Against All Odds overcoming the obstacles

1. Against All Oddsovercoming the obstacles By Jake James Communication 125

2. Attitude Don’t become depressed because of your or others perception • Self a steam lowered • Don’t Let the disability get the best of them • Be content with who you are, never give in to the disability

3. Success in school • IEP – Individual Education Plan • IDEA – Individuals with Disabilities Education Act schools offer special education to those in need • FAPE – Free Appropriate Public Education

4. IDEA • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act • Created 2004 • Law that tells how schools should provide the right type of specialized education • Covers those with disabilities from birth until 21 • Key in success of these students because provides the right accommodations for the students to gain confidence and become successful

5. IEP: Individual education plan Mandated by the IDEA+ a specialized unique plan for the student Meet educational needs for a student with a disability ( both mental + physical ) Complete goals more successful than normally + helps teachers provide a sense of help and accommodations for the student

6. FAPE • Individualized to a certain handicapped person • Not just for education however • Through this law the school+ government will help the person learn how to succeed in school, employment, living on their own

7. ADA • Equals the playing field • Provides accommodations from employer+ government • companies are not allowed to discriminate against those who have disabilities

8. Daily difficulties • Transportation • getting dressed • Showering etc • Getting up in the morning • These are the daily issue that many have to learn to overcome

9. Rehabilitation Act • 1973 • Prohibits discrimination in programs and services • States no person who is handicapped should be excluded

10. Dan Liest • Research department for Met Life • Process insurance claims+ bills • Has muscular dystrophy • Can feed himself but cannot shower • At met life he has equipped phone + comp • Loved there at his job even though his disability has derailed him • Says he is humbled and felt as though he is an ambassador for his disability

11. Pam Holmes • Deaf early on in life • Wanted to become a music teacher • Attitude: there was reason she became deaf • Advocate for people with disabilities for a living • She had a goal of overcoming it

12. Bethany Hamilton • Pro surfer • Age 13 shark attack amputated left arm • Thought she was never going to surf again+ something within her changed and her drive came with the new perception of life • Less than a month later she was back on the board • Had to get back on the board because of her passion

13. The Gaze • “ The human is self conscious, conscious of himself of his human reality and dignity” - (Wollen 92). • Ways people view those with disabilities is a whole other challenge • Not part of the norm- outcaste

14. The End • Have to learn from experience • It is easy to say or tell someone to change their attitude outlook on life but it has to come from within them to change • Success does no come easy have to wait and work at it