip andentered Louisiana Stale Uniucnity p~duati rrhool.Two ycam lafsr, I received an M.A. in history *nth ain library scieuce. mils attcndingL.S.11.. I waslo Phi Kappa Phi, honorary scholaslic: society.and Phi Alpha Theta. honorzry history Iratcmiiy.1" the fall of 1967. 1 was appaillted Documen* Librarianat McNee~ Sldk Univcrpity. and am presentlyherd of this department. In my duties I face iwo "lainproi~lrmr: the inability to mite legibly and a di~tinctivcZ ~ C C L impediment. ~ ~~pecially whsn mocringpeoplelarthe era time. My ~1itin8 has been suppl~rnmt~d byseven student aides and one g~aduate isrialanr. In ihcbeginning, communication was n iprublcm, but contin-U C ~pcoch therapy helped to minimize this difficulty.A ~i~"ifi"~"l pa* of my time is spen, with ductoraleandirialca in cvalurting and detcrmininp thc rvrilabili-<strong>17</strong> of primary researrh malnial. Their ronf~renrr, con^sin, of 1o.g. complex dircusaions. which rcquiremarimum clarity of s,,~cG~.To lnininiir~ ,,rohlcms in comm,,nicali"ns. I havcdeveloppd a documcntr rerearch rsqucst lorm Thisrequest form requires a studcntto giver writtpn explanation ol his m~a,ch prohlem.This service p~rmi,~ meto dev"t8 more time ro sruden, requers, and makcsmaterial3 more iccesrihle lo ,he camnur . population~d,,rir,e my off-duty I,o.,rs.In 1972. I married Lotur McGee. a polio victim. Sheis a ,peed, pathologirt for ihr Calcasicu Parish Schoolhard. A\ ~hc present time I am on r iahhaticrl ipaveand am punuing a Ma9tcr's d c p in ~ Library Sciensea, illr Crthalicilniv~rpity ulAmcrica. We plantn returnto our home md jobs irt January, 1975.As r part "1 my graduaa stud". I r~ret.,ly coniplctodr rlir~~t~dsL,,
Graphology trainingThcrvarr b:ullieiulgmpl~ology a\ C~rn,asa~?d Aurtri-Graphologyby hon-lourr Rcm,m univcrritier and u Swiss n.minar afliliatcd with thcUniv~rriiy nf Zuricli. TIF only Frcnch mstrurtion mnsistr"1 1,riua,e inrlrllcll"ll and mrrrri~nn,let\l:r cuarscr.Those inrcrcried should wri~r 10 rilhcr M. M. Mvvvr.2,irw d~ Grand-Bureau, 1227 Gcl$vc (SucdtE Suissr drGrallllulugir). nr io Mrs. P?rron. 105 avenue dltrlir.Excerplprl fromlh? Freienrh edi-75 Paris 13c (SuciitL: dc Cml~hologir).li"" "1 Rehubiiiruri"" Gryrhirtrrwritinp. Writing 1,nr hrsn dciir1cd as "r~if-r~gist~ringmd ,'a~'llornrlyiii.heha\,inr." The graphologist tries with the help uf thisbchariur to undsrsend how like tllinkiiig and feeling ofth~ suhjert cm he, ivhicii has bepn carrind an rincr rampmio tllal want to put thr ri.h, I'""r"" ill ii>?rigllf1622.,>lar~ fhc C~~II,,~PPS hut lhmdrntin~ c~yrrfaGrapholog). had rrollbed my curiosit" hcfurr golio arr. tlr~ri ill nirny fields. Thrrr are yntiilg ppoplo rhoil,trrrllp~~,~ rtlldipj at riftepn. nxe crpcri-BCC~ rllul8l ~IIP choice of r spairc. rvarr18ls lhelcnccs pxpaxd ms rumrllow iur my llllli.~ profersian: worry, rouples who srck reronciliatinn. rduls ,rill,I devplnopd r lhrbii of abscmine ., oconlc , and ~Liser. ol ma, ,lrobl~n,a. 1\11 cm, find in llli? "L>je"ll"e ~"I~~cII1i,iskin;a13,1 coml,aring. VI~I, I reah r lot. cramincd 01 hrndwrilillg analysis m "pportunitr l" rrll~fillemuch handwriliny;, and hcnrfiled ln,st the experience ,I,P,,~sP~,.P~.of omctitioncrr rho etzidcd mr. I'ricndr of mine. rmr- In my car", ,hprp is "0 lack of ",,~"rL",,il? alld it iste~sra md professionals. lhrd thc smmc intcrrnr rsci have pnsslhlo to rari, a livirlg. One rru work lor srwrrlbccn mec,ing a, nly place inr many ycrrs l" sham "rganirrfions or juin d large organization. For m).s~ll.studics md cxersirm. I lerrllrn lhor lo form my views I PIP^ f" remain. indcpsnde.i.toideas. and la eanlrul inl~rpr~la.tio,,s. One must rcarun, eriticirr, ~valarte, bit. and fez1,,ruloundIy.Graphology as a hobbyAs an avocation, graphology i~ a ~n?ans of cnrin~e!llrlld joy that is rvrilahlc iu anybuBy. Fur (I,? disrbicd.it is a,, ~~rrll~lll lllerlls of prrtlciprung in lifc *,,,I inhlstor, lbi rnaly,.ing the writing of famoos per^SonrpPS. Tbc rrork is rccu,n,,lirhed iil Ill? ,mind so thr,cvcn ,111. I,,"*, rrvpr9ly disabled cm c*rrr, pllllollndrrtisfrction.If my readem ol thc Gazerre >*as, llluie i.lonnrtion.Sli lie glad in furnish if. Wr~tc to: lean-Louis Hinrl. 10Vill~r~urc, 1207 Crscrr. Sui?,.e~lmd.U): nlero'. 8 nnr paperback is llle iicld ni siapholugy:Gmphoni~rop~vilrr bi Pou dr Sainlr Cvlvn!l>r (PopularLibrary. 51.25). 'l'hc author, who lviuneeird ymandpnlciltilernpv at ihc SnrLunne cs 1929.30 with Dr. Pier* Jrmcl, anemin"", phyririas alld prjri,olorin. bmuzll, ill" lecllniqur i",m~ri"a in Lwl whn, I," rmul~od rmm Paris tn Ho1l"w"ud.Calilumi;~. Time book is hasirally a rvlmrrr is graplloloe).i,,"l,,dinpa rulvoy "i ia oaes, so,"" imprrssi." rasr hissriri.and a r".,pr"h~nrii.r nlanllalol frrhnlqvr. cur lllr Ihe@nncr.
~ ~~Public Information/Librarianby J,Uh RidIn re-reading lart yeark Rehnbi&mtion GCY~~,I I p till do the Center newrleiler, romc toan, and prenimpressed by the testimonials to human reZilicnce by releases. I aLro have hd the chance to do samc TVthe men and who samchow madp themsclves lit commercials fnrshcltcmd workshops, an intorvier-Vpcinto an alien world. Mine is thestory ofi man hrlf.way film on for an inrurancc cumpany, writeout. and "airate r play some talcnc sl~aws, and serve asLet me caprulize ten ycan inla a parapaph. While anannouncer for arqional wheelchair basketball lour-I was edilor of the D i ~ ~ ~ d ,he b ~ studmt ~ k , daily nunent. Working seems far easi~r than lindiny a viabl~newspaper 01 the University 01 Maryland. I broks my living ar~~~gem~nt,but T'm more lhan lhallway nut.".a in an auto accident, From a Big Man On !hmpur Address: Tack Prial, Librarian, Maryland Rchabilitr1 was ~ransmogrified into C5.6 quadripl+~ 1 !hen tian Ccnt~r. 2301 Amonne Drive. Baltimore, Marylandformed my spirit into an image of my budy. Paralyzed. 21218.Aller years a1 ~eIFisdation with the curresponding cycle~of lea?, fmsmtion. nye, derpondency, dependence,and cynicism - all hclped hy my lriendlyneiyhharhood custudial hospital - I have beg"" tosmrme.Since February. 1973. 1 have bccn working as assistpublicinlormatian officer at the Maryland Rohabil~itation Center. Onc of eieh, such comprelrenrivc .facilities in ,he U.S.. thc Cpnter is dc~igned to cvaluate Executiveand train 450clicnlsatatimc. olev~ry disability-.pup.DirectorM" job eonaiitr handbook fmnW clients,giving m oreariond slid
11,r Iowa Civil Righlj Coslt?!ission, r member 01 theGovcmui's Commiticc on Employment oi ihc llandicapped.and of CORE (Commission on Standards mdArrr~diwtion n! ihp Coirncil ne Rphai,ilitaltnn Etlucd~lion).Her mcmbenhipi are lkgion. A f ~ inrlude: w NationalRehahilitation Association. Associalion !or RptadprlChildren. Community Manning Council. Arcs II DrvelLopmcntal Disnhilitics Commitrcc. council "r SocialAg~ncies. Unitpd Fund. F.r~rm~niral Rpligion for RotardcdChildren and Adullr, Head Slarl Program, Womenof the Moosc, Vm Auxiliary, Catholic Dnughten ofAnlerirr. NAPR. COPH. and Business md PmicsrionalWomzn'r Club.Hnnie rddrrsi: Fran Lowder. 41R 2nd Sueci, N.W..Marun City. Iowa 50401Wake-Up Service'Twin alarm clocks and a radio arevilal 10 the wcll.hoinEof Rarc Irene Dore - ~ill,"ill tll~m, ih" w~llldn~t beill b"lill?l~. Rwa condacts a rvake-up service frnm herhome, slarting her dry at2:30a.~1~. whsnrhcmakcs hcrlint crll to r newspaper roiilr driusi.Errh morning sine* 1901. Rare ha. "lad? her wrkc-other pumuits. She enrr~rpnndr with boh blind andsighted people rru,,nd the coizntry by means "f tape=.Addrcrr: Rosc Daro. 913 E. 140 Street. Clcveirnd,Ohio 44110. Phone: (216) 761-7419.Christmas Card ArtistBarbara I.nng, a respiratory polia quad sincc 1952, isa rclf-laorht artist. She hr~rn- . orintine - in 1958 and haswarkcd since then e develop her unique inkmd bmrh~~cht~iqu~. A mcmber af art and prolasional gmapr it,Tsras, she tlrr had r~verrl solo bows. Sincc 1970, shehas bccn sucuesrlully marketing lwi Christmra cardsal,d notes nation~~de. For a lrcc illustrated brorhur?.writ0 s Barbara a, 512 West Gonzales Street. Yoakum.Tpxar 77995.Ocher muulhrdck artists will be intcrostcd lo knowthat Barbara dncs nu, are r Axed mnuth~iece to holdher bruslier and pencils. "It inhibit3 (he movemcnl ofmy brush," she rays. "1, is r bit hard on thc handleaof my brilrhcs, as my teeth areas bad rsa berveis aboutrlh~wing away at the wood, but I lhavp my aide ron thehanlllh"! my 1,rushcs with liquid mhbcr or wrap themwith plastic tape."men and ",om?".Althoa~l all arc lamiliar with her cheery. "Good'"~ming, time l" Ket up,-' Icw. il any, realize rile isdisablcd with rheumatoid arthritis. Hamcbuund LTcrrinc? shpatllferrd a fall when rhe war a child, Rose hasncvcr s~mn any 01 hcr subsc:riLerr. She has lheen hlinrllor 27 ol hcr 50 "cars.She knows whom to crll - rnd rvhen - by miligeniuui rnelhad of taping the rubscril~er's lint callwhcn hc ~ivos his namc. addrcss. phone nunlber, andwake-up time. Alter the lint taping, she momourcs allthe fnrts. When lher first alarm slui go?% off (thesocand clock is r back-up). sho turns un her radio ,"kpep hpneil awake. TIIPO. uaing Ih~r left thumb, shorlarlr dialing l1er firs, call from the phone *,I.iiich rests"". . ilrr . h"ri ..Tl,e wlkr-up service idpa was rugpted to hcr by alriend who fin, reidabull, ili,, aBlaillemrgvine. Raaes,artcd by scnding tspcd Icttcrs e other blind p?"llleamlind thc colln,iv who succcssfoll~ ~. onernled sllcll asenice, rnd advpnising lor rulirrrihem.A euan,y nurse colnei daily to look aftelram" of hcrnenlr, and, belors rhr leaves, rhc srls Rose's CIOC~B.Anold friend md pmciical nurso helps by doing ochernccesrary rhorrr, pl,,s the hookkeeping rrraciatccl wi,h,he wake-op ssrvicc.Although Rose has r grain118 bushcss.rl>r has
Hrhrllilltlilnil iall,,iel"r raa1 \,ill",l Lsurl "1 ,I" u,l,rr curpomir.irhrhiiltiiioil prnpli,,, ,,LC JM'i and er:; ml,,,.rorrr,'1lli~1,11 lI1eellll~. ihili" "i,lir1leii llllllil lrller"., ill ,PC V'".Fa"'.<strong>Rehabilitation</strong> at 3Millness. on or 011 the joh."Thcic is n large ynriiun 01 people who become iniurcdor ill who will not br rchahilitatcd." Ashton says.',but the prohlom is to find t1,oie who mn bc."Ashiot~, whoie department covers 45.m 3M employeesaround the United Slates, workr closely withthe curnpany's prmunnel, rmpluymcnt, medical, andinruranrr depnmenls. Hc alsu E""s"~,J "lllrid~ ape".cics such ar thc Stat" voca"on1 mhabilitation agenciesand the Vetprani Administration."Rehahililaliun." Ashtun states, "is no, jus~ puttinga porson into another job, hiit into r job in whirh hecan workrt top capacity inlinp with his intprests. It hasto be r job liurl be., mrns a prrsuo'r emofinnal andmcnlal nccdr as roll as onc in which thc pcnun ~ro-dures to satisfy the employer's ,l?*dii'Somc cises are tnore easily sulvd than O~~PR. EdJungbaucr. an electronics tcchnicinn in 3M'r audio1PI^ sclerosis meant leaving her job as an exreptionallyfrat tvpist. Asllton was able lo placc hor in a switch.hoard op?rzt"r'r job, in rhi~h ahc user r modem, kcypulseconsole tu hnndlc the steady str~am "1 in-camingcalls.In Jim Hiii'r care, both a dillcmnt job md addilionalVaining werz necdcd. He hrd heen an order fillcr in3M.s ufficcsupply services. a position which was ink^ruptpd hii?" his backwas broken and hie legs paralyzedin m aulumobilo accident in 1969. Afar icauiw thehaspiml, Jim was rbic lo rct around with the help 01 ahrace un his rieht lex and rrutrhea. l'hc Minnesota. .ready ;o innk lor a job. The slate DYR contacted 3M.bpenonnel depaflmen,, and a position was found for hima, a machini~r.Them are moral as well ar bainew reasons for goingUI a full-time. staffed operalion rather than refemngrohrbilifafion counseling s ourride agencies or dealingunth craps on m "as need~d" basis. Jim Kccly, mawcrof penonn~l services, explains,"Wc havo a responsihilitybascd on our management philosophy that 3M isPPOPIP. Primarily, we are intamled in mceting humanneeds." F~om a businezs standpoint, Kcely adds. "Wecmn't acclrrafcly measurethe saving of rehabilitalinganemployee hut we do know that it may take from r few10 many thousands of dollars to replace m employee.dcpcnding upon (lie investment the Company has in histraining and knowledge.''"Bpfore the pmogam was set up and Paul Aahronioined us." raid Kcclv. "wr were ou,,inr out lires.1 . 1 , l I . ,,,. 1 I . 111.111 111 Illclr. ,111.,;,..I, I , I,',,.. r. ,,,it', 1",1. .I,,., i,,,.,I,.,. >,.,,.I ,,I, i. ..
University Instructor<strong>Polio</strong> sul Dick Jaskria'r cducatiun shon during his rFrondycar of high sc1,ool. "I spent the next an ).aarstrying to discover wlrrt 1 sigh, ,lo with my life," saysDick. "Art and litemturo sustained mc thr~ugh liiospcomparrtive1y dry yean I averaged five ,a rcn buakr aweek fur $eye" years."When Dick decided ho rantcd to ru tu college at~dhccurne a teacller 01 lircraL,~rp. lip ran in9 a wall 01skcplicism b~~aurc he was 4 quadriplegis. d~p~nde~tupon r respirator. "Finally, I infcresfod local schal.amhip gruup in my arnhitior~r," says Dirk, "md they~llcrccl ma a scholrrship to ~hp Ashtabula ilrrr3rb ofKen, Strk Utlivrnity (KSU). Aft?. I had artr.ndrtlclasles far lhms quarten md won acveral rrrd~mic andwriting awards, the Ohio Burrail of Vocational Rd~rhililrlion(BVR) r~rierv~d my qarlilirationr and dryidprl,ha, 1 might be a good ribk."HC iranrrprrcd to ollio swtp univcnily (mu) md 11"and his couri~,liverl in anapar~rn~nt oflcr~np~~ 10ronpyen. His cousin !played the rolo "f allendant md rcccivcda slipend from RYR 1". his c1iorw.APcr the year at OSU he transferred to main
~n!lipus, linrhcrl Ihir R.i..and ~ar~>~.~l a M ~ s t drgn-,. ~ ~ . ~In Eng1i.h. S~nrr Lcn. Dirk IYAS been trrrllills l;,,p~lrhiiill Illlv rr nrll ai "rk. Part of\l,v ot~cla, TW lor tl~e matcrml: :tnd cx~l~s,!~ar~~I~i~~,'#ttl hI,~r#,~l flm~r lorhs m,b~r? [his crhir.of bl. I. Msrk,~~~~ki. ;, r?5?amch ?,,e!~n??r\ ~%tl~ thc'rruc.>I" a,,, ,.,I ,I,> illilll. ,I,, ,I,? 1.1,. Ililltl ill11l~l1l~ 'lIl"11Trl>lllcr Cuspany of Clc~clai~d. qhu is,~rlrtl li>r mtxr Dirk tosork ihc ieniliun. lir,ikra. drrclrru~ur. ;ancl .itllu~lhan a ycrr irbr~rrtix~c thc modiiicaliun~. 'li~lal mrl 01 ,,latic :;tllhlni.itlin sllilr st~~rmg nit11 his right lhmd.ch? ~mit. as mr?sencI> POLII~C~lh~~vl~~~linr,% l#r,ll ih Elrc~ric. l,l~tK~it~s 1ur l>ih pr$al~l~ res~>mrat
Writing: A Rewarding Challengeby Pephyton laonardThe advefliscmcnr which apenod the door for me into final corrcspondsnco ~oumc aasi~nmcnt to Famousthe field of writing, ir still vivid in my momory. . ..Wnrers Schoal in Westport. Connertirut. HrGng at-"WANED: News correspondent. Good prfl-he laitxed my goal of eomplcling the ticlion collrse in thejob fur a houserrife." thrcr ycars allu,,cd, 1 considcrcd mysslf cntitlcd ,"Why thrtadappearingina June 1969isiueoiulir 'vacation' arhiic - md ?st, 1 elt an urpncy to bcpinddly ne~r),a,,~~, thc Cqer (Wyoming) S ~ F T ~ ~ ~ ~ earning C - in view of the dollam I'd dnlpd out in 36 monthcaaghLmy eye is 8611 r mystery. Single at the time. as ly payments (my first srpzricnca vilh the "~oilvenienfwcll ss a poor hand at llourewifely do,ies, i, seemed 1 payment pia"").hardly quaiilied lor lllr jub.Though I now pobiessed r handsome ce*ificrtc de-Neuerthcloss, I answered the ad, suhmitring the rc claring lhal I had completed the Schonl's rnulse ofquircd throe "sampler" of news ropy (my fin, ,wy at ztudy. I fell less certain than ever liiat iiclion-writingsuch). and in due roum war "rig~~nl u"" as unr 01 ihc was for me. The non-fiction course I'd rurned down,n~wspaper's 20 statc correspondents hired to cover concerned that thoap around m? would be saddl-d withevcnts at the local lovel.,he reearch ,ha, this field would reqoire.Until that ~ime, typewriting - for rile h a d heen With my courac of study nor" completed. I suddenlya hohhy lin,i,ed mor,ly toletter wri,iw, - DIUS OCC~S~U"~~~faced tll? r"rio"6 challen~e of whatto-do with ,*hat-Inewsilemr ior our local WL-CLIY and r single juvpnile had.firtion story which. at that time, war oul "making the Whilr millling over the idea of answrring lhal newr~rounds."papmad. it had romc to ms ihai shoixl~l my applicationScreral months had elrr,rrd rincc I'd submitted my h? rejcrted. thcrc would be other nverltirs lo explorc.
Through my hobby of grpetingcrrd writiog, I'd foundthat with every rejec,ion slip cumcs nov hope. . .andeventually sob.Now. 1 war emharking on a new ve1,Lu.P: npwr writing.Afler livc years. I 8611 recrll being grrteiul and imprcsscdto be h i d lby a editor, w h o kt~osing I wrrr r~rpiralory and a mouth-wand typist - never-,hslcss srprosred confidence that I could handlc thejob.The posi~ion, iaclf. was a littic on ihs ununral side.~ " d may rveu represent r "job opportunity" uniqe toWyoming. mere else I,", in Lhil Rocky Mountain stat*of fewer than 400.000 population woulrl une find adaily with rlalcwidc circulaiian, fcaturinx r paw highli~htingthe news from vrriou3 communitier? My jnhwas to kwp Doaglu - "Horns of the Wyolning Statehi." o n the map, so lo rpenk.Ncvcr havina prcviou~ly~acklcd nnvspapor journalism.I set to work delichted Gth ti,? ehallenees mdopportunities ~hp job atfunled. I soon discovcrcd that"sringiw" for a daily providcd invalurhle experience-both from the standpoint of rriling and irum thatof ,uewi ~lln,o~ra"h", ihowh in ncithcr casc do I ore-~ -~ins lo bc an authority. I mn only reirtp my personalcxp~riences.me rpqairements for typownnon copy andsubmitted to thc Stato Editor 1 received neatly listed ona single pass under two h-adings: "Do's" and "Don'a."My effort5 fsaldom rated any cri,iqur, unlrsrsoliei,eri -md then only briefly na~ed. Pholas cithcr appcared inprinl, ur wrre druppsd dcpcndingupon how closelyunc adhered to thc "Don'ta," which rrutianed prticuiariyagainst shots with peoplplookingdireclly intothecamera. Gnnd coinposition, or, the other hand, sccasri-Latell ,ha, rveryone appcar busy "doing" something -evcn ii it roquired r posed 81,"t.Once I mastered the Lecllniqlle "l incorpora,i,,g ,he"five W.5" (whu, what, whcrc. whcn, why) intoa aory'slead parapraph, my copy was gpnerally printed ax Isubmitted it. To aid in cumpanne. my copy, as submi,.~sd, with ths story as it finally appeared in print. I madecarbon copics. By tho" checking the printed staryrpinst the rarbnn. I ~rmld quickly s-r whatediting hadbemi don? - ~i~oueh the reasons were not always socarily disccmiblc.Day by day, my effolts impmvrd. But the real creditfar my iurresr on the daily. I mrlst lirnd to my 'stall'- my mother, who hclpod tremendausly with notetaiung, research md pmof-reading: my attendant, whohandled the phntogaphy asinga Polaroid camera: andIrit. though not leaat, my iathcr. whowhcn ncccssitydemand~d would wait up until nearly midnipht inodsr lo hand my last-minute relearer to the drivpr nftho express mail truck, whid~ rt.luelprl nightly at theautrkim of town. Wile no! '$ilicialiy" sch~dtjled lopick up Douglas mail, ihc driucr'r "cry ncr, slop wasnms rclcasor into the newsroom and dq>osil it on thoStale Editor's desk whore it rcccivcd prompt rttcntiotl!he lullowing morning. This convenient arranpzmcntworked splendidly, week aller reek!For ti"" years, assirtcd by my three-member staff, wekspf theprceThr work. while in many waymwding,war not, however, tgn IIICTRL~YL-.Pay a~e~aged 206 perculumn inch for copy, 1st for photos.In 1971. with a complete tra~silion in my life (whichnnn, inunlvc, a deuobd-but-busy husband. zrristed herea, homr by two part-time housekeepers). l pxrhangedthe treadmill of drily d~rdlines with pay hy~lhe~inch. fora job with our loral weekly. ,hr Douplas Budmi, at asllary ui $100 a month.My firat assknmenw included everylhing from hardnpwr and iealllre inlrrvirrl l" wcddin~3 and ohituarics.1" 1972. 1 lurnsd principally to hamre writing, facu*ins mo~tly on hirtoriral silbjects is a~ldilion lo somerelating Lo central Wyaminy's ncr industries involvingmincrnl (uranium. coal, gs and oil) exploration.Among my hert freelance markets, olher ~han rnaga~rinm catering lo wcstcrn rcadcra. have been the rpocialcditiona printed annually hy Wyoming's daily news pa^pem. intended to pro~nole the slaw's hiserical puinb ofinterest, recr~atiorial lacilitbr, apricullural proxrcss,and indus,rial advancomentr.As oilart Januuy, dl,? f" chmge in mmrgement, mystatus rvifh our local weekly rlsn chmged, anrl I'm on??again on the traditional "s~ing~rr" pay schedale, disti,"? atza per i,>~h, l'hechanrc~conridor~od.dincted,howcucr. far I'm now at libcrty to set my own pareand. thus, accept fewer assigllmelli* .eq,,iring ,ha, Ifype at night to make d~adlili~~.Among pri4c~er earned thrnilgl~ work in these me^dia has been four yean' association with Wvomin~press momen lrarryine mcmhomhip. =lra), an"rg&niratios or vital, out-ping women who continue tnhc a grca, sourcc oi inspirrtion.One "bonus" prmided by rscwrpapcr writing, 1'"s~OI~IZ~. lies in inc, ,hat one iscontinur~~y brought intouch ,ri~h dynamic people from all walks of lil~, mostwhom provir~p hr~ptll~ Euntactr for thewould-b? wri,er. TI,? rrcatcs, xrard. hawever, rmerlhrollph ihc iuv of hayins work that's so inlerrsting. socampelling, that - fmm or!e day until thc nmt -youlhurry to iinirh r project, in urdcr to begin anothpr!l'herrir """finis" whonitcomps tn writing. fur ,i,erearc infinitc suhjccts ta hr explored and. ~ith awholc ncw sot of chrlleng~s to be met. Far anyone insearch af a worth%uhile avoc:r~iun at which ha c m set hisoun pare. ,lie field ofwriting is sure to provide rewardir,g11uum.Addres~: Peg Layron I.eonar
Dviuti ,iia$ Bob DrRolt's ialrnldtinnll frlllllr. '"Siii, jlhnto ~~k~~~ Lr dry Wendy nrnvrd !ram Korea. bliild. liirlc.r~il.,,,,i ~,,.~~.,ld,.,,~i Slip lbrinoern.lnl ibi l>i!>rni hrrl~~~~~FFII hrolhrriand rirs>r,alvn~arlll Bahnnd mvsrll."<strong>Vol</strong>unteer Programs for the DisabledAid to Ado~tion of Special KidsDorothy Alwnod ancl 1 1 lrrt ~ ~ Iha?hmd, 'Ted. wcrc rairix~gthoiruwn liveci,ildren,vhcn ,hey heard st rheplighlulKorern-GucrWrn children who wpr? bcing L~eated asourcarlr in Asia. TIley rcrl~nnded bv adopting Koreanorphans Kim md Marty.Widoxucd ill 1963, Dmnthv snored hcr lrmih iromPlaocrville to Pi~dmon,, California. Shortiy t1,erprftcr.DnrothY Tic11 and hh~i. two lhyerr old ivarrl~lcpirVietnsnlrrp boyr wile had her$> "rphanrrl in thc\vrr. .'I lrarned about parrple@r for ilv linl tin,?.rhildrcn lullowed ''In July. Henry, a 12-y~rr old, camelrom Bialra, then two "then tram the same cuunlry.Altlioi>eh . they . were n ~trdo~tibl~, re had legal custady01 thcm lor r ycar."B" this time. some "i LIP "Idcr ~hildren had movedaway tram home into their owis apmmcnla. With onlyten kids, bile hou80 ~~ern~d kind 01 empty. Tlsis waswhen we put SUIPP. a Korcan~Caacrsian, who ubcr bracanl~cr,ltcl,os because ,,oI~o. nicn rc wanted anotherdisabled plrymaie far Sunae, so in 1912 weadopted Knrzn, a little black girl wiio ,uar born n,ithuularms ur ipm. Shc liar been litad with rnilieial limbsirom moncv tlwy ermed."battered ~ hild ullo had Lieen rbrndoncd on tho SL~CPIS1. 1970Dorulil? md Uolm DpBolt. r cnrstruciinn lirm 01 SPO,~~. Sho war l,lind. ~ith one badly ii~tisggirsr cyr.~~ecutiuz. ivprp mrrripd. This broupiit his tecn-aged carncrl tmnsplant restarrd rigl~l to hcrdnlghter into ,he buirroninr hmil?. Mom adopi~~l mmriliing eye.
Purpose of M 3K'[.be I)PBoI!E' joyous exp~ri~nces with '.special kids"-~lad in th? founding ul AASK (Aid to Adoption ulSperJal Kid=). Tile purpoao of chis nun-proiil orgmiu-,lull I> LO act as an intermedimly hctwccn pr"l,ln,i"erdoptivc parent! and agencies s ~cki~~g to plrc? spacialrhildren for aduplion.AASK rctivcl~ rcirches for falnilier which will aduplchildren who are physically or menully dirrhled. or ofminariry dcscenl or mare than tnine ycnrs old. Mostpntentiri adopters shy away lrum ~ldcr or diirbicd urracially alieri rhildren. Consequently. ~hol~srnds alrdoptablc children arp not adopted AASK lhopei tainereare thenumheraf dirahl~d ~hildren lhrtrrcaduplodby publiciaing the fact that thc curls 01 raising thcmare rboul tho ramc ax for othcr chilclren hecause lnnrlstates provide fur ~unlln~~ing mcdical car? for adupleddirabled rhildren.MSK Payment ProgramMSK is nut an adoption agency. If providcs incentiveand rid to children and their aduptiup parents thruugh:(1) payment af anornryr' lws lor aduplion: (2) prymcnt01 medical and denlal fees not covercd by i,uhlicag?"
WMRY'sdosed circuit, providing 15 hoanof news andinlurma,ion five drysr wcck to about 700 bormwers ofspecial receivers. Thebe receivers are loaned withoutcharge to eligible listenen. The retr are tuned in onlyto ,he sla,iun's sub-carricr irn~a~ncy and are operatedwith a simple afEon switch. The broadcasting radius ofthe sta~ion ir 50 nniler, rovering the entirc mdrupolilanarea of St. Louis, Missouri.This yearold program ii funded through granls andstaffed wilh volunteer help. <strong>Vol</strong>unteers recard magazincsand book onto cassette tarm and take (hem to tileradio stations. Newspapers am rcad an a "live" basis.The Telephone Pioneers ai America and thc LionsClubs of Mirrouri deliver the receiver8 and the Wc&tcmElectric Cuuneil donates repair services.Applicants must be ccnrliedaa clit.ible by a physicianor be reasterpd with the State Service5 for thc Blind.For further dcuils, wrile: B. 1. Wiltenbrink. O.M.I..Executive Dlrccmr, WMRY's Talking Rooks. Shrine aiOur lady of thc Snows. 95W Highway RM) Wen, Bplleville,Illinoi8 62223. Phnnea: (618) 397-6700: (314241-34(10.Radio Tallong Book. a similar sorvicc, is operating it,the State of Washington for thasc who cannol readbecause of visual or physical disabilities. Thc main,,rugramming is ,he reaJi,,g a1 news,>apers, news ma@-zincs, book3, and other items of special interert. It isbraadcast aver the SCA ( ~ ~ b - ~ af h KUOW. ~ ~ ~ ~ l )Special receivers are loaned to thaw ~li@ble porsonswho request thcm. Eli~*ilily is the *me ar for theLibrary of Congress Talkins Book pmgram.For Information, conmt: Lihrary for the Blind andPhysically Handicapped, 811 Harn~on Sireet, Seattl?,Washington 98109 Phone: (206) 464-6932.anirk3 uhn have donated thcir talcnu are Fred Wning.~ih~.race, Henry Mincini, Her11 Alpon. John CharlsrThom~ar.Burl Ivea, and Ethcl Waters. Oth~r involved artistsAdventures in Movementincludz the Longinaa Symphonola, Pmd Wliteman.Mantovani. Tennessee Ernie Ford. and Guy Lumbardo.Adventures in Mavenlent (AIM) ir a nalionnl non-profit Violinists ~ h have o contributed includo Mircha Elman.ownization dedicated to teachine muvcmcnt lo blind. Sidney Hanh, Juser~h Szige~i, Isaac Stern. Edith Pcinedeaf,retarded, physically disabiod, and emoiianally dis- man, and Stefan Krayk. 1 %~ Ncw Yurk Philharmonic~urbed ~ ~ in 1958 ~ in nayton. ~ ohio. d it ~ d Orchertra presented the Loonard Bcrnstein series forhas 1W chapters acmss the country. Almost 600 childrcn and ihe Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra do^mined volunieerp work wilh 25.W childrcn. hnds nrted m entirc season of its cunce,,s.are derived from donatiuns and spmial fund-mising The present library also includcs works eunlribut~dpmjcctr.by thc ombassics of Norway, Sweden. Holland. Gcr-Anyone with a love and concern for children can many, Italy. Ireland. and Grea~ Britain. The rdlectionbecome an AIM teacher. All vuluntoors arc roquired totakc rwolve hours of minine md ","Sf be willine to. .national executive director "Wc'm working on motorskills. teaching thc basics, and this takos timc. AIMgive each child the chance to da his ",",I thing. If itlilkes six weeks to uncmak a finger, it taker sir tueekr.But it @ucs tho child a chance. There's never been acomplete failure at AIM. Therp'g been improvement inevery child xre've helped."Mayhe Tomomw, a 28-minutc 16- culor film, ldls~hc AIM story. The film, nanrted hy National HonoraryChairman Gelre Kclly and ~,,"ns"red by the Juniurleague "f Daytan, is available on r rental basis. It ismade to teleribion rpecilica,iow and has been shown onfelpvirinn thmughout thc countryFor further infomation, writ* Jo A. Geiger, Executive~ i ~ AIM, ~ I"c., ~ % t hobury ~ ~ R.O ~ nayton, ~ ,Ohin 45420.Recording8 for RecoveryA uniquc. nun-profit organimtion, Recaidinss fur RecovPry,sends thornpy aru,,nd ,he world in the form alon tape. The arganba~ion, known ar R4R, wasfoundcd in 1957 by Mr. md Mrs. Ralph L. Huy. Underth? dodicatsd direction of Mr. Hoy, r retircd Alcoarxccutive, it has cxpandcd from a ,ape lor one homehundfriend to 15,W tapes that havc rcached 500.OXl persons in 26 coantrler.R4H is entbcly dcpandenl ltpon cnntributians. Thcreis nu paid staff: some 250 ualun~eer workers and theworld's top m,,sicians donrte their scrviccr. Its inkmafinnrlmedical and advisory commime~~ include cxperlsin prychiauy, psvcholapy, and education. It is afliliatcd~ith the Bvitish Society for Music Therapy and withieverai insniucionr in ~ a ~ d ~ .whenof the Amencan ~ e d ~ of MUS~. ~ t i ~ ~chns were appmachpd, they save permission fur any oftheir membcrs LO volun,eer their reruices. Among thcR~~~~ willirms, L~~~~~~ WE^, nanny K ~ ~ ~ ,has been expanded funher ~ ith from pnviteco~~pctinnsof Asian and African music."I, has been estimated." says ML Hoy. "that to repmduce the present library fmm Bach to baa@o-woogiewould involvc scvcral millions of dollan. This wealth oftalent har been cuntributed for the good it can da andwith ,he knowledg~ that none of it has ever been soldfor pmfit."Thc lapea are provided without chrrgc to individualsmd e hospitals, schools, rehabilitation centers. and
Rotaly International'The Decemhcr 1973 issuc uf The Rotarian is dovatodto Rolary Infeniatianrl-r Ions history of work with thedisahicd. "Rotary's funstion is frequpntly mrlytic,"writps the editor. "Rotarians arc parlicularly abpl atsccing a need, creating a solution, getting the proicctmoving thcn turnin(: thc machinery over to "th~ls torun." A3 an ~xamplc, the Nrtional Eastsr Saal Sucie~yfar Crippicd Childrcn and Ad~~llr and R~hahilitationIn~pmaeonrlsierv out of projects aponsured by ROWClubr in New York. Ohio. and Ontrria in ths earlytwenties.Rotary Inlcrnntianal'r ~rojecls rpau tile globo: aschool for the dcaf in Arycntina, a home lor disabledchildren in The Netherlmds, a school iur ihc Landi~crppcd in Ja,,an, a Rotary lnititure far Childrcn inNeed of Spcsial Care ia I#>dia, a hydrothempy pool inCanada, a hospital in Guatsmala, r mulorir?d whpel- Pisrl,#urgh.prisons. R4R works clo~ely with s~xcial rchaols andhnspitals for the retmdcd. brain-damaged, and mationallydislurbcrl, rrcndingipecirl songs. hackrmund ma^sic.and rhythmic ina,men,. Because ofthedeath of hisoldeit =on in r Naval hospital, Mr. lloy devotes murh01 his lime to creating prop-rms far vctcranr' huspilals.A mzmbm of prisons snrl ]prison hospitals also izrc thetape. for lrerfment.includc ~lassisal and insLrumanlal music, light opera.band muiic. hrllrds. musical comedv. folk niusic. rcligiourmuric and mnsagPr, rtnry so,igs, and rhildren.3.pccialfi'%.To ,participate, request r debcriptive hrochurc andapplication form from: Mr. Ralph L. May. Recordingsfor Rernvery. Box 288. Orkmant. Pennsylvania 15139.Phone: (412) 339-2422.Write to Rotary Internrtianal. 16W Ridxc Avenue,Euanston, lllinuis 60201 lor ibc frw hrorhures. Worki, With ~ the Handcopped and Ed,,m,ionni A,uardrII~~~ll~oh. TIF latter descrihei the axward prn(:lam lorfeachcrs af handimppcd LO study in another country.ACTIONktablishcd in Jiily, 1971, ACTION hrought tqcthcrsir fedelally supported vulunker progmmr, administeredby diHcront agencies and added rir new ones.ACTION and the National Center for <strong>Vol</strong>untary Aclianwork clasoly togelher in all aiear of vnluntaribm.Some dirahled persons may wish tu valuntwr theirtimc and lalenw, nlhem may want to he on thcrcccivingend of some af ths scrviczs offered. For inrtanr?. forrhllrr~ ~~~who are lpft alone rt hame durine thc dau. ..theremay hc porsibililier oi voluntwr "rifiers" through thrnew Senior Compnniun Program ui the Foster GlandparcniPrwram. Olhrrs, wantine, lo ahrc small busiLnesses. could find crpcnisc from rctircd bu~inessmenin SCORE~ ~or workine husineirmen in ACE. Infarmationis available lrom ACTION'S ten regional ollirrr.locrted in Boston. Ncw Yurk Cin. Philsdrlphia, all an^ta. Chiraga, Drllrs. Kmsas Ciw. Kansas, Denver. SanFrancisco, a d Seaulc.
you~praject, be as specific as possible about he paniculararea of your infprp;rt. Among the rafegories includ.National Center for <strong>Vol</strong>untaryAction cd are civic allairs, education, emp1o)nnen\Since ie incorparrtion in 1969, the Center has conduct- cnlxpreneurship, @"=-away programs, housing, legaled a nationwide clearinrhouse semicc iu omvide infur. ri~hh", physicrl envimnmcnt, paychological/~ocid supor. H~IE- Roth, an info;matioll rpeci.~iat tdvhone chock-up aystem far the homebound.~youlormerly wi~h ihc Smithsonian Institution. lnlormnlion would he sent infrnrmalion sheets on similar pmpramson thousands 01 va~unteor nranams - coverine ain =i*'ence around rhc countrv. Therc would he a-. . .relating to the develupmen~of volun~eer programs have The selvicc is he! HW~IFS. may be made by mail,ken prepared. Cmncly, thc &"tsr pllb~ishes two phonearperaanrl visit 10 National Center lor <strong>Vol</strong>untarymagrnnea for thobe concerned with ualuntocring: vol. Actbn, <strong>17</strong>85 Mnssachusettr Avenuc N.W., Washingunary AdinnLPadrrilni,,. a quanrrly for lead.0". D.C. 20036. Phone: (202) 797-78000r 625 Markerem, and volunroN A C ~ ~ O a bi-monthly. ~ N ~ , Buth am Ssca, Suite 309. San rmncisco, California 94105.disuihuted free. Phone: (415) 495-5305.To assist the r~sparrh ltaff in finditla information forTravel CampEvery year since 1953 ihr Fume Farmen nf Amcrlcs In Minnesota hav~rupponedTnve1 Camp. About 30dimLld prtlcipatreach year, mueliw in new ran. lomd hy Harvld Lanon of Harold Charmlet in Bloomington. Minncrofa. Counselors havednvon the camp, to Ycllomtone Park. Glacicr Psrk. Be Black Hills of Nonh Dakoia. and Northern Michrmn. Wilr from:Courage Ccntor.3915Goldrn Vslley Rd.. Goldrn Vall-y, Minnesok 55132.
to the in-rrll~d soriom.,~nusiir n.alc. This scale ,ratc~g"ri?ei 1'""l'l" i. ,erms sl Lllcir social strtui wIiic.1,. ina g.nt.ral way, ir lid in with thcir crosomi,. ",,nails."Fort1,c.r rclnforrcln~nt "1 ,I>? PilPPlll or rm,,loymrntI, I .,I I. ,,I .11.,,,, . ., . I , .I,1.1, !I,, ,,I. I ,. . . II ,..,.".i , , ,\I I.., 1 ., L I,,. ,,. .,, ,. ,., .,, ,. ,. , .,I .I .,,I 1 . / I .I. 8 . 8 ' \IAl. . ,I.'. ../ I .... .. , ,,I . I, I.? 11, ., . I,.,.sclnl~or tllp rlllnnloll~y ,.~d rrglilnPrltr against pmployingihc dirrblcd arc craminccl and di~~~ll~d.Onri* ltl" helie1 thrt r,r zmploycrh irrrorrnce ntir so upi~i~l, lllr liirihy 01 a ~li~;,li~l is,nrkrr. Asgpl writ*%. -.Itir ncccsrm,.~ ," cm,,haaizc ,ha, lllcir is ,I" llruvilio,, it,wovkm~n'r mmpenarrion insurrnrc policies or nits~~bivii ~rllrlir?r an PIII~IO!PI for hiring lhmdirrppediv"ikcis.'lb crnrc mu mi.undcrrta.di,,r*. 11,crr arr llleDonna M?CIIohlawspirrtory li"li,l ""adBox 267. Grrud Rivpr, Ohio 1RW.5I\~P"C~CS &lid "mni~,i"nb ii, wpry SlPLe that ,l? a,d r~"t"iI~"ti1,~ lilc.
Sex, A Better UnderstandingCarnrnunily Se* Informollon andE&co"on Service, IncBox 2858. Gand Central Station. New York 1W<strong>17</strong>.so*third, mrarive one nn the x-ray wble as the radiologis,swere checking the anerier to find the point of bleeding.Three lloun later il war Iuca,ad md r d~ci~ion warmadc lo upsratc. There wcrc many adds amins, hersulviral, but not to operate would have been fatal.Pat wrs in r camr for two wwkr i0110wing ,he operalionA month later she reli8rncd hamcunablcta speak,with doublc risian and without her memory, and paralyzedan the right pide. Expenrer mo~nlad as Pat lostpeople solve heir sexual problrnir Bruwh education.her salary lroni ihr uniinished iilm and Roald, a wntcr,Hc started the arganiration becruse of the ,"any pahada sctback with a movie script. Their expenses rantime be llad whose sexual prublsnlr r~.nllad from aover two thousand dollan a month. Shorlly they leLsimplc lack of cdacakiun. Sumc of its selviceb includoCalifornia and returned lo (heir home in England.educational icctures md folders, telephone counwling,Roald rises to his bea efforta as the demands of anand rrrang?nient. iorfrep M and pr,gnaney Lesis. Oncincapacilat~d, pregnarll wife, three children, and dwinof,tic gualr or CSIB is to sct up local chrpters in asdling savings pilc upon him. During ths followingmany communitier rr possible. No one rrlling for informnnthr lie palforms the chores ai tho houso, organize.mation is ever required ta pve his or I>?" nzme.a (earn of friends md npighbars to wart A h Pal inThir is bttt one of ihs baoklca to bc madc avrilablorupplcmcnling ihr work of profesaionrl speech thornbyCSIES. It is orplicitly llh~strrtid and helps the readpiits,and in tha remaining timc answen Llle ha.dredscr ,,ndcistrnd ,hc spccifica and en,o,ions of lillmanofirneis thatarrive drilr. Itis Rorld whocon~lucfr iorfs+xurlity. The male md fcmalc body and their rethe"gh, cumpolilio,, of events that keep8 the homcspunres to stin~ulafinn. birth cnnirol. prcgancy,functianinp and rho rkht atmosphere lor Pat's rehrhilahurliunmalh~ds, verierprl direrr~andoiherffliciionsi,a,ion. The reader quicldy lcarnr to apprecia,e Ruald.3of the reproductive orgms. md saurl r~lali"nsllips amgmias and the d~pth of his caring. Herc is a bcau~ifuldirrusrpn inunderstaod lanpuagc.demonstration ui thc strenglh of love and the mimclcsThe !nost lihelal as .dl as llvc mmt cunvcn~iunalof ll~rling that it cm work.rie*.a of rex are reaperted. Humurcruality, bi-sexuality. Ulil~i5 YOU have known romeonc wha has had aand sexual myths are troarodwitb logic and anderstandstrakci, is had to imagine the drily sfr"~1e roquircding md withnut judgmen,. I. ,i,ree ,,aragrn,,l,. ,hstn again learn to talk md movc. Formnatcly, it is notmyths of vaginal orgasm, and penis ric as an indicatora srriol~r harinerq. Roald points out tho humorui sexual cumpctcnco are succincdy dphanked.in iomo olthc rurds Pat cuncucb as rhe slowly recoversThe nine other hookI?ts ill ihr plm.i,,g"iry: are: I,?, vnrrhulary. words ruc1,as"soo'q swatch" fur rnarli~Birlh Co~~lrul, Early Scxual Elpcnences, Louomaking.ni and "rinkan." "rkitch" and "nhlognn" for cigarone.Homoroxurlity, Mraturbrtion, Ahorlion. How To Tplln,~ procs6s 01 rchabi~iti~iun is anr~ anlanur.You* Child Ahoul Sr*, Vcsrr~al Discarc, and Sm Oat- however, and to help othcn ggct rhmugh it more earilyride of Marriage.K~alrl shares some advirc. He wrote tho dotails of planningmd thcnpy in a mirncographed letter aild rent itPst and Roaldto a.yone who rcquestcd hclp.by Ram Fcmll1%9 Random House. NPW York, TorontoOm of the n~ln Rorld sncss~s is, "Thr pcrsuii uponwhom tb? patient is depmdent, be it hosband, wile.fathe*. mothcr, brothrr. sirtcr, or best iriend, shouldY"l, rle,,',l,aveto her movician to havc huirrl ih~rtory never, is niy opinion, wk? on the onerous doty oi01 Hullvwuud rclierr Patririr Neal md hcr scrics oi rehabilitation. Thal persol, shnh8ld r?sen.r his or hern~rrfrtrlstrokos.Thc ycarwas 1965md Pat was work- energlc~ farrnnninp the hoiirc or rarninga living, anding 1,ard ," finish r movie bcfore hcr filth pregnancy rhuvr all, keeping ch~~rf~11:' Rorld tells how to sched~began tu show. Onc night she had revere hprd pain andblurred vision. HPT husband, Rorld. rerctcd inwnlly.He hurncd LO ~lhe phun~ and dialed the number that wasulc tho lricnds who can help llle patient prrrtice histl~inkingand use a1 vocabulary. Hcwarns, "Fri?#iB. willpru,cr, a, iirrt, arying they know nathingabout how torarked to the wall of his study. 11 war liie number nf teach pcap~c ruifcnng iruln ap~laria, *tc. TO dlib youllhrir ~~~~~osurg~on,kppt in r promin~ntplrce siocc ihc rep1 y that they don't have to k,io,v nny,hing.The wholeaccidolit ai thcir illfan, son. TLeu, ,ha, had rrurrd thine is cornann senre. All the patient wmts is prac-PX~C~I~~VP hnin damage. From that rrpcriencc Roalrl tice." Pat's 1irs,",caeher"arrived a, 9a.m. and thelasthall~~lrarned~~th? irnoortmcr of timemd rkill in traiinr on? lpft at 6 p.m. with thrcc hours off a, lhznchtime.hrain injury.'rllerr ,rnchen con,ril,,,,ed their own rdrice on spccif-Wi~en Pat roachcd thc huspilal fiileell minut~r later ics 01 instrilcti0n e Roald'r lirt, valurbl~ informationshe had already had two bnin hemorrhrgcs. Shc had a far r,iyonc n.orking with a strokc victim.
Sh months after her strokcs Pat gave birth LO theirdaughter, Lucy. Aiter coming hame fram thc hospitalshe learned how to valk without her brace. Two ycarslaler she wrs rhlc to give a speech at the Wddarf-Aaoria at a henefii far brain-injured children. Andthree years later she gave a star pedormanco in themovie "The Subject Was Ka~es."There is irony in O~isatoryaawell asniomph. Injuryor discasc to tho brain "1 nervous system hitfaur membersof the Dahl hrnily. One of thsir daughlers died ofmoasles encephalitis; one mn had hydrocephalus fromthe skull iniulioi following an aulomohile accident andunderwent eight majar brain operations; and Roaldhimself had three spinal operations. Ho was rctiredfrom thc RAF is 80% disabled. It ir atrange how fatecen~en its attention on cenain families and conrnlationlies only in the knowledge that atrengh and crcalivilyas well as somw can emelge in in wake.Fernonel Relationships, Thc Hmdieapped andthe Commonily, Some European Thot~ghts andSolotions.Editod hy Dor~k Lancaster-Gaye1972. Routlodee & Kegan Paul, London, BostonRelalionships. he they personal, business, or community.ds meaning and value lo llfc and aursolves. Wedream and accam~lish far the a~~roval ..and satisfaction.I Ir in.% ,r.,,al .>.L {J. r wh.rs1 $.r twr#'l.t r?,r,p l,.,ii. ,, I.+< s.:. %!# 1, k?..l.C, .>.k. .,#,II , , 8. I . . . . , .. . h h 11,Now a hook has heen devoted to ,he important and~~~I~cted subject ofof the disrhled. Itcontains essays by faurtesn rehahililalion pmie~rional~imm Denmark, Swcdcn. England, and Holland. Thcfirst part of the book cuvcn the total setting nthinwhich penonal and more famal relationship% between,he di~ablcd thcmselveb or the dirahlcd and the aidebodiedare developed. The ambitious housing accommodationsfor the disahled provided by Hst Darp inHdlmd. Fokus in Swcdcn and the Kdlektivhusets inDenmarkaro the subject af threeof the essaye Is theseprojcas the quality of living is ~onsidcrod m tho planningaa well as s,r"e,nal dctails. Independ~nc~ ia encouragedand aided with architectllralr~asonahle rate8 fur mums and attendant services and.aled bcfore rdmisrinn is appruvccl. This lcsscns thc riskof failure hy residents ta integrate rucrprifully intohome and eommunirv life.Theaecond par, ui (he hook studies the most pcrsonrlof relatio~~shiy~, tho serual. Due to certain societalmyths and oroiudice. . . the dishled have been ieedcd~dar scxually n~ulei, immature, and incrpablc. It is onlyrecently that their sexual nods md abilities have beenrcknowledged and discussed. Personal emeriences andscveml seminars and studie~ ham increased informationpertaining Lo sex and the disabled. In Holland atwo-year rueio-prycholo@crl study on ihc subject hashccn authorired at the Ulliversily of Amrterdrm withthe mpor, possibly to he issued in paperback.Somc of the facts are unexpected. In 1%9-1970 theSwodiah Cenwal Commiltez an <strong>Rehabilitation</strong> conducted an investigation into the knowledge and attitudcrtoward sex of seventy-five physically handicapped hoysand girla hetween heaps af 1625 who auendd onoof three separalc special ins~ituti~ns lor ihc disabled.lnger Nordquist. secretary for the SCCR, statcs. "Noevidence was found to suggest tha~ psychological pmhkmsin the scxual life of the handicapped were mareprevalent than in the sexual life of the able-bodied.Instead, the problems involved were ymhlems of communicatianand for same people thobe of a technical"amre." Althougn the young people hrd had sex educationin school they wanted lo know more, erpeciallyabout theethics and psyeholow uisexual lifeand technicalaas to mako coitus oasior. Gitus pasitions andrantrrceptives had r high priority.Improvement of life iur the disabled has iocused onthe most intimato farm of expression. Some of the discoveriesare reported in thia work and it is heartoninsas well ar enlightening reading.,..If vuu are iurnine ~hcsc oams with a mouthstick or apat ~urncr or relatively ualoss hands you am di@hlcfarthaTalkine Books program. Underrhispragram, theLihrrry of Congress will loan you a FREE record playerwith special adaptations and send you FmE recardedhooks and current maguinep. FREE po~age, too.All vou need to nualifv . . is a brier slnlemrnl of vourdisability from a campotent authority (local lihruian,visiting nurse, dactor, etc.).Contact your local library or write: Division [or theBlind and Physi~ally Handicapped. Library of Congress.Washington. D.C. 20540.<strong>1974</strong>,<strong>Vol</strong>umeXYII
.Hobbiesbi Duncan A. Ilolben. MUDr. Dunran A. Bdhert, thr Cazeua's mrdiral ronrullml. hasbeen a rrrgirrtow polio qaadriplc@. rinrc 1%'): lhir hr"alhin8aid8 are an imll lunr! and r mchiz bed. Belurr oolio. hek,., t,,., ,,,, 8 ,.,,,.,, ,, 3 . rI..,,,.,,,..,,.:. I,., . . / I , i , ,,, ,... I,,,. ~_,, , , I , ,,.., ...,_l,,, . \ . 1 , . 1 ~ . , , .,,,Irrytmire roohilily or llhe use 01 ihrnd8.Dr. Hoihr* ua. one of the lint to SFUS US^ openly fhcimportance ol sex in the life of tile dimbled His lrank mdcnmprrh+nrivr arldr. "Sex and ihr Dirahld." in ihe 1967Gasiai~. produced many rerciiolls of lhormr and shock. Wllenit war rcprincd in the 1973 Cormn air years la~r. it stirrrdnu, a ain~lrrader l" cvcnlllenl.Over ,he years. Dr. Holhcr, har mmn ..ticlcr in theCuo"~ un many of the yr0blrms Lhrl ",her polio quads lrcr.incl~~di~~gavoidingcoldi md tho c~~msci of kidncy stones. andhr has hr.n gcnrmus with his lime in anriv.rily qurati""~by individual rerrlwn an4 in si1aring his own crp~nrn~rs. In1968 hr wmfc. "Ahnut a year -0 - alter 15 yeom ofcolnplele ,misery over the hedprll prablom - I fin all^ hadr rulursmv don?. ~4th complete and vandrrlul relief fromall llle pain, anrmra. aud bleeding Inilirlly, the idra wrmrdridirulnus. hut I swear 1 should havr had it dnncihc 1 h 1 rwrillstead of ,118 1811>."Married sinre rollrgc davs. Dr. Rulhrn and hia wile. Peg.lhavr loilr grav,, cllildrerl slid m ndopted ili""~.A hobby, in its trueit sens*, is inmething thrt you do,hat in itscli is so fa8cinrling and so enjoyable that youput it dorn,oncca~ar~ed,orsumrihirlgrimply cannot wait to get back to d"i"~.T ~ O csrcncc ~r this pr~ocrliprtinn is rprwin~y that itis ~~j~yahl~, it ii diverting. it is fun. and that it somehowsr&lics you inride. Seine folks gpt this feelingIron, colircting awmpi, milk bonic tops. buttons, oldcyc danrs, ernply I,e~lsime bottles. wishhones, md r Latnfother stuff ,ha, mur, "1 ,,r throw away in thegarbageran. Which all goes to pravc, 1 gusss. lhal pmelicallyevery haman rrtlfrct becarnos intcrcsting whcn sccn interms "I its histury and il* n,ultiple rnanifealalinnr.There ir nothiw particularly intcrrsting ahoul an" givznmatrhhook. hut when see,, hy the hundreds or thourands,inrirxpd, calegorir~d, and lovingly displayed.paper n7atchbooks suddcnly becume rreiling and diverting!Ezrh on? has ie own story. "this onc wcgot inthe motel near Yello~~ston~, r~m~mher when UnclcChrriic ruokc up wilh thc bear in the lent looking forthe pntao salad thathe had rfrshrd awry for r midnightmack." Such is (Ilr origin 01 a, least hall of theworld'shohhier. Simplc collections.Oneof my favurit~l~ohbiesiscuIleclingold wnr. Onof111~good things ,ha( evolved rs ansull of this hobbya liumher of miys whn hecamc~oud. clos~lnpnds bccaml: rc had a common intermt. Now. cventhough 1 am lr~elyhoi~s~bounrl, they ccomr by lo showsome "il rap md ball rifle that they pickcd ap atlarm auction r~mc cinl war rcvulvcr that is furswapping. One is a tcacher, another ,works a1 a lumb~ryard. another ir a mechanic, and 3" on. And so re sitmd talk nl,~~~t and Indians md histoicalcpisod~r, and in this *ay my life bccums more fill'rl~ith (hose things that ,uith hrnrdcr human relatinnshipsmd expenenccs. l'hrr? is so damn lilll~ timeleft tn think abuul poor lirtic me and how had I led!I1 just put thc ~urrl out ihmugh evevane vowromc aaruir. i~efnre long other nuts Liks yoamell willb-8" writing lo you md showing up on wccksnds, andbrlorp longyaur~ollertion of dolls or Ttldian brbkcw ortoy trains will be@n to cov~r the wblc top and thennoighborr will have to came in and build you rompSI,CIVPI, and some more s1,eives in your room, md thcnin thc dining room, md by ,he,, you'rc hooked forgond.md it's wand~iful! 1 know - ymhr Aunt Ciarise willnod knowinpiv and whisper to the lamily thrt paorGcurg? ir losing his mind ccollpctin~ thasc silly olrl fruitjars or ~ h~ever. But meanwhile George ia back ,her?in his room in r happy swpat. his ~"~"leemin& mdtrying tu control his voice ro h~ won't round excited
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Adjustments to DisabilityExcsrpL? fmm the mitten commcnts of Lhim spinal-injured maic a~udenu at Wondrow Wilson Rchabililation Center inrcaponse lo qucrtions LY Dr. lillirn A. P~nncll about what rhnuphr- and orperiences helped or mado it hard to adjust to disaLiliil.(Rrprinted with the auihoi. pcrmibsi"".,What Thoughts and ExperiencesHelped You To Get UsedTo Your Handicap?Nu.1: "W.W.R.C.!"No,2: ..D pyot Bfaffmombcrs, W,W,R,C,coed friends, toad AwriPnesa of pooplo inworm ehapc. Psoplc in gcncral. Re~urn in my fing~m."NO.& .,me only timas I fccl happy are when I'm gettieitinrroturn t" my legs or when I'm home with my friends.The only thoughtwhich lelr me face my handicap is thal~'m LOO scared to dic, so 1 might as well live th? be=,I can."N0.6: "1 find it much easicr lu meet peoplp nnw thanI did whcn I war llllrt. I've met r lut of nice people inti" last Ien yoam-*No,3: ..HavingN0.7: "Doctorr and therapists brought ideas on how toSnlne3 c.c., ~ h ~ hcingabieta ~ ~ help h myrdfa,,d ~ ~ iwke rare~of yoursell bul I ramefhroufihthciniur~ veryotilrm. 11 could beI rm do almost anylhing that lhar to do with lightworse."work."No.4: "I belimo that God put evcryonc us^ parlh for rPUrllRPP, in my wil help N0.8: "I have a erl back home now that lave6 me. Shcmc in lindini: my in life. T have found is ismmy only ieasnn for wanting to live. I am alsoselcreliant and dun'l have to depend on orhcrs asa iat of goadnr~s still lei, in this world."much."No.9: "WhenIgut hurl I didn'l hardly knowwhat I wasgoing tndo but thcn 180, to ,hinkingrhout all theothcrpc"ple in worse canditian. My family has been the bestahouthdpingme: (hey would take ma fishiwand hunl~ing and anphinr I wantcd lo do, The bigpi help waswhen 1 got my car md 1 could K" flhere I wanted to."No.10: "My parcne and close fricndr have been helphil.1 now get more moanini: from life. I realire howpa, i, ii to havrrgood mind mdto use it. I have fnundthat God can help me in many xvays. God is thc grealhealer."Noll: "Doctom and therapists have mad? it easy formc so being in r wheelchair isn't that harrl. There isalwrys somcone worse ,ha" you."Nu.12: "Keep as busy as possible. Talk with othersabout problrmr. Keep faith md nevor +"c up hope.n. L~II,~,, ~4. P~~~IFII, gi;.p~,o,, c~, 4 P F ~s,,"~ I .OI,,,.Hplp from vm undcrslanding fsmily. Day dreamingabuu, past and future."relinl Cmtrr. \ilari Ri1di.i" Cullrp,., Sill,",".. Lir&,,,,r.rrC~iipd vv,v tduca,in,, (rum thF lln,rrrri,y N0.13: "MY*-ire was a ereat h-IP
No.14: "I havc rcccnlly been married. With my newwife I forget my small uuubles. A new lifp a d a muchdifferexx one to look forward ro. Somwne ta cam fur,to care lor me, to need me. To he nsedrd. Just ahoutthe only thing that keeps me going. I've eom? closer iamy par~nts; their conrern md hclp amaze mr. I finallyfound who real friends are. Mostly my wife!Nu.15: "Swing otherpcuplc the same or wane or h~tterlhan I. Beingindepcnd~nl in ihingr. Asocial lil~; rneel~ing new people."No.16: "Gmup therapy with other quads and paras m dparcnm learned to imue m? alone and Id me he morcindepondmt.,'N0.<strong>17</strong>: "Knowing whcn I pduatc I rill be ahlo to KOto have a new =ar with hand conmls, and he rhlotogo where 1 want and do ths things I prefer to da. MoatI amindependent -in."N0.18: "Since I have heen handicappad. 1 think all myfriends have "lado a ersier fnr me to acccpt il."Na.19: "Since my accident I think I've hecomc murcreligious. Well, it's made me accept it bettpr than I didat first, whcn 1 was more or leas resentful. My oldestbrother is now finishing ap hia marteh. He's lh~lpedme a lot in wanting to coniinilc my sd1ration. Helhinks pwple look for what you've 'got andnot ,hat you'm in a wl~eelchair. My crea~iup writingteacher at school has hzlpcd tun by rsirinpmuney lo~eimea ,ape rpcn.de.,'No.20: "My lricnds and relatives vcal me ihcrrmc nowas hpfore my accidenl. They make mc iml like I =tillhelong. %fore I was hurt I haql quit school. Now I amstarting to think ai>o.t a colloac education."Nu.21: ''Belove coming to W.W.R.C. I spcni ihrreinanother hospital: I was babiecl and pamporedand nwpr really told thr lr~ltl~. I came to W.W.R.CmdI had in sink or rwim, an mv own. 1 war madc lo dothing for myssll had to learn how to take care of,a. It +e5 n,e a ielinp of ratislaclion and m.enruperiurily to know that I'm inrlep~ndent. I nm a nian.B~OIC dcciriuns about my fumrc curald he -do, I hadt" accept mysclf as r paraplegic, stop rirhing and hopinsandpl?v-rctingthal I wol,ld be rblc lo walk rgain."No.22: "Male-femrlc relalinnrhipr; ill have romconc toshare the grid and hard times, it maker it carvr Attitude01 my family, my fnthcr murlly, that I still couldlivc a good lih I've mad? several closc friends thatahowsd mc that the handicap didn't make my differenceto thorn. Always havc bccn a "cry physical pemon:my type disability does not jeepadire rhilily LO dresrhalrcway decent. Splin7s ,lot rttrrctive. h, l!", gawky.luakiw. I do gel mad, irus,ra,ed, depresacd, etc., hutI remember 1 did this bdmc I was hllrl md it is all partof a person's emnriona1 1,er.i~. That's j"bt life."No.23: "I've only been hun onc ycar. The Cenlcr hashelltetl me adjust to nly had thoughts. such as ihc waythc general pulllic starer al a perrrmn in r wheelchair. IIn .I . .I,, ,,,,, b .\ ,, > ,,,,, >, ,.. .,"V ".r (1.,I .., 8 , 1 r 8'. 1, 1,.4n,.., I,,,$.. I";'I.. IS.III' 1h1..1 1 .I,,.< 1 Ir~llII..II1l..I L. I* ..ever accept th? wheelchair or my handicap.'No.24: "Tho drivc e bocomc scE-snpllorting and tomake a ~""d lir.ing fnr my family. 1 hrvc nu0 kids anda wifo and I like doing ,hings 10, myself. It ir bad toget rdjustod to my hmdicap. I think I ncvcr will but Iwill accept if."No.25: "I cm lank at ather people and rcc that someare in worse shape lhan myself."No.26: "Fint of all my handicap camc imm m~ ownhand. I had wl~ar 1 rho~~glxr lo he a lot nf prnhl~mr, 60in my timc of dopmssion and sclipity I tried ~o lake myow,, life but by the graced God I surnvcd. From thernirwte I knew I was prrrlyred I rccept~d it. I lankaround and 1 see peulde who are a lot won? off thanI am. Mcn andwomen and ~hiiclrsn sumzahere in lhirw"rld are fi~htingand dvins cvcry day. If a ycrsun whois dirahlpd would think of there people, he woidd thankGod that hc ir alivo."No.27: "TIIF nns experience which has helped me themust ir being it, a,, envirnnlnenl where 1 ran arrorirtewith othcn who havc thc samc pr"hlsms. Just baingamand people with the same type of injury or compamblrinjuries like cerelrral palsy or murc~jlar dystrophyhelpa ma gc! ovsr fccling sow for myscil. Whsn yuurrr neoole . . in the same or won? rhau~ .. vou hmin tothink about arscts md r pcrsonal unluc syrtcm lhassd onwhat ynu have to wmk wid,. not with what you ha,,en't.Anuthrr i!nf,rerrio#? ir (ha, il is h~Ild111 LO bea~socirf~dwith ni1rsos and thorrpists who don't try ru sepnratetheir own p~nnnalitics from thoir work. When "0".is up of bunch of ilnperronatomatons, world rlo~sn't olfpr much i~lr~ntivr topet roil. You need real hlzmn poaplc. likc nun~5 youlby thpir fiml name, ppnple to whm you canrolatc eve81 ll~ougl! ll~ey may nol be in a wh~~iri~air.Anothcr thing 1 hrrc found hclpful is lo bc ahls lo rcadabout my injury. W.W.R.C. provides '~~ormal' expeTi.ences to participate in; this ~fcciing normal. cannot heunderestimated."
No.28: "I hare a very vundemtrnding ?~l,"hen 1 so, hcrc m d inv othcrr that had mars handicapsthan I have. 1 ihrv? t m good Iha,lrls and ,ha, ,"Pans r101.''Nn.29: 'Just kwp trying and dnn't ever gir~up. Faithin God has h"l,l?d "I?: I could al,
omPone dre for anything 1 wanted. The thaught oi noincotnr or money cumir1g in. The idpa of knowiny thatI had worked fur it, ~naking my living as r lrurkdriver war a wastc "i time and I would nevci driveagain. Theidca of not bcingrhleto dancc urgo huntingwar hard L" got used to."Nn.lR: 'The worst things that I had to pet uscd lo were,he probloms wilh my bowcls and bladder. Not beingablc in rake par, in sport."No.19: "I war an rthlets (baskcthall in roll?ge) md 1hurt las, nlmmpr. It w u hard ra rcccpt the fact thatI wouldn't be ablc B play sports again. Than whetherm). girlfriend would acccpi me and lhus my frriornitybrothcrs would rpacl. I was rfrrid it would rff?et myyolinger bmthcr. 1 fcel kind of nut nf place in a crowd.Anulh~r thing, people who nrc close never accept thcirct that won'( ~alk agin I'm warned abu3 ,heirreaction if I never do. MY iallier Ihar SPC a ihra~.yca~limit, hop? 1 can b~ up by than."Nu.20: "Still I feel nothing has hurl me. I have had nosol barks whaLsoever."N0.21: "The hardebr thins was b~ing with my fricndrwho h~allhy and nor bc able tu paniciprte in allthe To have tn sit and watch a 1,al game mdknow that 1 can', ,lay. Lo ir? my friend5 dAncing andnot he ahie to dance. Somctimer 1 get embmraacd nhoulsomc "1 ,I,? thine I havc to ,I" as a ,raraple@c (pushups.spasms, and emptying urlnai ba~~). I have ronqueredit. bll, once inn while, I notice it again. I worryLO" much rbaut presilrrc rurei: flli3 is 0°F 5ubjcct ,ha,is ~""~Lanlly 0. my mind."No.22: "When1 got hurt. I was i. college md cn~aged.When thc engagement bmke up a year Idler. 1 thoughtwhat ru thc urc of goins on or doing mf hing, lore mycrstlps down. Alwryr beon indrpnldeta. to havc 10 dhpend en someone else and whcn someone dn?sit pcrformas 1 E~~IcI haw, it maker il hard. The=ttitudp of tl,e genprrl public bethers ~ne. Dan', like lohave p?opl? paint nut that somebody's
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YC-CI walls. allowing murc bluud e llurv lo nutlyingL" 3prcaJ m ~"ouph o,ber units ,hat thr muscle again=.-as rnd awry from the herd.brromri funclinnrl.'rcnsiun hcadacher are responding to biofcrdback TI,? ~l~~t~~~yogrrph i* used lrcq~wnrly for mtarl~tminillg thratwh thc usc ,1 EMG inrtrumenrs. Dr. eualur,iun md pr"gnoiis. bu, its uic is the fiold "1Thomas Budryt~rki and Dr. ruhar~r~ SlilYi,aol the Ilni- n,,,rrlc rc-cdul:atinn ren,ai,a rela~ivcly unexplured. Alvsnily01 Culuradu Medical Ccntcr place EMG leads on brra, Mmnrcci, M.D., formcrly hcad of the Dcprrl~the patient's foreherd. Llriaxation ni ddr meselc is a mcni 01 F .I~~trn~y~~m~~i>ymd Encpphrlu~raphy of thcruut them somc Yuxr brprthinpex~rriser. Aftw the ihrcc n>onlll'r trrininp pcriud, "nelhali buur three tin^ a WCC~, were ahle 10 itop .I1o~cdication lur high hlood lpr~.rrurc and rpwn morcreduisd their modicrLiuri by thir,ythrec lo six,y percss,. F'oar more ,\,ere somcwha, in,pn,red (4). K. K.Daav. M.D.. of Rmmhrg. India. has had ~~~~iformlygoad~PSLJIIS\nth hypcncnsirr patients usins r prilrrirn ren~tcrcd on Yugv relaxation oxoiciscr wilhurrl lhini~~dback.HP lhas emphasized lhal continuing pmcticc is tm.isentialfur main,rining impmvcmm,.A uciy arliv? gmup of muarchers, ,:ombi,,ed ta formthc Diofccdback Research Society. hmrcl u~ir hundredipapem n thcir annual nicning in February. <strong>1974</strong>. inCmlnrado 5prin.s (51. ?'!#*re s ~ ~ pr~senl~d i p R-s~rrrhe~~ from horpiwlr, uniucmiiisr. and private cen- fur the pasf twanlylive gears (6). He finds ICYCT~(err all rrrorr ll~r rnuntry. 'Topics cavcrcd biafecdback ~iuupr of prficnts can belielit from EMG $raining. Oncin lcla!inn to arthnrr, epllcpsl, dirbrtea, ~enrion and includes palirnfi xith ~~~~idrrahle mnouni of latentznlgrair~r lierdrchcs. rardio-vrsmtlar i:nntral. ih>p~nen- fa."iian. or mutor unit potcntia1, prcrent -,bass withain,,, issumsir, muscle r??ducati"n ail?" prrrly,i*, the icviriihl~ phyliuIorical l>lnrk. sevcrc caural@~ (hurnterchillg01 racial exprcrli~li lo ihr blind, md othcrr. ing re,~ration due to psriphcral newc injury) whichTIIP possihilily is growing thal hioieedback t?rhniquesmay si,,l,llelnrnt ar cvci, rpp1rcc prrrrription drllgr in"'my inrlaricpr.they have forgotten how to iranrmit impuixa, lieweirljilries in whicl8 li!r ,?ewe has rcgenerat-d bu~ disusealrnnb? exists. and parlirl newc injtlri~s. Anothcrerou,, *rr ilmae rnth scusrc naralvris in whirh O~re isA. rrpr. dirtinc, from t1,a so far disrursed but onewill, g r ~ pamihililicr l lor ll!e futurc aisu, is the isre of . . ..biofccdbark in shoning murclr tpnsian ins,rad nf rplrx- ~paienfb awl hhar sren fulrctiol~al isiprov~m~nt in sus,c.rtion. Tha is tile li~ldol mosrlr re-education.A ,I,ir,l grrmp rrc svuke prticnts whu9e rerovrry isVnlantrry murclrs aie srdo up of many tiny motorunits, CACI~ ,,nil being campored of groups of indiviclllalultinlrtcly dependent on thr ntwnlh~r of nclve ~ rllr iurvivingderiruvlio~?. Surprisingly, his work has nvl ?nscrlt-ledfibcrr,all led hyoncncn~c.l-l!espm~i~r~~nils. liuni mmy other rerearrlhers into i l field. ~ ~wlvn arliv&i~d. give 011 elertricrl impulses wbidi cmAt Cdsa Colinr H~habili~~lion Horpitml lLcrllrr~ Sohnbrpivkcll by ~le~trorn~~~~a~~l~i~~initrumrn$s az~d mn. M.D., itsal ihp hioieedbruk rnellind with icnrlmkeconr~rtpd ihto suuncl or showit on a mrlrr.pali~!?~s, all morc tilan a vsar posf-struk~. Hr found rixIt lhar hmi iound ihrl romriimri in r pamlyzpd mos- out of ,he ,en gained in abiiliy to lift a fun, and fuur "1clu rutlle 118esc minutc motor ~nils have la~stplpr- li~ie wcrc able to disrard thc rl~ort loot bmr~ (7). Thctricrl actir,ity. This means the nrwc ir rlill operative.B#al th? indiuidurl has nu wry of knorinr of tho~csr,.eri,"~nt proved u> soccesslul ,l,n1 hinfocdbaek trainingir nu,v rolltiso with all stroke palinll. i\s Waller,70,s.,ially artivp units unlcsr ,l,ry are rl~monrlm,?d to R. Tuhbs. Ph.D.. a n~orollrsrl~ologiitat ihp illiircnitylhi~n. Wilh an rleclromyomotcr as a goid
"lhcrr can be no quertinn that hinfeedback as Dr.Johnson ia using it i3 going LO enhance - pcrhapsre~olaiionim - thc ficld ul murclc rehahilitation."Thir ia whm my great interost licr. Afler a ypar 01biolrcdback training I, parrpleec at thc T 11-12 levelfrom an autu injury eleven years ago, am continuing to=&in almost drilv in muscic abiiifv. Ridine an crcrcirebike, no hands, isn't exactly th? routin? expected of aiiRy-five-year-old paraplegic muihcr. Ncvcnhclcss, lhisis what I am doing, thanks to my physician. MitsuyaYamreuchi. M.D.. Hmhel Toomim u i Biolcedhack REr?arrhInstitute, md biofeedback training.11 has been exaclly a year now ll~at I have bocnworking with Mr. Toomim. I can aucsi s Lh" fact thatlhis (raining hap hren instrumental in fi~c rc-developmsnl01 enough muscles to allow me to pedal an sxcrciaebikc, to atand with braces I>,>, ~ilhrnlt handsuppnn. to kneel supported by only one liand. .Thesneuilrqem~nt ,hat has colne from knowing that 1 warmcrcirinr thos. bits "1 murrlc hrr been more thanpnough to kcop mc crcmising and ,l,ereiy str?n*heningthe a~tive muscles. Mypragcss has bcon ~unli~lualover the ps, year and I expect mnrr prmgrerr in thccoming yeu. 1 have dcscribcd ihc pruccsr in detailelrewhere alld will selld a copy Uf the ,?port to anyoneintercstr.d.Thrr~ ir almost nothing in ihr litcraiurc corlcerningpanplegia md hiofeedhrik. According to MedicalWorld News, March, 1973, Dr. Jorrpll Rrudny of NewYurk Universill'r Mediral Center was rhle to hcip aquad with a thrcc-ycar-old ihjury grin enough arm ronvolto feed and shrvc himzcll. lisrslicl 'Soumim is lhav~i,,g samp lurrPirer with another parapicec and is illtuucll one or ~wo who are also experimentins withthc mcthud as we am.In any direussion of hiofc~dback trainins there aressrcral points lo be made clear. Riofeedbrck cimrs notdo anything ta you. It is you rho do tho xvork wi,h theaid 01 feedhack which tells you whether nr not yoiz arcon courrs. This n1canr ,,a,ience and "crrislrllce rrp~. .lowing the pill. Not so with biofeedback. Stmnuour~l~ysical and/or montrl ullun ir called for in order tobe ruccsssful. But vietory i~ sweot and makcs all (hosehotin of toil worth while. The inrtrumene are small (1have a cry ~ en~i~iv~ Taomim Eleslmmyomef~r - highsenaitiriiy is ilnpnrtant in muscle m-eduaaliun) and canbe tired rl lhomc rill, gairlml:~ hy a cntnpetont psrson.As with all health mrttcrs can must be laken lo dpalonly with rpliahle rourcps 110th of equipment and (rain-~ ~ing.In order to be patient hut pemirten, over a longperiod one has to believe. Whatever one is striving foris pussible. My physician. Dr. Yamawchi. ~"~a,,~a~dme fa believe in the natural healing pmec~ses of thehody when given the right chancc. Following his guidanco1 had been making slow hut rt~ady progress aver afour-year period before I began biofeedback training ayear ago. I wap convinced recovery was possible and soit har hmn relalivcly easy tn perawere even thmughthose inevitable periods of noapparent pmgrcss.In the end, then, it is the peaon himself who willarhipv? his own surrerr through hiofe~dhack means.Today's tcnlaiivc biofcodhack apclimcnts may bacametomonow's established frcLi. But those estrhlirhed factswill dppend on the persistan"< of eno,,gh of us LO pmvp~hr viability of the hiofredback conrept.Localion of some biofeodhck researchershhrvioral Science3 Ccnar, won l.~uderdale. ~lorida: Univcnityof Caiordo Mcdical Ccnfcr. Dcnuor, Colorado; Har"ard Medical S"h""1. Boslon. Maraa~h~arils; Ilnivtrsity olHourton. Hnuston. Tmas; Inrthtr for U~rearcll in SocialBehauiur. Berkeley. Criilornia: Tile Mmningei Foundation.Toprka. Kansar; Univc~ity nf Milnich, W ~jt Germany; Psyehopadic Hulyiul. I"*& City. Iowa; univW3iq "1 NvnhCamlinn. Chapel Hill. Nonh Carolina: University olTennesrzr.Knoruilic, Tennessee; Univrrsity of Tomntn. Missis..aug.. ontano. Cmnda;Trini,y Collwe, Dublit,. lrelmd: andVandrrbilt Uniucmity. Narhville.T~nnrrrrt..Inlormation on the iocationr of bidsodback researchersmay Le vhlrined from the Biolrrdback Rcacarch Suciay,4200 E. Bh Aumuc, Dcnvcr. ColondoM220.REFEUENCB1) Biofocdbrck - Teaching Yuvr Body m H ~al Irrclf.John I. Fried. Redr.8 Disst. May, <strong>1974</strong>. pp. 11&~~~~~~~,Thc Pain ~~hibililni~~ Center, S.C., 615 So. 10thSt..LaCmlsr. W1,Wl.3) B!nlr.dba?k in Action. Medical W",klNilu,, March9 ., 1971 . . nn *. 4.7.67 . .4) Yoga and Biof~cdback in the Managornent of Hypertension. C. H. Pnrl. The hmt. Val. 11. #7837.Now. 10.1973. pp. 1k53~5.5.5) Binfrcdbark Rercamh Socirty Absirrclr. <strong>1974</strong>.4200E. 9th Ava.. Denver. CO 80220.6) Applied Elxtromyography. Alhrno A. Marinacci.M.D. h a and Fehigcr. Philadelphia. 1968. Ciini~alCase Srudis liluauatinli Nevmmurcular RE-educa.tion. Chap. 27. pp. 265-274.7) Muscle Rv-odt~crlion in Herniplcpla by Usc of Elecuumlu~raphieikwl~c. Hcrhert E. Johnrun. M.D..and William H. Grnon. RFT. Archim of PhysicalMdkinr o d Rshnbilit,,'ion.1973.<strong>Vol</strong>. 54.. No. 7. July,
dle chapsticks instead of a spoon, and my swollcnankles we~e reduced r bit, I'd he +te pleased.""We can', promiae anything, hut I think we can hdpAcupunctureDeep MassageAn Occidental quad.employed as n librarian at theNational Palace Museum in Taiwan.describes the surprising results ofhis encaunters withOriental aeupvnctvre and deep massage."I had slothfully ignoredphysical therapy, exerciseor exerbon of any kind for several yearsprior to the treatmenu dscrihed."Outside tho housc was s small garden with a bahblingbrook: in3ide the house was a j ars waiting mom witha babbling nunelreceptionist, who took my blood pressureand had me fill out a form: name, nationality(U.S.), ailment (polio quad), attitude towards acupunc-,urc (enthusiastic or skepticai?) ...Thia was an acupuncture research center in Taiwan,China. On? of the docion, fluent in English (anotherdoctor has a child, ii ,hat's the ward, at MIT), had apreliminary inteniew with me:"What da you expen fmm acupuncture?""Well, nothing, really. But I've been under prcsrure togive it at^. If my hands wore impmved so I could han-A nurso puah~d my wheelchair hack ta thc men's wealmentmom (the rexer were segregated), where half rdorm patients, in various stages of undress and withneedles sticking out af riau us portions of their anatomies,wem sprawled on fables or chain.Every fifteen minutes or so, a doclor would comcaround and wiggle their nsedles. This manipulation, Iwas toid, made supemuous the a~d-frshioned techniqueof burning moxa.A Dr. Wang studied my char,, looked mc over closely.thcn barksd out orders: "Rall up the pant leg! Take offthe shirt! Needles!" His nurse ruahed to obey ,his mostdramatic of ,he several doctors who tmatod me, pmsenting him with a uay-full of acupuncture needles ofvarying sizes, embedded in alcohol soaked cotton. Withthe flair and 61an ofa great chef ah the heat of inspiration,Dr. Wangsclected a needle,whiQed it info the air,and deftly jabbed if into my ieg beneath the knee.This war painless at ,he point of insertion, but w m ~thing like an electric shock flashed down my log to mvfoe. Another necdlo went into my leg, and atill anotherin mv shoulder: no effect. The last needle went into mvarm neu the dbow, and my shackcd middle fingerwentrigid.Thia flash effect. 1 was told, followed the meRdiansystem of acu~nnrturalore - ouite distinct fmm thoUtes, three times a week.I got to know some of my icllorv patients, many of themforeigners. There was a para from Panama. who readBobbv Fisher on chess and K-naaliis an ,%rho thepi8 been helped? Not yet.. .A para fmm the US. got inv, a noisy argument with adoctor, fanatically insisting ,hat acupuncture wouldcure the bladder infection he'd picked up, while theacupuncture doctor patiently tried to penuade him ,ha(he needed an,ibioties.I talked so much about these and ather effects of acupuncturethat a friend complained ahaut my .'holierthan-thou"a,,itude.
Was it hdping my polid' A nune took daily o~casurcmenis01 my cdcma-swullen ankles, md iherc was adecreasein the aim. Ru, ,hi% mdthehot flasher,were the "nly elf~ru. After liftccn irealmenls. l yieldedLO the persuarivc wiles af a nurse-fncnd and swi,rhcdto kung Ifi.~~t~ally, it was dcop massage 01 a kunglu type, rdminirteredby a live faiths (Taoism, Chrirliani~y. Bi~ddhism.Mohrmmcdanism and some "the. -ism) orpization,male and fcmalc adcr~ts wurc blue robes. Their>V~OS~ipirit-mscarch soci~ly home was a Jrprnesc housc(shoes are lcl, at ,he frun, door, where one sxvitches toslippen) whose feq-rhwi- (or sitint. assoding to thewind and water rpiriti) was panlcularlv auspiciour.The buil
GermanMy ihrrrpiit here in Munich rtretcher methoroughly each wsck when she comes. She lifh me onBreathing Treatmenta towcl put under my back around my ribs. (1 lie on amarl Thia lifting rtretrhpr thp musclpi which inhale. Ifthcy am so had, they inhibit ~11e muscles that cxhaie.Exhalation is cspccially wcak ails1 breathing paralysis.and so important. My physical therapist developed thistrratmcnt herself - and il works wonnerfuily.I was horn md niird in Seattle. Vasl'ijhinaon. I siudicclthe Ilniv~rsity of Wrsllingtan md rt Yalc DivinitySri8uui. In 1951 1 marricd a Cermnn. Wallpr Crpprl.I nwd only seven hours ul paid help each week inorder a run a hollschold for four persona. Hoivever, our~d lator boro two children. I hccamc aculcly ill with children take turns cooki,,g dinnzr. This pves me timopnlin in 1959 anrl !USPC~ m i r lung ~ m~d rocking bcd and energy for writing poctv, md even for painling. Ifor cigh, .unths.set up hboforc six each morning, go to bed a1 10 p.m.Nor after fiftpen years1 ivrlkrround thc housc push- If I have to go for ar long as 1"". ur fivc wooks withoutingmy i~hcrlchair. I sic mure than 1 walk, of rnl~rr?, lhut trratmen~. I feel fscwc and know I need a thoroughI cm,rrlk slowly wth canpa if no person or dog bumps stretching to ease hr~afhing. I hope my experience? willinto lllP 1 \"",kill LIIZ kill hm vlld lllterlri to ,hcnrrhing help someone elre who is disc"ur8~'d hbccsuso he can'tmachinc-mostly rtnndingbccaiisclc~n'llill my arm, breath8 as long spontaneausly rr he did some time~nnugl, ~llil? lit fill^.pr~viausly. Hardened muscles can cait*c lhaf a n dTllrr~ !we bee,, so inany pmbl~~~= that ive liave they are easy to rlicvialc, temporarily, at ierst.rolvcd uvar thu ysars. wc 1i*vc tnkun many iri,>s, i"~ Tho roccific mwrsec which is so heloful wzr develcludingtwo to tl>e Strtes. My huibrnd rr r prof~rsurhem, as,l liar be,, di,~",i,l~ ,I,* pr"tillcLinn of pducrtiona] fllmr for ihc schunla ,hasc irart live yrrri... .T ~ must P importantthing1 ha"< lcarllcd is ,ha, ciarv Dutch. m o will translate if into F.nelish? 1, is ersipr fnpolio - no ,matter lhow ivpil lhp may brcathc. rho," ,he method than tell it in words. isanyone coming*I all - nrcds rrgular nlaxrrge and stretching ~ h i ~ ~ therapist ~ y ' whocould ~ ~ "isit h ~ ihr S~ C~O~I i ~ ~ ~01 spcciiic kind to hclr, kerp ihr in~rcurlal trl~lrrl~s in Heidelberg f", a dw'! It ib on the d thonnd 0th~. brerthingiisauc rs ciasric and soft as punible. Orthopedic Clinic: Onhoprdirche Klinik 69 Heidrl-Ti" "Par aga my brea,hing warm poor that 1 was berrS
Charcot-Marie-ToothSyndromei,y Hnm H. Slotr"You hrvc Chawnt~Mrrie-Tooth Perunsal MllsrularAtrophy. Dm. Charno(. Mme, md Tooth isolated (hesym,,,ums of this malady ,many yprrs ago. hencc wcrefcr to i~ lhy their namos. Peiunerl rnt?ic~~lar atrophymerns ,ha( the nerve cells that conncct iu (he muscleshernrne darmant or dic, we're no, 3ll.P whirh, catsinsthc mur,:le. to do notvins bccause thsy arc"', ,old t" domythinp. 'l'hercfure, ,bey atrophy."That canrorsrii"" ,uuk "la
Friendsthe WorldNews from Alberta, Canada"Our respiratory polioa are as busy as ever. In the fall,they and thc rehab depamnent were tnnsferrd to thoAberhart Hospital from the University Huspilal. Themove is only a couple of blacks (md the Ab~erhart Hospital is part of the Univcr~ity complex) but,he imp,""ements are ,remendous: individual rwmsmher than the large ward areas: good lounges; oUiee,.,: ,tio: ground noor rccoss. ~h~~ had their mdi-tiona] Christmas Party and the hospital auniucd, so I'msure they will get along well. Thc paraplegics are alrabeing cared lor at the Aberhart and wc look forward toa better level of care. Here is what has boon happeningindividually to our respiraton polios:"Henri Baril, who is completely ~~~alyred fmm the.a down, war married a couple oi years ago. He wasmade the father of wins about four months ago. Trumendauslythrilled, as you can imagine. He ,nay beelevated to full membership in the Internarianai Associiation of Mou,h and Faat Paintiw Arlils.they cm handle."Jeanie Mark was married in October and is living inhcr own apartment as Mn. Gadon Packer"Connie Kowalski did theramc, marrying Rill Clark,who ir in a wheelchair and who haa lnultiplc sclerosis.The provincial Deputmcnr of Social Develapmcnl pay%all their cxpcn~er, to the nine of something like SWa month."The horsemen, Clayton May and Bob Johnson, aretill in business, but involved in rebailding their stable.They now have three honcs."Gar" McPhcrlon eolltinu~e as orcsidentaf the Para-I!rn.l, i,I,r,.. .\..,I I, ..,..,111, 11 11, I,.., .,, , . . . . r'I l,,,,,.. . l,t1.1,,: I,.':< . . .. .r . . .I, 1 ('41,1111.121 11 ,,.!, ollll-.l,ll,l,frorn Quebec last summer, and a similar numbcr fromEdmonton are planning a return visit to Montreal. Thcfunding is prav+dcd by the federal gnvernmml."Generally, the climatc for lvandicapped pcaple isgood: ,ha provincial Government har made help to thedisabled one oi its pnuriiies: the city of Edmonton hasr~mperi downtown intersections, put up excellent spe~cia1 lor-income houring, and is working on impmvcmen-in the transporta,iun syrtem. Morc and moredisabled are taking part in a first-class recrearion programrun by the City, one of the "Pry bes, in tho counmi.And more are going to schuol and university,allend~ng ,he community mlleges, finding employmenland genenlly taking (hair rightful place in the community.I, is amzzing how much the cause of the disabledir bsing pushed, first hy the disabled themselves, andsecondly by thcgeneral public. The days whononly thespecialired ascncier were involved in pu~hing forchange have hopefully disappeared. Now, it seems. thccasc for the disablcd ir ~veryone's concern."Pierre Ganem, Ezrcu,;ve-Drmcror, run,rdion PampkprcAssocia'lon, Alberta Di"r?ion, Fdmontan Re&,&l0V96124. Stmez, Edmoun. Alberta T5M OH8. Cana&.Pen friends wantedgeneral. Ii any olller readers havs similar intercsls.plerrc gct in touch with me. Again, I would like tom~respond with ather college people similar to mypelf(born rilhout arms or lags but rreac artificial limbs)."Temy Haf/nei, 46W Domrroui Di,>e, Fon Wayne, Id-on0 46825."I'd love to know others with Charcot-Mntidrl'uo!h sowc could correspond rhaut mutual interests and pmhlems.I find that sharing ideas with pa,ien,s is ","dlmare pruiitable than all the doctars, therapists, andrehabilitation ccntcrs combined." MiIdnd hemon,Apt hB, 18.5 &st 162 4., 7b Brom, NPU, Yurh 10451."I enjoy music, reading, uaveliw, photography, sketching,and painting. I callecf antiques, Bookmarks, handerkerchiefs,and foreign Christmas cards. I am amember of CUSA, DARE. COPH, md Hmdy-CapHotimns.I have done volvnfper work in a hubpital. I amdisabled by rheumatoid arthi"." Yuonm M. Row"=, 12850 S. pamr12 AW., chicago, nhir 60628."I like ta feel I am a'John.y Applereed' type ofpPrson,with a mirsion in life of scauering pusitive, beautiful.in~piraLi"na1 'sscds of goodncss' as I wheelchair my wayup the interesting aud potentially packnl 'Pilgrimage ofLife.' Fur a irrc inspirational packet of materirl. sond256 for hrndling lo: &I Scrin, 518% IY Marha $1,Aberhea, IYnrhingUn 98520""I am 59 years old, 41" (losing each time they operateon my hips for osicu dgenera,ive arlhrilis). Jur, hidm" right hip operated on ""0 yoam ago and a Charnlcyplartir hip implanted. It wra not buccessful md oneyear latsr Lh0 hip war rcmuvsd and il is still healing. I,is called e girdlebtone type of operatian. I use a walkerbut lnair~ly a81 elpctric wheelchair hut get up md .urlk
with a cane ar holding on to whalevcr is araund. I justwm'i give up." Mrs. Ray A. Wpr, 32 Maion Rd.,Hollywood, Rorida 33023."Although confined to a wheelchair by theknuwn as Friedreich'r atwin, ev*ry F"day nightfm ,hcpast eight ycars 1 hrve been going off the deep end, andI am more than proud of it. To pmve my swimmingability. 1 have so far collect~d five Cups, four Certific81e3.3e"c"Badges. plus three Pmficiency'Badges." A.R. Smith, Fmnklin Iloare, Sham Wsy, Roundrhaw, Surrq. E"gi0nd"Do yon know where a lonely paraplegic could correspondwith a group or another paraplegic? I am 25 yearsold, been hwt seven years..' Alhn qeu, 1201 S 9th any helpful idormation." ClorenceR. Sip, Jr, DrqfliqAvenue, Yahimo, Wrnhingtongt~ 98902.~ ~ ~ ~ Yirrnia l u , s,m ~~~llerr"o~, 500 spring street,Richmond, Yir~ink 23219."The last Gmeue had convihufan from remote parts ofthe world bul nathirlg fmm Africa. I would like to keep"1 hrve been ,lying toget in touch with fellowcpilcpticsyou pmlod an Lhe Republic of South Africa so that all ovor India hut so far I have not heon quite 3uccesP-Africa is reprpsentd. I would like m have manufacrur ful. Apparently this is not samething you declare inen send brochures and ~hotomohs. .. to use in artidespublic or acknowledge. I wish ,he American branch ofin South African magazines. (I ama C4-5 quad.)" Lam epileptic sulfemn would also open an Indian branch."RinL, P. 0. 60% <strong>17</strong>1, Clocofan, 0 , Free ~ St~te, ~ ~ "Risn&hip's ~ Door helps disabled ~~ople to get toRSPE~LCknow each other bellcr by taping 1eners as well as bywriting. Ear more information, wrirc to Moti~&be,"I was horn with spina hifida in 1938. My hobbics and 544 NE. 121 Smi, North Minn~i fir& 33161."activities: free lance writing, volunteer work at localmul,ipleSclorosia dub, pen pals. like music of all kinds,fishing, coin coilcding, reading, like ihc country betterthan the city." Saarr Ruxen, 3244 Nonhamplon Yreet,hoeiacidn de Lisiados de Jdiseo,A.C.Wilhes-Barre, Pen&luomia 18702.EFmm 44% Cuodolojara, JaL. M&&...I'his is my first letter ," vlits in Engli9h since I wasbarn. I have be-,, in hospital with the spinal cord injurysince three years ago. The other day 1 rcsd Rahabilia~tion he'& in Japanese. I think it is real useful for ,hedisahlod." Yavnyuii Sorundo, c/o Kyokni Hospitd, I44Layoko Om&, Rbm~Gun Hohkaido, 049257 Ja~pnn."I am 30 yean alrl. 1 cams to the U.S.A. in 1971 with,hc Handy-cap Hurizons tour. I am disahlcd with rheumatoidanhritk. I cm walk a little wih help 1 \?went mIbira. a link island off Soain. . . with the Yollne DisabledCluh lart year. 1 would love to wri~etu a parapelgir manhstann tho ages of 26 and 36who likea t~aveling. I lovelo w"te and get lettors.)' Geo78b~ Rwm, 10 Homecrofi Cardem, Lufihu,n, Errex lGl0 3R8, Erwhndpumles and teleuision."MisrShirleyLee, 5064 I wodRoo4 Wea Palm Bmch, fir& 334.04..My hobbies and pastimrs: stamps, coin=, postmarks,pen friends, match covers. and reading. I am r 7th DayAdvont
Numeroros inn lo5 prablornas quc la psnuna lisiadapttcdc ,enrr. Algunusde istor son tmgrrvebq"edeiinitivamenwmnvi~rt~arl liriada en un inuilido, incapazde haccr ale" ,,or si miamn.la Asacirci6n dc Liriador de Jrlisco, nacib haw algodp un ma. del ideal dc un grirpo dpi6uenoa lisiadusdr unir nueslrai f~wr%ar prra ayudarnus "nos a los~tros, y ha tomado cumu ruya la responsrbilidnd dellogo dc lu riguiente:I. La Crrari6n de ana Rcvista E~pciialiratln doInlurmacibn de Rohahilitrcih a Nivel Internaciollal.Exist? nlvrha literat,,ra dc cr,e lip" en i"~lP3.llacr laIcx ldeq~,ival~ntr en nuestro idiomr, yrqup arhemo~ quc la inlurrnaeidn er bisira parala rcaliricibz~ d~ curlquicr cmprera. h a pcnn~lirirdrs ncccrilan inlarmacMn rriacinnadra ill5 proI1lemas quc 5"" mliltiplos y
Equipment7h GAZETTE daer na a-pr any odvenirbnp lb ~ 6 6 6and 6 dswcn. prerrnradbm zrrrc ~l
or outdoors. with cqu*l ?rip and safety. Only22" wide,i, has r contcmpur*ry lih~rglaii ~ll?ll that COYem tholrnrnr and mechnliim.Tho cost "1 the deielopln~nt of r chair dosipn suchas mine hrr drrincd mv availi1,le lundr. I wmt to finda r~iirhlp mrnufacturcr intcrsned in pmducin~ muchair. 1 oll~rlr??engine~n"grisirtancsin crcllang?forr modcsf md fair royalti un ljrorlhlrtion irlri. FinancialrPlUrliS from royaltlci on my prndllrl d~iiglir Ti?,,luwcd back inlo new pmduct durclopmcnt. 1 dun', eelkh. hit 1 enjoy seeing olhers h~?~efit lrnm my ideas.My dortnrinsirted thrt I rctim Irum lizll-time rmploy~mm,. I nun drvv,e my ,imp to th? dpsign of 5pccialrdr~fiue rids for tho diral~letl. 1 also work with theI New English WheelchairsTh-y now hrvr r special launy~. vans, and studentalristanlr to help wi,h mm.ementr about thr casil>us.I iivc in a rcccn~ly~o~plel~d ihomr which I dcsignccl.It has vide doors,
Integral Anto RampMore about vans and Lihs . . .The 1973 Coxetc had a rpecial feat,~w on %an, and lifts.Since then. there have been chanps in addresses, r "ex.mmufarturrr, ra well as improvementr.Addre* chang~s: The Rraan Corpnratinn (Save-A-Step), 1014, Suulh Monticsllu. Winim~ac, Indirna 46996. ' R. I. Chrir Lift Companv. Inc.. 7228 Wcrt Madison.Furesl Park. Illinois 60130. 'Now manufac~isrcrs: 'I'hc SwingAway electric hy-,draalir lift is mado hy Mauon Induslricr. Inc.. 1964~ JSln~ronI Aye. Huntington Park, r~iifnrnia 90255.or Mrxon Indarirics. llighway 11 Soulli. Box 1089.Monroe, Gearpia 30655. Thc Chcnoy Company. 7611Norlt# 73rd Stw~t. Milwaakee, Wisconsin 51223.Branchcs around the cuunfy. Wnle fur brocllure andneares, dealer.Tiic driving scat 01 a DAI'44. A~~tomalic wa* n.n~uusdand a foldingramp incorporalcd into tlic rill of ihc car.Tho floor section was lowered four inclws to reduce theangle "1 he ramp, l'hr rnntp war spring loader1 LOcnahlc rhcrhcclchaircd drivci tu lorsr and lift and foldthe rrniD unassisted.,lot, between the dwrnllrl the wh~elriiair. Hand drivingcon~mlrvcre instrllod md variuiir uthcr small modilicationseffected by the West-Town Motarj Ltd. Hudd~mlieldRoad. Deiushury, Yorkrhir~. England.Wheelchairs & AccessoriesRmrtional -~~ ~Wheds rile creative Mr. A. 6. Gsrrishas revii~l this iniormaliv~little hooklet, r handytorrse imm: A. G. ~ ~ R~II~. ~ ~bililalinn Coniultmt, Swte Dcpapanmcnt ol Rrhabiliwa,,.RI~CI~O LO^ ~~~i~~~ H O S ~ ~ puildin8 ~ ~ I 214).7601 Eart Imperial Highway, Domey, Callfurnia90242.New slslirclimbingwheellbsir Alter six years andf""rmr proto,ypes, a chmhine. chair ha= hcsn invented hya parrplegic merhanirrl dcsipn expen. Pmdu~lianmdcls will he rcad~ about Ortoher, <strong>1974</strong>. Henry Mc-M&~. Rout- 1. Bm A-36. Saunderstawn. Rhnde lalanrl0287.2.i97*Y,7i,,mrXYII
Adapten for easier whedimg A pair ul Wheel-ezeinlhllc,l on most rrmdard whselchairr ilbcrprses both zpced and mecha%~iral lkv?rrg. Docs nvIir~terlere with ~vheebhairportability. WherlL~reCompani.P.O. Rux 561. Kenmare. Washington 98011.~ ~ n ~ ~ - adult p o tricycle ~ ~ o he d Pedricrrnc,nay Ib? manvrlly or rleriricrlly operated. Purlahle: disasrcrnblcdandrc-aaaemblcd carily. Weighs94puund*;load capacity is 3M-pnund ndcr. up tu 5M ponndstala1 iuad. Rrochure available fmm: Enclun Products.Iamcs Roscrrch Division. 1 Morris Avenue. GlcnCove.NPW Ynrk 11542.Dun1 raoge propodonal power attachmentTl~is 12124vol~ unit givps ,nore powor far rprrd andmmp-climbin8 and also provides low-range contmllcdsp~~ds, M~torette C~rpmrntion. 6014 Reseda Bode-"ad. l'armsa. Calilornir 91356.~ ~ i ~ ~ eunrro~. - ~ ~ ulli\ .,.,,.ily~ ) tn im Orriglit rid" nf mi rfanziard mvlorircd i~herlrlxair. MoloreiteCoryuni>ur~. 6014 Rrsedn Boirrrrd. 'Tannnn. California91356.CommunicationsCummusicalio#~s wurkrliupr ssiics will be held in Pcb~n~ary, March. and April in Chicago, Boston, and thoWest Cnast. Directed to clinicians and iuniveni~ier chattrain cli!~icians. Title: Na~iunal Workshop Scrics lorComrn~lnicaliun Altcrnativcs far the Non-Yard Scvcrc-ly Handicapped. Contact: Warm P. Brown. 922 E.R.B.. 15W Johnson Drive. Madison. Wircunsin 537m.MiscellaneousSAAH. The Saab 99 rnudcl of the Siredish-mrdc car innor rvriirbleia th? U.S. willl n~ccial squipmmt lor the(lirahl?d: hmd-operated brnkcand acceierntor ronlrolr:r lronl seal that cm be turned 90 degrees and purhcdoueide the dnorstpp ahonit four inuhcs for easy transfer.AU~O Diatreaa Flags. Four briglit, plastic, rasurled"Help!(( flaw in a parkpt. Doup Norman Aslnrirtes.305 Anys Strcol, Vicluria, Texas 77901.cc~olp"flag. vin$ ,~ith built-inhan~er imprinad %it11 wh~eiciirir symhnl awl "Hplp:'Drhr Distirsi Aids Signalr for th? Ha~~~ii~.n~~pcd S,,rictyID.A.S.11.). PO. Bur 133. Ddir. British Caiurnbia.Cmrdr.Emer~ncy aignnl. Conucntional clcctric alarm clockwith brillimt red flrshpr light, ~isihle a q~artr~.n~ibaway, is aulivalrll rither h) Ihorpi,ally,'"swiirh nn mdof crtcnsian curd ur by alarm ii it is no, rl,,,, off.Availrhle from: N-P Cnrpomtian. Bm 1<strong>17</strong>. Srrriotr,1~10ri~In 33578.Hydm.Slsltie Mauress. War~rfilled mattrcn r pro^vidcr cliangh rcsilicncc tu relirvr wpigilt 011 bodv's PCCS~W P points md enough fimneir to rllnw mohilit).:'6 n bc usad on ordiriary bcd fmmr and needs no herbing devices. Free brochure: Stebco Industncs. Tnc..1020Wesl40lh Street, Chirago, Illinois 60009.New mouthstirk holder? Our IBM repairman jug-Remote ContmlsInformalinn on rcmote control rvrlems ia avrilibis immIl,c lullowing derignerr/sianuInctu~c~:'"Geni?." derigoed by Dcxn Tougrs. 923-23rrl StreelEarl, Seallle. Warhiwton 98112.."TuucL Opcrdtcd Seiectar Co~,lmls." Dcpanmcnt ofNational Health as " ~ >I#L>,S~"~.~ ~ ~Cost as about SR. Drirluj,rd 1,) Slmsr~x 11. tlil~kr. R.P.T.. IJ.01 Orepo,~ Mrilical School, md aiail~lir from: UCP U'urk.shops. 54<strong>17</strong> Southrasr 721>d Avrsae, Pnrilal>d, Orrgnn97206."l',,AHILIT*TI"N C m r
Bruaaee PegeTumcr. Activated hya scnsiliv~ ar"Itcha lap~-cavcred roller glides over a book or magvine toturn a Switrh is uprrahl~ by chin. shot~lder 07VI'R. Inc.. 26%7 Toll AIP. N.W.. Warre~l,Ohia 44485.Readers' Ideas.4dapting tmuaem to a leg urioal. "Men who weara Icg and liave rraablc will) nrrrow leg trousersmight ihave a tailor ur anyone handy at rewing split Lh?leg inscam at the bottom up four ur fiv~ inrhcs asncccrsrry. Thcn sea it, a matching trirnglc.3h&pedpiecs 01 rnrtenrl. If thir is pleateri nud presicd lirrlllyil will rwy nearly closed. If n~ed~d onccauld add snapsvelcrn to keep a CIU~~~." J , ~ szarkr L 2101 6thSnn~blu//, Npbrorko 69361.tlip pmleclion lor ambulatory CP males. "1 amcerzbrrl palsiod (spastic) with an rrvkward ~ ait and ancclon,orphic build: I weigh only 112 pn~mds. In themicldle 1950'5 1 lost !marly day3 01 work Leraase nffrequonthardfallson hipr.'l'heincanvcnicncc 01 eitherlyi~g on r hertingprd nr soaking in r tub set my mindt~~i,,ki,,~. idea to find kind of hip paddingchar ceizld be pu~on anrl cakcn ufiquiekly. 1 foandthe dosircd fitting i11 the form of the eld.btyl~ brskcfballl~i pads that tie on. I.a!~r I found that pads could becut to sim from a used mattrcsr bcd with W clolhtrpe tn ti? o~l. The inrrmie in mibt merruremont fhcncreated anolller yroblem, lilrgrrrired panl and alsothinner pants had to bc purchased. Full-cut pants raihcrthan narrow Ivy League style am recornmendod. If onew~rm a lower bark rapport, a 118" thirk lplt pad canla rewn un ihc sides tu corcr hips. Long oliter jnckecsalso givp added pmterrion." Comlnents wclcomcd byI~P a~~ll~~r. Rcymod H CrrenbcxJ 68 GmmrmmealrhDrive Wes!. Ponlod, Mnim 04103.M ~ " t h ~ t i ~ k oasaettetsperecorder.. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ t ~ d "TheSrnyo AMFM Radio Cassplce Rprordpr model numherMR 414 PF ($149.95 hcrr is Canada) is the only "nilI havc rcon where the d. ry hiittan can bo ~urhcdown~and it %,ill slay d~~wess~d until ~ Xr~rnvdP huttnn canIbc ~pa~hod." .Jm Wnllace. 4195 Nnpier Yrrei, Rurnaby2, Bntiih Cnlumhia. Cannh.Lang.haodled shoe horn. "Since my rigidity inuolv~ihips as wpll as spit~e, I need an ~rtra-long shoeihom. I xulvcd chis problem by suldcrine r sliorl r~cclrhoc horn to r long length of old-frrhionpd coat hrngerwirp. 11 doesn't look prrlly, hat it really pals !lie shoesun without strain.'Roh HiLt, 1182 Wnrren Rond, LakeluoodOIL~O a107.Thcy are rrcil for opening jan and bottles. I use ,heconncctors,,uu, as an cxtm cannectar h*,wecn my cathetermd the cxtonsion tubing. 1 1,avc ,,u, ,he rtraps anas loops on 111. hinm chat frcquontly fall ta the flonr,pons. combs, mirrun. I pickthomup,"itl, r
Books & BookletsARCHI'I'IICITIRALW,eelchair Interiors. By Sharon issue lists thc publicaliolis thrulighHAKKIEHSC. Olrnll nsd Dirnp K. Meredith. lune. 1973Thc booklet ia free fro",:wcll-ill"s,r*lld. ~lcdr pr?s?nlrli.n Offir? 01 Puhlir Aflri~% Snrirl mdArchitcrlural Karriers to theoi mcfhu~ls 01 adapting ur I,#lildir#p aI'hyeirslly Disabled. By Mm. S.Rci~abililriior~ Scniie. Ucg~, ofblnrli,mnrl home for wheclchrir liv-Kirklrnd. 1973. Crr~rdiar R~hrbili~Hcrlth. E~lasntiun. md Wcllar~.~ng. 1973. Nalior~ai Faslrr Srrl SorirationCouncil for the Dis~hl~d, 2ndwrihingon. nc. 20201.cty larCripplcdChildrcr~ rnrl Adt8llr.Floor. 242 St. Crlirgr SI., Torust~.A~~dioviaurl Aidr Directnl of2023W. Ogdm dr~nuc. Chicago.Ontario M5R2N5. C,tir d~srriptianrHoui? Puhlishcm. 81 Ccnir~ AYC.Wheelchair Sightrrcing in Mia.and comparrtivc dalii "1 diagnosticnuc. NEW RucIIPI~~, NPW Ynrk 108souri. Ry Viryini:q iMrrshrll. Anlaciliti~r in the US. md Canaili. Al-01. $6.95.ailraclivs 88-page honkl?t. it is r \ ol~~ ~ ~ prrsent~,l, t i romprehcnrius,~ ~ l ~untccr prnjprt lhy ti,? author, WINO CLOTHESIPERSONAL CAKE rncl clear. 1972. Harbler iu Row.5viiI 5-"d i, ire". W,,i,? ," Mrs. Mar.P~~liisb~rs. Inc.. 2350 Virgir~ia AveClodles Sense for Hrndiesppedstvrll a4 2607 Salrr~ Rurd. Brunt-nac. Ilagprstoun. Mrvland 2<strong>17</strong>40.Adtslg of All Age. Chrrmin~ ilhlswood.Mirruuri 631.14,.56.95.~ Crci\irr ~ rpproacll ~ in ~ r ,\,id? i ~ ~ ~ ~ .Barrior Free Design: A Sdeclsd asiortmcnt of problems. Uisahlcd Help for the Haodicappd Child.Bibliography. By Pc~cr Lassen. Livi,ng Follndrtion, 346 Kcnsiwton BY I:IV~C~C~ miner. H~I~~UI E U ~ ~ Cnr~'l!i!cclunl coordinrtar of Prrr~ Hieh Strrr~, I.ai>dur>, W14, England. for paicn~r. A rl~rpter is devoicd slyrcd vclerrnb Asin,.irtio,l. <strong>1974</strong>,. L1.50.simplified infurnlatiun un each of thcPVA. 7315 Wirconrirt Avunuu NN,s,aj,,r illne5ses. listing ,he iieallncntFootwear br Problem Feet. ByRethenla. Maryland 2Wl455.ccntcrs. rervirer. and co.ccmc,lMI. M n. c~~I,,,~ L D ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~rg~ncies. 1973. McCvw-Hill BookFoot Hospital. <strong>1974</strong>. Uiril~lnl l.hirlgHOMEMAKINGCurni~anyy. Hieh~fown. Nrr JemcyFni8ndrrion. Addrpis above. L1.25.08520. 57.95.Indcpende.., Living for ihcPersonal Care. A *callit of lafor.Hmdicappe,l and Lhr Eldcrly.Spanish-Laneage llealth Camlnrlion on orcr" pharc "1 FruurnlripBy Flirrbrll~ li. May. Nrvr R. Warm.nirationTenching Aidr. 1973.and mileting. including brihroum~o~IP'. a$#tl Elcanor B. Huuc. A veryPublic Rmlth Se-cc, Drpl, 01layouti, S~OWPTS. "ommode chairs.rcadabls and loohable book, rritll rHealth. Eda~.ali~~n. md Wellarc,ways ul dcalirig ivitil isrontinenr?.cicar and prrribe ,?\t md nvpr 3W5600 Fiihcrs lane, Rockl,illr. Mrrmd]"cvc"'ion "i prDIsurr sums.photoprpl~s. Persona with vrrinils\,land 20852. F~cc.1973. National Fund iar Rcsrarchdirrhilifiei rr? oirturpd oerlnr8ninein,o Cripplillg Dii?rsei. Vincent Guid~ to Audio~aual Aids fora vari~ty of Lumpmrkin~ and livinfiac,ivi,irr. Topics include: care ofchildren. sncciri clnthinz. work rim^plificrtion principles, r'crgy~dvinglerhriician, dcriccs, toolr. md sportsmd rccrcrtion. Appendirps ii~vli>duHuurc. 1 Springliald Kus CU.. ~ ~ o ' r ~ ~ ~ ~ , aAid. By Hnwrrd D. Brnnha mdSL.. Burton. hlrsirchur~tts 02107.89.95.Pl~blicaliona of the Social and<strong>Rehabilitation</strong> Scnirr. Thr IntcrtCharlrs J. Opp~r~L~irn~. 1973. Pab~lirrlic>ni, lnslil$tlr 01 Krhabilitation
Medicine, NYU M~dicrl Ccntcr, itWErst 31.11, Street. Ncx Yurk. NrwYork 10016. $2.cade+ Without Stroaa andStrain$ Shortcuts for Lean ActiveCudenera. Charles Scrihn~r'rSsnr. 597 Filth Avenue, Nerv Yark,Now Ynrk 1W<strong>17</strong>. $3.95.LeiauveandGardening. A dcligh~.ful book! llirlud~s ideas an,:orrespondcncc and s,,,dy: naairand an; mllcctinp: rrwiw. knitting,ham radio: games, sncirl, aportr;1'P". crmcras, bird wa,chisg, SC"",~ing, and extensive illformation ongardening nidr and melhndr. 1973.Nrtinnrl Fund lor Hcscarch imuCripplingDireases.VinccniHuurc, 1Springfield Road. Horiham. Sl~rscxRH12 2PN, Espiand. LI.05.MISCELLANEOIJS MEDICALArthritis Manual for dlliedHallh Pmfessionala. 1973. TheArthri,ir Foundatian. 1212 Avrnurof ti18 Americas. Nor York. NcwYork IW36 Frrr.Ilomc rsm Programs in brthri.tis: AManualfor Patients. 19691.The Anbrilis Fuondaciun. Addrcssabuue. Frcc.hnhulation Cuide for Nuraea.Ry Lois Sorcnron and Parliclr G. UIrich.1074. Dept. 59. Sirler KennrIlistitote. IRO C1,icaru Avcnuc.Minn~rpolir, Minncroia 55404.$2.25.Lising ComlorLshly With Yourneostomy. By Daden* lano,,.1973. Sister Ketlciy IIISI~IUIE. Ad.drcss above 81.25.OVXRVIEWSSewicea for llandicappnlYouth: A Program Ovewiex.Fin, of l,"" rcpons h?Th? Rand carpurntion.1973. Publicaliuns Dept..Ti~r Rand Corporalion. <strong>17</strong>00 MainSt.. Sanla Monica. Crlifortlia W06.55.I(l.t,"l,ilil;,. ;.in: "8, i.nfa,,la,. in,,..g,2,l. l'.,.!, ,,I \I , . , a . ,.r. I,. . 1, ,,\,,1. 411. .Icrntror dc rrhrhili~rciin.arocircinnes,nrg~niim." ,priblicos y prira-.lea el, Espaiia, Francia. y Estrdo.Unidur. 1972. Editorial Virenr~Virpi, Ada. de Sarrii. 132.. Barcelonal7. Espaiia. 210 pcseirs.Legal Rights of the Mentally Herarded.Puhlishcd by the PcnnsyluanirAssociatin,, of Relarded Citir~nr.<strong>1974</strong>. Scionce Pien. . Eohmla. , . Pnio~rylvania. <strong>17</strong>522.Your Rights a. Pamnla 01 aHandicapped Child. CoordinatingCui~itcil lc~r Han$itapp~rl Children.407 South Dmrborn. Cilirago. Illilioir60605. 1969. 501 plus 10q,pos,age. (Spnnisl, edi,ion, srtneprice.)How to Organim an EffectiveParent Group and Move Rureaueraoies.Coodinatil,~ Councilfar Handicapr~d Cbildrctl. Addr-is1971. $1.50 pirlr ma postage.Legal Rights of the Dirabled a dDisadvantaged. By Hiclrard C. Al-1en.J.D.. I..I..M. 1%9. U.S. Covernmcn,Prilltilig 0llil:c. Washing,"".D.C. ZW2. SOU.National Center for Law and theHaodieapped, Inc. Eslablirh~dwith grm~ from HF.W. Staff includeslaculcy and students ol Nolr~ Damelaiu School. Functions: public ed~"ration and legal t~chnical asrist~*,Ire. Coume on Ha.dil.rpped andthe law dpuelaped during 1972spring bcmrsler and repeatcd on r?g~olar lhabil: mll,~-rial lrnm courseto indiridual~ ur other lawsrhoali. lo~cpli W. Kunz, W.D.. ex^s~ll,i"~ director. Marcia PcrmsBurdurl, prnjrrt rttornc". Address:1235 N. Eddy, So&rli~ Bend, Indiana4b6<strong>17</strong>.SEXSex and the Handicapped: A SelectedBibliography ( 1927.1973). Ry C. Sclmanr. M. Mayer.r~id Dr. M. Eiscnbcrs. <strong>1974</strong> VssrArlininistrrt~on Hospital. 10701Easl Rlni.. Cl?v?lmd. Ohio 44.100.Sexoal Problems of Patientswith Spinal Lojories: An h.Lstednibliography. Dept. of PhysicalM~dicinc and <strong>Rehabilitation</strong>.S2<strong>17</strong> Cincinliali General Hor~ital.234 Goodman Strcct, Cincinnati,Ohin 45229. 52.50.Prsotical Sex Information. WakingWoman Press, c/o Hackmann.1637 N.W. Kings Rlvd.. Cnrvallis.Or-eor~ 97330. S2.50.Sex: Rehahilitstion'r Stepchild.Prucsrdirlgr of the Workshop "f NationalPara~legia Foundation. June23, 1973. Indianapolis, Indiana.Avrilrhle from: *PF. 333 N. MichiganAupnue, Chicago, Illinois60601.$2.50.Sexuality and the Handicappsd.By Millon Diamond. Ph.D. Reprintof r senaitivc and forlhrirh, ariirl~.Requcrt Puhlicatlan Numhcr A-242from: Educa~inn md InformationServices, National Easter Seal Socir-ly, 2023 W. O~den Avcnuc. Chicago,lllinuis 60612. 10a.SPINALCORD INJUREDInnova,iona in the Toul rare ofthe Spinal-Cord Injured. Pmcccdinrsof ihc Cunfcrcnse of Na~tionrl ' ~ ~ Foundation. ~ ~ Junc l ~ @ ~20-21. 1973. Indinlapolis. Indiana.Avaiirhlr from: NPF. 333 N. MirliiranAvenue. Chira~o.Tllinuis60601.Prooeedioga of s seminar onSerene the Soioal Cord.lniured- .Client. Cosdt~rvd a, llte Wprl Virpinix Rohabilifrfion Ccntcr. O~tubcr2426, 1972. Avrilahlc from the editor.William R. Phzlps. Director. RP~gionrl Counselor Tiainine Progrrm.Wrrl Vireinia R~hahilifaiion Centsr.Films: Quadriplegic FrmotionalSkills - "Dr~ssina." "Rowd mdRlrildcr Techniques," "Shaw~ringand Grooming" "Driuit1g." P.0~dured a! llle U. ~flllinoi~ a, Urhana-Olampaig". I'rcc rcnlal for short-1r.m ,irccan hcarrrnged thrn,,gh ,heMedia Resourcer Rm,icl!, Na~iunalMpdirnl Audiovisual Cmer (Annex),Station K, Atlanta. Georgia30324.
Editors' potpourriWc rllnf~d on ,hp rddrcss "1 Oli Yon, OI~,, in thcpublicnlionsliated in lI,r 1973 is-ucol ihp Ckzntc This1hrli~Ril publirrlion rorcrr inniy facets u! ii~dppcndcnlliving. Avrilrhlc irre lmm: C~r#lii~b>irig E
REHABILITATION GAZETTEAVAILABLE BACK ISSUESIn oddition lo th SPECIAL mATIJRES timd b s k Uuirrue.7 ro*in A", pmn a,- of?& B ~ " O, Uu ~ ~ ~ 'srurrrly dilobkd in ahi(nming A&-&, rdwaion or training."drn~,?"', m&,o,bs.h"J~mi~limm.,t, d'~hf"1 RrnrP"I.0rn m0d.od.x omud rk mrld ho"minghir livrs.dsrrli~pm,'&d.1962. Vdome V. Nomher 1Quldl On QOmd~msI-8 *wid ZBPSEI-LY~ollhe(~pc~"me- "1 ~"sd. .cq"i""s high.rrduwlian by Vlephon.. e.mrrp"nd"n~l,and.Itmdanec.6q"ipme.I -ding .id#. r~l,.a8.n,
1969. <strong>Vol</strong>ume XI1Qu~lripl.@cU.ing-,hrRamp ForHome*ndCP. - ir.,:,,I"",,lilllyud in lllr~ommanil".r",,,rnd ,drHans. Art. Mu#ie.PrsrAndPIay.*rehi,sa,"mlD.rri.ra.E*u..,i"n. Emplo).m..L.A.rBooklet. And P.ridida.Trs.,. Spom And Rlll.nloll.Spinal 64 injury Cmtm. Nniod I%raplnds Fonnd..lion. Sderte.3 0.5. Psridids.<strong>1974</strong>. <strong>Vol</strong>ume XVIIT..rsl - 10.- C.l"r. on travel m Gnad.. Mlli.". rnmlEuro,,.. r..:...,i"n.i ~~hi~l.. I", Ihr.h..lrhair.d, xh,.",,.b,,,ad.,ravci xidl inpin,an.Aeb.61UUUom Act of 1913, Bills of Rlghl*. eoalillans.Ed.o,,.o/hployn~",;"a "aritLy" ,rc,,,s.<strong>Vol</strong>vntr.. P.ajsaslor ihr Di..Lld.- laws ,".l"r. "n *r .xyrrirn,.nAobMa-ra.Br..u~".li"n. by d"rl"r.*di".rn.",. t., "le.bili* - ronmrnc b 30 SWl.Bio,db.., in Reh.bi,iwian- np."mrr.,,lr -.%.Ceman B-thin. Tmaan~L Ch.racMari-hth SFdrone.Asui.lion deU~Iadol dr J.lh, Medw.equipn.nt- n*r ~ h . * l ~ in h ,hr ~ ,IS. ~ and E"%l."d. "namdl,