Dear All
I have Aspergers Syndrome with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD)
(also known as Dyspraxia). I have also been diagnosed with Dyslexia. So you
can say I have a cognitive impairment? It is only within the last 4 years I
have become aware of my impairments after accessing my medical records and
finding out, that in 1968, aged 5, I was diagnosed with 'Clumsy Child
Syndrome'; and then in 1976, aged 13, after I was placed in to an Adolescent
Unit after the death of my Father, diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder, Depression and Anxiety. At the age of 37 years old I have now just
been diagnosed with Aspergers with DCD.
I have struggled to access the right treatment, therapies and support and I
am well aware of the Community Care Act 1990, in which is supposed to be an
enabling and empowering piece of legislation towards disabled people? But
who has the 'Power' in deciding what resources and support are provided?
Social Services Department. Where I live they have done an assessment of my
needs, but this has taken me 37 years; and 4 years since I left my mother to
live independently. I have had continuous conflict with Health and Social
Services to acquire a specialist assessment. They call this empowerment ?
I will point out as Gill Dixon has mentioned many people with Specific
Learning Difficulties e.g. Dyslexia, will have many problems with spelling
and comprehension. I myself have great problems understanding some of the
messages in which are written. Technology can be empowering for some, but
disempowering for others. If Singer, believes Disabled People with
Cognitive Difficulties do not have equal rights to the same quality of life
than others, where is his prejudice coming from? In reading the various
e-mails he does not believe in Human-Rights and Citizenship. Does this mean,
that People with Specific Learning Difficulties have not got the right to
live?
If so, We would have lost some of the greatest 'creative-minds' e.g..
Einstein and more recently Bill Gates (Aspergers Syndrome), Richard
Branson(Dyslexia and Attention Deficit Disorder) and Actors/Actresses like
Tom Cruise(Dyslexia) and Whoppi Goldberg(Attention Deficit Disorder) and
more recently the British Photographer David Bailey(Dyspraxia) and many
more.....
Regards
Colin Revell
Research and Development
Adults with Dyspraxia Support Group
England
-----Original Message-----
From: Gill Dixon <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 26 October 1999 18:18
Subject: RE: Cognitive Impairment
>Thank you David.
>Gill.
>
>Gill Dixon BHSc Hons, RGN
>Independent Dyspraxia Advisor/Trainer.
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of David
>> Pfeiffer
>> Sent: 25 October 1999 23:38
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: RE: Cognitive Impairment
>>
>>
>> Actually it is Hear! Hear! in the sense that everyone should pay
attention
>> to what is being said.....David
>>
>>
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> David Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
>> Resident Scholar
>> Center on Disability Studies
>> University of Hawai`i at Manoa
>> [log in to unmask]
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Center on Disability Studies....maximizing individual
>> potential by encouraging independence, self-determination,
>> and full participation in the community.
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Gill Dixon wrote:
>>
>> > Yep, but I guessed that no one would be petty enough to correct
>> spelling on
>> > a disability list. After all I might be dyslexic!
>> > Gill.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: [log in to unmask]
>> > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jim
>> > > Davis
>> > > Sent: 23 October 1999 02:57
>> > > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > > Subject: RE: Cognitive Impairment
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Isn't the expression "Here! Here!" ?
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
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