By G. Michael B.
On Friday, May 15, 2009 I began the final weekend of the 8-month, 8-weekend ‘Partners in Policymaking’ advocacy class for people with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities which began back in September. On Friday I presented my final project: Traumatic Brain Injuries & on Saturday we were give our certificates of graduation. There were 28 of us in the class, all ` from somewhere in VA. We stayed at the Sheraton Hotel at I-64 & Broad St.
We learned a lot in our class about advocating for ourselves & to stop using negative words like “disabled”, “handicapped”, “special needs”, “suffers from”, “afflicted with” and DON’T APOLOGIZE!
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