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Create Your Path To Success Disability Awareness Sharon Fallis Advocacy & Leadership Consultant

Create Your Path To Success Disability Awareness Sharon Fallis Advocacy & Leadership Consultant Shawn Guinee Self-Determined High School Student. Our Mission

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Create Your Path To Success Disability Awareness Sharon Fallis Advocacy & Leadership Consultant

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  1. Create Your Path To Success Disability Awareness Sharon Fallis Advocacy & Leadership Consultant Shawn Guinee Self-Determined High School Student

  2. Our Mission The mission of the CEDD is to collaborate with individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to improve quality of life and community inclusion. California Statistics • 240K people served by Dept of Developmental Services • 50%+ are under 18 years old [39K between 14 - 21 years] • Less than 2% of Californians with Developmental Disabilities have gainful, sustainable employment.

  3. What do you think of when you hear the word Disability?

  4. disability [dis-uh-bil-i-tee] noun,plural-ties • lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity. • a physical or mental handicap, esp. one that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from holding a gainful job. • anything that disables or puts one at a disadvantage. Dictionary.com

  5. What Does Leadership Mean?

  6. Students Defined Leadership As . . .

  7. Do You Recognize These Leaders?

  8. Do You Recognize This Leader?

  9. Ed Roberts Ed Roberts (1939-1995) was an international leader and educator in the independent living and disability rights movements. He fought throughout his life to enable all persons with disabilities to fully participate in society. Ed was a true pioneer: he was the first student with significant disabilities to attend UC Berkeley. He was a founder of UC's Physically Disabled Students Program, which became the model for Berkeley's Center for Independent Living (CIL) and over 400 independent living centers across the country. He was one of the early directors of CIL. He was the first California State Director of Rehabilitation with a disability; he was awarded a MacArthur fellowship; and he was co-founder and President of the World Institute on Disability.

  10. Some More People with Disabilities Woodrow Wilson Gen. Westmoreland Alexander GrahamBell Tom Cruise Wright Brothers Magic Johnson Charles Schwab Leonardo da Vinci Beethoven Henry Winkler George C. Scott
 Walt Disney Harry Belafonte Winston Churchill
 George Bernard Shaw Danny Glover Werner von Braun Robert Kennedy
 F. Scott Fitzgerald Carl Lewis George Patton Walt Disney John F. Kennedy Suzanne Somers John Lennon Cher Mozart Robin Williams Whoopi Goldberg Dwight Eisenhower Agatha Christie
 Bruce Jenner Sylvester Stallone Auguste Rodin
 Steve McQueen Henry Ford
 Napoleon Bonaparte 
 Greg Louganis Thomas Edison Jules Verne
 Louis Pasteur Tom Smothers Albert Einstein Winston Churchill Galileo Nelson Rockefeller Jackie Stewart Vincent Van Gogh

  11. Introduce Disability Awareness Within Your Work • Encourage acceptance, empathy and friendship • Learn to recognize the challenges & accomplishments of people • De-Mystify assistive technology through hands-on experience • Introduce positive role models who have disabilities • Increase awareness of the challenges for people with disabilities • Empower positive personal choices when facing challenges The Objectives of A Touch of Understanding;Granite Bay, CA

  12. Sharon Fallis, Advocacy & Leadership Consultant P.O. Box 254577 • Sacramento, CA 95865 (916) 612-2912 • sharonfallis@mac.com ~ Web Resources ~ http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/ddcenter/ http://www.dds.cahwnet.gov/ConsumerCorner/Home.cfm http://www.griffinhammis.com http://www.brcenter.org http://www.chiip.org http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/add/areas/EmploymentArea.html

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