Video of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan

The following is a repost from BoingBoing for those who might not have already read it:

Wow! From Coilhouse:
Helen Keller — inspiration to generations and inspiration for an entire genre of schoolyard humor — and her teacher and friend Anne Sullivan in a clip from 1930 in which they describe the way in which Helen learned how to speak … It’s a fascinating little clip which pays homage to a woman who, even beyond her amazing circumstances, was a radical socialist, suffragist, and supporter of birth control, who was friends with the likes of Mark Twain and who worked tirelessly to champion the rights of both the downtrodden and the physically disabled.
(Via Richard Metzger)

Disabled People Dating Other Disabled People

I don’t understand why people seem to think that disabled people should, want, or need, to date other disabled people. However, they do. I wonder if the author of the article called Disabled and Dating: a Step by Step Guide is herself disabled? I doubt it. I’m not going to start into how extremely useless the article is: all the advice it gives is universal, and it doesn’t offer even one specific tip. I rather wonder why on earth an article like this needs to be written in the first place?

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CSUN: presentation deadline tomorrow

For those of you who might be interested in this kind of thing, the deadline to submit for the 23rd Annual International Technology & Persons with
Disabilities Conference at California State University is tomorrow. You can find more information at this website.

Story from Blind Programming.