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QotD: Overcompensating
Feb. 13th, 2012 11:59 amPeople with disabilities
are never more disabled
than when they are overcompensating.
--Siebers
are never more disabled
than when they are overcompensating.
--Siebers
We Need a Little Wonder
Jan. 16th, 2012 07:49 pm"The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph."
The Butterfly Circus
http://vimeo.com/17150524
22:35 long and well worth the time invested
The Butterfly Circus
http://vimeo.com/17150524
22:35 long and well worth the time invested
QotD: Disability
Jan. 5th, 2012 08:59 amThe human race is so puny
compared to the universe
that being disabled
is not of much cosmic significance.
--Stephen Hawking
compared to the universe
that being disabled
is not of much cosmic significance.
--Stephen Hawking
Acromegaly
Dec. 16th, 2010 10:36 pmWhat are the face, skull and foot changes seen with acromegaly?
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Two airlines (Westjet & Air Canada) have instituted policy to clarify the service that the Canadian Supreme Court says they must offer. The legal decision from last November is that an obese person, because they are disabled, should be given two seats for the price of one. On January 8 the Canadian Transportation Agency ordered the airlines to make extra seating freely available to disabled and obese travellers who require it. The original thinking of the disability law was that a disabled person's nurse/attendant should be permitted to accompany without paying the second fare.
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