Muneera and I are partnering for the next assignment, it was very interesting to look at the low tech items that Barb presented today and realize how effective some very simple applications can really be. I guess firstly when you stop and think about eye glass that improve your vision, hearing devices that enhance your hearing and a magnifying glass which supports your reading, are all considered low tech.
Sometimes we tend to take some much for granted so on that same note why is it so difficult to surmise that people with disabilities are not able to figure out ways to help themselves. That is the big AHA moment, people can and do think for themselves and find ways to help them, even with their so called limitations. I remember last year in my very first course the professor saying why is it that we always want for fix people, maybe they are fine the way they are; that change the lenses in which I viewed the world.
On another note I was looking for awesome YouTube videos and came across one about Jenny McCarthy and her claim that she cured her son from autism. She certainly has been an activist in the autism world, talking about the cause and effect and how a simple vaccine can bring on the onset of autism. Not sure how I feel about all of this because if that was the case then so many more people would be looking at ways to cure their children. Diet, exercise and moderation in life tend to keep us on a reasonably healthy path, not sure that it can cure disease? Then of course my next thought is what really is autism and how can she make such claims, write best selling books and speak on national television and not ne validated. Certainly the medial community does not agree with her finding and does not think her son is cured, or is he?
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