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Published monthly by and for the Members of ADAnet, the International
Disability Network.  Copyright 1992, American Disability Association.
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                           Table of Contents

First Word......................................................Page  2
Special Thanks!.................................................Page  3
Opinions and Editorials
  On the Fly....................................................Page  3
  Heresies - Planning Revolution................................Page  4
  Camels' Noses.................................................Page  7
Articles
  ADAPT in Chicago - Reporting Live from the Front..............Page  9
  ADAPT's Mother's Day Flyer....................................Page 14
  From the Many, One - Part One.................................Page 16
  A Children's Bill of Rights...................................Page 18
  Cancer Prevention Food........................................Page 20
  ADAnet File Distribution Reminder.............................Page 21

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  Dwarfism Informational Workshop Report........................Page 22
  Muscular Dystrophy Association vs. Evan Kemp, Jr..............Page 23
  AccessAbility Associates vs. Muscular Dystrophy Assoc........Page 28
  Excerpt from California Democratic Party Platform.............Page 31
  Candy is Dandy, But... .......................................Page 33
Miscellaneous Information.......................................Page 34
Upcoming Events.................................................Page 36
Messages Worth Repeating........................................Page 37
Beautiful Thoughts..............................................Page 44
What's on ADAnet - An ADAnet Echo List..........................Page 47
Assoc. of Disabled Americans Membership Form....................Page 48
Indica..........................................................Page 49

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First Word

One  of the advantages of having the first word in this forum is that it
is  the last thing  to be written  for JADA.  The disadvantage is having
all  that extra time to worry about what should be said.  Right now it's
a toss up between trying to make a parable out of spilling six ounces of
one's favorite twelve ounce beverage into the ol' keyboard while heading
toward  a deadline, or trying  to come up with something pithy, humorous
and  insightful, about the number or articles in this month's issue that
touch on some flavor of activism.

How an individual feels about any particular action of activism probably
depends  strongly on how closely  one identifies with the people staging
the  activism.  If the XYZ  Protest Group turns  out in force on a given
day  with banners and slogans, there  are sure to be folks who will look
upon  the event  as just  a rabble  of squeaky  wheels looking  for some
special  grease.   While  other  people will  see  a  consortium  of the
oppressed seeking an equitable access to freedom.

Who's to say which view is more accurate?  How do you decide whether the
XYZ  Group has grievances  which should be  addressed by redesigning the
ship  of state for the betterment of all, or is the XYZ Group a bunch of
malcontents  who would like the  current ship of state just fine so long
as they could feel their hand upon the tiller?

Who can decide, who can say?

As Smokey Bear once said, "Only you."


Marlin Johnson
Editor in Chief

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                       - - - Special Thanks - - -


Our special thanks to these companies for their support with hardware,
software, and guidance:

BellSouth Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Roebuck Typewriter and Computer, Inc., Birmingham, AL

South Central Bell (Barry Copeland and Gary Patterson)

Randy's Computers, Pinson, AL

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                        Opinions and Editorials

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ON THE FLY...
By: Bill Freeman


Another month has passed us by, and it only seems like minutes since
I wrote to you last. I'd that time does fly when you are having fun,
but it flies just as fast while you work hard. The past several weeks
have been full of hard work.

There is plenty more hard work to do, too. Sometimes I lay awake at
night, and build a list of things to be done. That list is almost
always an item or two longer than I have time to get done. It is good
to have work to do. As an old friend, long since passed away used to
tell me, "an idle mind is the devil's workshop!" I still haven't
figured out what my excuse is, <grin> but lately my soul feels safer
than usual.

Looking over the articles that will make up this months JADA, I
believe the quality of our Journal is reaching new heights. I'm
particularly pleased to welcome an article by Mr. Robey of
Baltimore, who writes for us this month about camels and their
noses. We'll look forward to the next article in this series.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 3

Some of the most exciting news of the past couple weeks is the
coming online of Ability Online in ADAnet. Bringing many young people
with disabilities to ADAnet, we are pleased to welcome them to the
ADAnet family. We are also working closely with Ken Blystone of K12net
to bring a greater awareness of disability issues to educators and
their students, and to compliment ADAnet with access to new ideas
from educators around the world.

Equally exciting has been the news from ADAPT in Chicago. Did
anyone notice the paucity of information about ADAPT's civil rights
activities in Chicago? It just isn't every day that hundreds of people
with disabilities storm into and take over public buildings in protest.
While you may or may not agree with the politics of ADAPT, I
personally salute their resolve and fortitude. This issue of the
journal includes many "curbside reports" of sorts from ADAPT.

Finally, look next month to have Vetlink's DISABLED_VET
conference available via ADAnet. We hope that this will help bring
veterans with disabilities together, not just in America, but around
the world.

As a part of the America 2000 program, ADAnet is also opening our
Enable 2000 echo, sharing it with any other network that will carry it.
It is our hope that Enable 2000 can bring people with disabilities to a
shared forum, and that we can all benefit through further shared
experience in this way.

Until we meet again, we stand united. Keep your chins up, and keep
knocking those barriers down.

   -Bill Freeman

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While others HERESIES - Planning Revolution
By: The Heretic


It's time.  I can brook no further delay (shielded though I may be).
The deadline looms and no time is left for babbling or thinking, only
for putting ink to paper.   Fingers fly and words stream forth.
Naturally, you'll just have to bear with me over the short course and
then I'll be trouting on......

It must be something in the air.  Try as I might, I cannot get away
from the subject of politics (or was that pelicans?).  Lord knows, I've
tried.  But they keep baiting me with their seemingly unstoppable lunacy
(loonacy?).  Like last week when that ultimate of oxymora, the Senate
Ethics Committee, voted to "reduce" campaign spending limits to a more
reasonable rate of six million dollars per campaign.  Gee, it looks like
H. Ross has arrived just in time.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 4

I don't know which is worse: that the Senate cannot see what is wrong
with having to spend millions to get elected in the first place; or that
they still get to keep the money they don't spend on the campaign.
RAISING money has NEVER been a problem for these bozos.  Of course, you
can see the wee spot o'trouble from raising, say, 12 million but only
spending six of it.   All by the grace of the law(s) they pass to
benefit themselves.  Tsk, tsk, methinks something smells a bit fishy in
Washington, yet again.

I've long held that the American public blames the wrong idiot for
what goes on in Government.  The President (who comes off more as the
silver-spooned, bumbling buffoon that he is with each campaign speech)
gets the lion's share of the blame.  And I haven't anything kinder or
gentler to say about those others seeking the office at the moment,
either.  But there are three equal branches in our system of government:
the Executive, that is, the President's Office; the Judicial, where Bill
Freeman hopes to be some day; and the Legislative, made up of both the
House and Senate.  Animals often represent human institutions.  Our
national symbol is the bald eagle, although some, referring to the
president no doubt, favor the turkey.   I suppose the Supreme Court
could be considered owls, although crows may be better.  Certainly the
House of Representatives and the Senate are best seen as squirrels.

Congress must take it's share of lumps for the state of everything in
this country.  Fully a third of the blame; but they seldom take any
responsibility for their acts (witness the recent check-kiting scam).
These nuts-on-the-half-shell continue passing meaningless laws just to
demonstrate their hardened arteries still make it to chambers for voting
on something about which they have no understanding.  Largely because
somebody made a meaningful "donation" to their next campaign fund.  The
short of it is: our way of life is crumbling into compost under the
weight of too many special interest groups who've cultivated Washington
DC the way most work a prize-winning garden.

The thing is, as PwDs, we're just another special interest group with
our own agenda and our hand in somebody else's pocket.  Except, perhaps,
that our funds are limited and we're controlled by those outside our
own agenda.  So we're part of the problem not the solution.  Which made
me think we need a NEW way of approaching the problem.  So, the other
night, while in the company of some other free-thinking artistic types
gathered together lubricating our brain cells with a pleasant mixture of
fermented barley, hops and water, we all came up with a rather novel
solution.  Ready for this one?

We should gather all the handicapped people in the United States
together and we take over Alaska.

Wait, just think about it for a minute.  The climate isn't as bad as
you think.  It's fairly mild close to the coast where most of the cities
are; besides, more than two thirds of the country is inaccessible to
ANYONE disabled or not, so none of us get to use it.  And we PwDs spend

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most of our time indoors, anyhow.  There's enough natural resources to
build us all new completely accessible homes and buildings, train us for
whatever, get us computers and still do justice to the environment and
the native peoples.

It gets even better.  There's already a pretty strong secessionist
movement going up there so we probably wouldn't have to take it by
force.  Even with force, the world is awash in cheap arms.  We pick up a
few free agents from the ex-Soviet military or the World Football League
and a some used military hardware.  A few MiGs, some small arms, maybe a
destroyer or two from the Black Sea fleet.  Even a submarine.  Hell, we
wouldn't even have to house them - they could commute to work from
Russia!  Put our deaf in the artillery corps, our blind in intelligence
and the rest of us can strap a few AK47's to our wheelchairs; then we
kick ass and take names.

We take out the oil fields first then cut off the flow south while
making a deal with OPEC to shut down their oil shipments to the U.S. for
three or four months.  Just see how much they care to keep Alaska when
the Ford is out of gas!  We get food from the Japanese and the Canadians
(being a staple, of course, the beer comes from Canada).   We can
probably feed ourself off the fishing, alone.  Hell, the folks in
California may decided to side with us if we make the environmental
promises they've been after for years.

You know, we could actually do things right!  PwDs running the
country (should we call it Ableland?) from the top down and controlling
the financial institutions.  We can form trade alliances with Canada,
Russia, the Japanese.  Mighty scenic country, up there, so we build
tourism as an industry and have the world's largest lottery drawing
(natives ineligible - only tourists buy tickets which we sell all over
the U.S.).  Of course, we'd have to hire a few TABs here and there.
Naturally, we'd protect the native population (indigenous and controlled
immigration) and provide them better paying jobs than they could find
anywhere else.

If  we  lose?  Have  you  seen the  way  the U.S.  Government  pays it's
enemies, lately?  With all the disabled people in the United States
gathered together in one state (?), country (!), they'd have to pour in
the financial aid just to get the country repaired from the damages
caused by a civil war.  Just look at L.A. after the King verdict.  If
nothing else, that shows if your cause is perceived as justified enough,
the immediate political answer is to throw wads of money at you.

Besides, most people in this country wouldn't give a damn if we took
Alaska anyway.  They'd probably be happy to wave goodbye to us.

All this from one of the original 60's pacifists.  Shows how
frustrated I'm becoming with the way things are being run in this
country.  PwDs don't have a voice in our government - anyone who thinks
otherwise is either a fool or has something to gain by pretending

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otherwise.  In the cold, cruel light of the Morning-After-The-Night-
Before while confronting my bleary eyes with a morning dose of steaming
caffeine, this all seems a pretty far-fetched even to me.  Still, it
keeps coming back into my mind.   Something's got to change.  Either you
get the bear or the bear gets you.

Yet, if Washington DC, the power brokers and the politicos are the
only choices we have as caretakers for what was once a Garden of Eden
then, brother, we are into some very deep weeds, indeed.  Can anyone see
where we left the mower parked?

                             - tHe HeReTiC -

The Heretic has spent too little time with Daffodils and Tulips this
month, although he spent time reading about Tom Bombadil and Fangorn the
Ent; he looks a little like an Ent, anyway.  He recently booked passage
on the S.S. Minnow for the great north, but was turned away because the
boat wasn't accessible.  His weirdness isn't natural, it's cultivated.
You are encouraged to share your thoughts with this newsletter.

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Camels' Noses
By: Waddell Robey


Well, I have been asked to contribute a little something to the
ADANET newsletter so I hope each of you will bear with this small
contribution.

The issue, I believe is employment of the disabled.  A most
confounding topic, since there is much out there to confound the
efforts of the disabled to gain entry or re-entry into the work
world.

One issue, among many, is general acceptance of a disabled person as
a valued employee.  An entire cart-load of mis-es: misconceptions,
mistakes, misinterpretations, etc, along with just plain prejudice
present some very tough barriers.

For the sake of argument, and for the sake of seeking ways to
confront and confound the mis -es and the prejudice, I maintain that
a useful device is for the disabled person to initially enter the
work world in a voluntary capacity.

Good grief, why?  Well, one of the major mis - es is mis- conception
or misunderstanding.  All the rhetoric in the world seems to be
falling on deaf ears.  A possible answer is to present yourself,
personally, into the abled world.  If you wish, you are providing a
"demo" of your competence your abilities, your virtues, your

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humanness, your values and your contribution potential.  You have
within your grasp the ideal marketing environment in which you can
demonstrate a most important and valuable product - YOU.

Similarly, you have the opportunity to delve into your own feelings,
strengths, limitations and interests and from this develop a more
realistic self-assessment and a more objective career goal.  This
delving, is much more active than what I call "chair-side"
reflections, because you are doing the delving within a competitive
and abled dominated work environment.

But, I'll be darned if I want to stuff envelopes or take tickets at
a barn dance or some other generally un- demanding and
non-challenging activity.  I also resent being placed in some
"do-gooder" charity group to be a show piece for others to oooh and
aaahh about.  Well, these are very valid complaints, and this is NOT
how it needs to be.

First things, first.  If, you accept volunteerism as a possible
entry strategy, then the next step is to assess your skills, your
training and your interests, and your limitations in order to make a
plan.  This, by-the- way, is the same plan you would make for a
paying job!

So, what I would like to do, is take this entire volunteerism thing
and break it up into parts.  If this first part has grabbed some of
your interest, then in the next issue of the newsletter, we will
talk about THE PLAN.  I hope you will be there.  In the meantime,
send in your cards and letters with questions and ideas on the idea
of volunteerism.

Oh, Oh.........Camels' Noses.......that was the title wasn't it?
Well, in the Middle East among the bedouin Arabs, it is an important
practice to never let the camel get his nose under the tent, because
once you do, in a blink of the eye you have an entire camel as a
tent mate.

I see volunteerism by the disabled, in the right setting, as a
camel's nose.  While the organizations, the politicians and others
are making frontal attacks on inequities in the employment of the
disabled, you can be quietly sticking your nose under the
tent......that is, while others agitate......  YOU, quietly
INFILTRATE!

-Waddell Robey

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 8

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                                Articles

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ADAPT in Chicago - Reporting Live from the Front
By: Bill Scarborough


We are Bill Scaraborough (reporting live from Chicago, Illinois) and Bob
Gustwick  (distributing reports from  Austin, Texas) of the Yellow Dream
Machine  BBS  reporting  from  on  the  scene  at  the  Pavilion  of the
University of Illinois of Chicago.  It is 9:45am CDT Sunday May 10th,
19921,  Mother's  Day.   Soon  to  speak  at  the  commencement  of  the
University of Illinois at Chicago is scheduled to be Louis Sullivan, the
U.S.  Secretary  of Health  and  Human Services.   ADAPT  protesters are
stationed  at various places, both  inside and outside the Pavilion, and
are passing out leaflets.  This is all that is known at this moment.
Further reports hopefully will follow.]

.....

10:13am -- ADAPT protesters inside the Pavilion are being arrested.  Bob
Kafka  had unfurled and  had on display  the ADAPT banner hanging from a
balcony.   But at this moment  I see no sign  of either Bob Kafka or the
banner  and assume  both are  in custody.   The protesters  were wearing
ADAPT T-shirts.  From what I can gather, they were asked to leave
and do not.  But I do not know that for a fact.  It should be noted that
as  I  file  this  report  I am  not  wearing  at  this  time  any ADAPT
paraphernalia, and that my disability is a hidden disability.  So here I
am  doing a kind  of journalism inside  the Pavilion as the commencement
proceeds.   It should be noted to those not already aware that ADAPT has
been  trying to meet with Dr. Louis Sullivan and to seek to persuade him
to  concede points toward ADAPT's  position. It should be noted that the
commencement exercises are interpreted for the deaf.

.....

11:28am  -- At last  report I was  in the Pavilion  of the University of
Illinois watching the commencement address. For reasons unknown to me, I
found  a quick and  simple to walk  out a back  entrance.  There to join
maybe  50 protesters  chanting at the  main entrance  of the Pavilion at
10:49am.  I presume that others were at some other entrances, but was
unable  to verify.  Some police barricades were in place, and at 10:51 I
noticed that people were chanting.  A few of the protesters were banging
on  a trashcan as  they chanted.  At  10:53 a few  left to avoid arrest,
but  most stayed.  At 10:54 police brought in more barricades.  At 11:09
a truck arrived with a truck load of barricades.  At 11:12 I sighted

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a  paddy wagon.  At 11:14  new barricades were installed, and protesters
were  moved to a new  location.  A few were arrested for not relocating.
The  new barricades made the path to the West Harrison street.  At 11:18
police were barricading the whole of the side along Harrison.  At 11:20
some  protesters shoved  part of  the barricade  toward the  street with
their wheel chairs.  At little after that I left so that I could come to
a  local hamburger  joint  to use  the pay  phone  to file  this report.
Further news as it develops.

.....

I  file this report  at 2:05pm, after  learning more about what happened
this  morning.  Only  one protester,  a  woman nick-named  Spitfire, was
arrested.   Other protesters who were  in the Pavilion, or were in areas
where police did not want them were simply thrown out, and were let go
their  way.  The ADAPT banner  was confiscated, and will likely never be
scene  by  ADAPT  again.   Meanwhile,  others  have  chanted  as  I have
described.

An  afternoon protest is  planned.  I  do not know  what will happen, or
what  is planned, because I was  eating a burger, and was not present at
the  time to find out was  is going to happen.  Will keep readers posted
as more information develops.

.....

2:46pm  -- At  the main  entrance, people  are kind  of hanging  out and
protesting.  At one point a young man with a megaphone yelled out "Louis
Sullivan, your car is parked in a handicapped parking zone!  Your lights
are on!"

.....

3:01pm  -- I checked over on  Congress Parkway, which is kind of over on
the  other side  of the  building from  the main  entrance.  There was a
barricade  of cars that  was barricading  the whole street  and a row of
ADAPT people backed up against the cars.  I looked back to see what
looked like a similar barricade facing the other way down the street.

What  I was just told was that there was a game being played of building
up  a barricade in one place to try to pull protesters away from another
existing place. We kept trying to match their barricades with our
protesters.   It is a  good question of  who won and  who lost.  We were
able  match their barricading, but  on the other hand we under-protested
at  the main  entrance which  is were  we had  started with  most of the
people.  So Louis Sullivan made it out the front main entrance while not
very  many of us were  around.  Of course he  did not take a nice little
stroll,  he ran!.  He made, if  you will, a mad dash to a limousine with
covey  of cops making  a mad dash  with him.   So we do  know we had his
attention,  but at the same time  there is the game that was played.  As
to who won, he may have won the battle, but the fact of the matter is

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that  this game  was occurring  in the  first place.   So again, I guess
Louis  Sullivan won, ADAPT won, each of us won points, each of us lost a
point  or two.  In any case  we are regrouping. It is 4:38pm, and we are
preparing  to go  back to  the hotel,  and then  we will  see what to do
tomorrow.

.....

8:52pm.  This is Bill Scarborough reporting from the meeting of ADAPT in
Chicago.  As far as we are concerned, today was a great success.  As far
as  having the very  entrance where Louis  Sullivan escaped with maximum
people  on him was not important.  What was really important was that it
was a "mad dash!"  There was a car that came out at 45 mph and
came  to a screeching halt.   Louis Sullivan and 50 or so secret service
agents  made a sprint,  not a walk,  not a  jog, but a  mad dash for the
limousine.   And then  the limousine  peeled out,  knocked over a police
barricade,   and charged off  into the distance.   We have certainly got
our point through, no matter who won what cat and mouse game...

Now we are discussing what we will do...

During  the day Spitfire was arrested.  At about 4:45 during the day the
police  released her.  One report was that they had gotten tired of her.
But  besides that,  we have made  our scene.   Reports indicate that the
20,000  or so people at the commencement ceremonies at the University of
Illinois at Chicago were discussing us today.

So  now we proceed onward to tomorrow, with further actions on behalf of
attendant services for disabled people.  More reports as they come.

.....

Chicago,  May 11th, 1992.  Dr.  Louis Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of Health
and  Human Services,  delivered  a resounding  no  to the  protesters of
American  Disabled  for  Attendant  Programs  Today  (ADAPT)  apparently
shortly  after 1pm  CDT.  Our  request is  to meet  with Dr. Sullivan to
discuss  diverting twenty-five  percent of  the  money now  dedicated to
nursing homes to attendant services in the community.

ADAPT  protesters  marched on  the  regional health  and  human services
building  in downtown Chicago,  just around the  corner from the Chicago
Board  of  Trade  Building.   Protesters  blocked  all  exits  and forty
protesters  took  up  stations  inside  the  health  and  human services
building.

What I called the Health and human services building is shared by health
and human services and several businesses. Inside the building there was
an incident in which a local shop keeper shoved an ADAPT protester.

Police  put in barricades and in some cases barricades inside barricades
to  try to  provide  for entrance  and exit  from  the health  and human

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services  building.  Protesters then blocked passages by the barricades.
However  people came  and  went to  and  from their  business  at stores
opening  to the front, although they had to be let through barricades by
police or climb over the barricades.  At about 3:25pm I became among
those  who noticed that  there was  a back way  through which health and
human services employees were escorted out of the building.

Dr.  Sullivan's definite no came by way of the regional health and human
services  director, whose name is not  in my notes as of yet.  ADAPT did
succeed  in meeting  with the  regional director  who came  out into the
street  and talked with  ADAPT members.  The  message was forwarded from
ADAPT through the regional director to Louis Sullivan, and the
word no came back through the same channels.

There  were no arrests.  My editorial comment is that the Chicago police
conducted  themselves in a  manner of which  they can be most proud.  It
should  be noted that while  ADAPT does do civil disobedience, ADAPT has
no quarrel with the police.

As  I file this report,  it is about 6:20pm  CDT.  I expect I will be on
the job and on the scene tomorrow morning.

.....

Chicago,  May 11th, 9:43pm.  Here we have a follow-up report on  today's
action, with some new information and correction of other information.

The other report had recorded that about 40 protesters had gotten inside
the  health and human services  building.  Current data shows that about
20  protesters got inside.  Three made it to the directors office on the
23rd floor.  A few were sent up to the 20th floor by either the security
or the police.

Another report held that there were no arrests.  Current data holds that
10  people were  arrested, out  of  whom 9  were quickly  released.  One
refused  her name,  and therefore was  held longer.   It should be noted
that  it is the policy of  ADAPT is for ADAPT members always to identify
themselves, and to carry picture I.D.

During  the afternoon, not only  was the building shut down, but traffic
was  backed up  in the heart  of downtown  Chicago for  ten blocks on an
east/west  thoroughfare  and  also  for  ten  blocks  on  a  north/south
thoroughfare.

The  meeting with the regional director of Health and Human Services and
the regional director of the Health Care Finance Administration was done
in front of much news media.  After the meeting a number of media people
interviewed ADAPT members about their experiences with nursing homes.

A  report  was  passed  through  ADAPT  a  grapevine  to  which  we have
information access to the affect that Louis Sullivan is personally angry

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at  ADAPT.  One  ADAPT member  commented in  a meeting  tonight of ADAPT
members  that the idea of ADAPT  is not to meet with a bureaucrat; it is
to bring our petitions before the people of America and world.

.....

This  is Bill  Scarborough filing  a report  at about  1:55pm CDT,  in a
sandwich  shop across  the street  from where  the A.M.A.  is having its
convention.

We  began our  march at  about  10:43am, arrived  at the  building about
11:10am.  There has been chanting "Dispatch your protesters to a blocked
street."   At  one  point  all four  corners  around  the  building were
blocked.   At this time one  street is blocked.  There is much chanting.
It appears that there have been arrests already and it appears that the
police  are going  to  make more  arrests.   There are  police  in great
numbers  now.  At  one point someone  had to  be carried  away by EMS, I
don't  know what happened there.  At  this point I do not know what will
happen next.  As it is right now people are gathered at one street.  The
street is blocked off.   There is a great crowd and lots of chanting
and lots of police.  I'll keep you further posted as more comes up.

.....

I  file this report at about  3:20pm CDT.  Re: the one protester who was
taken away in an ambulance, I do not know the full story behind that.  I
witnessed  a young woman with cerebral palsy crawl under a barricade and
therefore  have to be arrested.  I don't know how many arrests have been
made.   From  what I  can  see all  entrances  and exits  to  the A.M.A.
building  are in some  way barricaded or  blocked.  At this time I don't
know  what  will  happen  next.  There  is  an  afternoon  waiting game.
Sometimes silence, sometimes chanting; each side waiting to see what the
other will do.  It is kind of a standoff.

I will keep you posted re: further development.

.....

8:31pm  12 May  1992. -  Today  ADAPT closed  down the  American Medical
Association Building for the afternoon of May 12th, 1992.  Four people
were  arrested and have been released.  One protester became ill in some
way  and was  taken apparently  to  a hospital  and is  apparently under
observation.   There was much  chanting. All exits  and entrances of the
American  Medical Association were  blocked.  When  the building let out
people  inside the  building had  to pass  by protesters chanting "A.M.A
Kills!, A.M.A Kills!"  and other such sayings of ADAPT protesters.

This demonstration seemed to go quite well.  Traffic had been blocked up
for  several miles.  At one point all four intersections surrounding the
American Medical Association were blocked.


 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 13

.....

This is Bill Scarborough filing a report at 6:22pm, on Wednesday May the
13th.  Today ADAPT protesters stopped traffic, not only on the
street,  but inside the State  of Illinois Building in downtown Chicago.
About  11am  this   morning  ADAPT  protesters   entered  the  building.
Apparently it was set up so that we could go ahead and enter.
The  Illinois State  building is kind  of a  circular type building with
office  in concentric circles up  16 floors and a  kind of a half a dome
apparently facing towards sunlight.  We quickly moved into
positions.   Protesters blocked escalators.  Escalators were turned off.
A few protesters were carried up the escalators by their attendants.  We
spent  the afternoon alternating between chanting and waiting.  Chanting
in the hollow half dome building created quite a sound.  The only
entrances and exits available were through the subway.  We certainly got
their attention.  We passed out fliers.  We taped signs to walls.  At 6
o'clock we had a news conference.

.....

This  is Bill Scarborough  with a  final report on  the ADAPT actions in
Chicago, this week of May 10th -- 13th.  It is now 9:34pm Wednesday the
16th.   We had some of our people go to the top floor, the 16th floor of
the Illinois office building.  The governor did not respond, but we
did have information that he knew we were there. This was covered rather
extensively  in the local television,  and presumably on the local radio
as  well.  We left  with the statement  that this was  just one day in a
long  battle to expose the oppression of people with disabilities by the
American  Medical  Association,  by the  Department of  Health and Human
Services, by Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan, and
by Illinois Governor Edger.  One of the newscaster from one of the local
TV  news stations commented that this was one of the best actions of any
kind  that he  had ever  seen.  As  I file  this report  we are having a
rather  genteel party,  with chips,  dips  and soda  pop, at  our hotel.
Tomorrow morning we get up early to return to our various places.

For more information on ADAPT and its activities contact:
Bob Kafka or Stephanie Thomas, 312-236-0123 Ext. 725.

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ADAPT's Mother's Day Flyer
Submitted by: Bill Scarborough


                   Mother's Day Flyer
          Circulated at ADAPT action in Chicago
                     May 10-13, 1992
      American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 14

ADAPT  12 Broadway,  Denver, Colorado 80203 (303) 733-9324

ADAPT of Texas 1339-N Lamar Square Drive Austin, TX 78704 (512)442-0252

ADAPT of Chicago (312) 226-5900 (voice) (312) 226-1687 (tty/tdd)

There  are other  chapters whose  data is  not readily  available to the
compositor of this text.

ADAPT  chapters produced flyers independently.  Chapters in one location
did  not see each others'  flyers until the Chicago action.  This is but
one of a number of flyers circulated over four days of action.

.....

                     Let's give Mom a
                       NURSING HOME
                     for Mother's Day

What  do we do when  Mom gets old?   when she can't walk  anymore?  When
she  can't get to  the bathroom without  help?  We put  her in a nursing
home!

                 Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

                   - - - - - - - - - -

Here's what some moms say about nursing homes:

      "I'd rather die than go into a nursing home."

           "I'll never go into a nursing home.
             They'll have to drag me there."
                       (They did.)

              "When they come to put me in a
                      nursing home,
           I hope I don't have any mind left."

                   - - - - - - - - - -

     This nation has 1.6 million people in nursing homes.
Most of them are somebody's Mom.  Because women outlive  men, the
population of our nursing homes is  disproportionately made up of women.

     Is a nursing home in your Mom's future?  Is a nursing
home what your Mom wants?  ADAPT is fighting so that moms  can live in
their own homes.


 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 15

                   - - - - - - - - - -

 ADAPT  is  the   nation's  leading  grassroots   movement  of  disabled
activists.


 WHAT  ADAPT WANTS: Re-direction  of 25 percent  of the current Medicaid
budget  to create a  national standard  attendant services program.  Far
more  than 25  percent of   today's nursing  home residents  can live in
their own  homes with appropriate, funded "attendant services."

 WHAT ARE "ATTENDANT SERVICES"?  Attendant services are in-home services
that  let a  disabled person live  at  home.   Things like assistance in
dressing,  bathing,  getting in and out of bed are "attendant services."
Attendants  work for  a disabled  person.  They  do physical   tasks the
disabled persons can't do themselves.

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                           From the Many, One

[ A series of articles by Tammy Zeller recounting her experiences     ]
[ with Multiple Personality Syndrome.  For an overview of the M_P_D   ]
[ echo see the article by Jack Zeller, M_P_D Moderator, in JADA0592.  ]

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Preface - About Tammy

By: Ginny Weathers
Re: Grasshopper

Hey,  I advise  you to  enroll under  the 30  Day Money  Back Guarantee.
(*grin)  No, actually, you couldn't find a wiser teacher than Tammy. She
is  very knowledgeable about the issues surrounding MPD and is very open
and  honest in sharing  her experiences. I  first met Tammy here in this
conference  shortly after  I was  diagnosed with  MPD last November. She
immediately took me under her wing. A mentor of sorts, I guess. Given my
history  of  abuse I  found  trusting  people very  difficult  but Tammy
quickly  proved that  she is one  of those  rare, kind and compassionate
people  who truly cares. She quickly gained our trust and we established
a relationship very similar to that of the wise elder and grasshopper on
the old Kung Fu television series. Hence, the nickname Grasshopper.

I  thought she'd get really  tired of all  the questions we would put to
her  and get  frustrated when  we  didn't always  listen closely  to her
answers.  But she showed much  patience and would repeat "lessons" until
we  could pass the test  with flying colors. She definitely made us earn
the gold stars which we now cherish.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 16

I  don't query  Tammy so  much  anymore. I  guess that's  called growth.
However,  a most cherished friendship  has evolved since those first few
months  and I couldn't  think of a  better friend to  have. (Gee, I sure
hope she hurries up and sends that money she promised she'd give me if I
said  all these  wonderful things  about  her.) (smile)  Seriously, what
Tammy  offers is  sincere.  She  has boundless  knowledge and  is always
willing  to share it.  And, I  guess, if I  had to  give you my feelings
about her in one sentence or less... I could only say... I respect her.

Nice  talking to you, Dusty.  I guess everything I just said about Tammy
holds fairly true for all the participants in this echo. We are all here
to  support each other and share the knowledge we have gained on our own
healing  journeys. There is much information to reap from this echo but,
most  often than  not, you have  to be  willing to  look beyond just the
written words.

.....

From the Many, One - Part One
By: Tammy Zeller

the beginning....

In the beginning....all was normal as normal pregnancies go...until the
father started to beat up the mother..and I and my twin were in
side.....the  abuse from  the  outside was  horrible....needless  to say
about  what was happening  in side.....at about  6 months the mother did
not  want us..so  she decided  to give  herself an  abortion with a coat
hanger....the twin layed so close to me....but I was so small I couldn't
save  her....the  hanger came  in  and  took her  away...and  I  was all
alone...but  the mother  thought  there was  only  one baby...so  to her
surprise at the end of the ninth month I was born....

had  to learn not  to cry at  the age of  two weeks....the abuse was far
more horrible than from the inside...but I learned fast....be the time I
was  3 was  a mother  to all  the other  siblings (3)  at this time....I
remember changing my sisters diaper..and she would not stop crying, so I
thought, if you want to cry I will give you something to cry about....at
that  time I  stuck a  diaper pin  right threw  her skin...the blood was
everywhere..

as being the mother I was also treated as a wife, sex was common for
me...even at a earlier age...when I was not performing my duties...I was
to  sleep in the  fire place...or  in the closet....  I found comfort in
dark  places...I was  not afraid  of the  dark...it was  a safe place to
hide...I felt invisible...to move through the night light a ghost...even
at  this young age I had learned to go out of body....I loved it...I did
it  every  chance  I  got...also had  many  friends  to  help me....also
telekenic abilities had presented themselves...I knew things many things
that  a child my  age should not  know....I was always prepared for what
was  coming....and would let the others take the body to handle what was
to come....

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 17

as my life elasated forward, so did the abuse....but at the same time so
did I...my abilities to survive just got stronger and stronger.....my
mind  was  like  a  sponge....like   water  that  absorbed  to  make  it
bigger....the  abuse made  me bigger  and stronger...it  was now able to
travel  through time....to look  back at where  I possibly started (aged
14)....come  to find  out in  the day  and  age it  is called  past life
experiences....to  me it was a way to leave and seek out why my life was
going  in the direction it was headed and what to do to stop it...it was
only  after I tried to the kill the step-father did I leave the house of
hell...after  14 years I  had...had enough....besides the seeker said it
was  time to move on...so  we did...(at this  time I am talking about, I
will be using we...because we were many at that time.)

the seeker took us to many places...seeking only information needed to
survive  this lifetime...but  the abuse  did not  stop...it wasn't until
Alan and Arlene came did it stop....

once  the abuse  stops from  outside  people...it was  turned inside...I
began  to abuse myself...and to manipulate others into abusing me...then
and only then did I feel normal...and not confused....but still did not
realize that I was not normal...abuse was used as a control devise at
this point...whether I was giving it or taking it...(age 16)....control
has always been my strong point...never lose it....never cry....you can
fix  what is  wrong...the mothers would  tell me.....but  I did not know
they  were telling  me this...I  thought  I was  in control  and telling
myself these things....

the system was set up in a very scientific manner...I will go into that
later..the  abuse here was  minimal....I feel  that I do  not need to go
into the whole thing....I do feel that I need to express what went on
inside...and what came of me and how I recovered and found who I really
am.....from ages birth to 16 there were over 100 alters made...the rest
came later.....


will continue....

tammy..


[ In the July issue, Tammy will discuss her teen and pre-teen years.  ]


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 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 18

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A Children's Bill of Rights
Silent Cry Coalition
By: Dusty James


Below is a Bill of Rights for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse.  Silent Cry
Coalition has entered into a federal law suit against the Alabama
Judicial System and State DHR..we are GOING to make some changes..I
wanted to share the Bill that the parents have put together with us, and
get some opinions on it from you guys that share the goal of Silent
Cry..that of helping to free the kids from harm.  It's kind of long, so
you may want to print it and read it when you have time to thoroughly
consider it.  Copy it and pass it out; send a letter and a copy of this
bill to your Representatives and Congressmen;  SCC will provide the
addresses and a form type letter for you.. if someone will help me "pack
it" and get it ready to upload..We need a letter campaign now, more than
ever. Congress is trying to help, and we need you too.


A BILL OF RIGHTS FOR CHILDREN

1.  TRAINED JUDGES AND MASTERS
    Each  child victim should be  entitled to have his or her case heard
by  a judge  trained and educated  about child  development and the full
effects  of  child sexual  abuse.   This includes  Family,  Juvenile and
Criminal Courts.

2.  TRAINED GUARDIAN AD LITEMS - BOTH LAY AND LAWYER
    Each child victim should be entitled to a law G.A.L. who would be
that child's guardian angel advocate and oversee the work of the system
including the lawyer G.A.L. representing the child.  The lawyer G.A.L.
should  be trained and educated, and limited in their work to being only
a child advocate, not representing the parents or other adult offenders.

3.  CHILD PROTECTION ISSUES SEPARATED FROM DIVORCE COURT
    Each  child  victim  should  be   entitled  to  have  legal  matters
pertaining  to their protection heard  by a different judge than the one
hearing  the divorce case.  The  child will not  be a pawn in a property
dispute.

4.  HOLDING ADULTS ACCOUNTABLE
    Each child victim should have the legal right to hold any adult
accountable for abusing them, participating in that abuse or for not
protecting them from further abuse.  This includes the legal right to
file lawsuits against doctors, lawyers, GALs, and any other child
protective service or government agency.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 19

5.  BURDEN OF PROOF REGARDING VISITATION SHIFTS TO ABUSER
    Once  abuse  has   been  demonstrated  to   the  degree  to  warrant
protection,  the abuser should  assume the burden  of proof necessary to
show  that visitation  would be  good for  the child,  as opposed to the
current  system in which the protecting parent must show that visitation
with the abuser would be bad for the child.

6.  THE RIGHT TO CONFRONT THEIR ABUSER BUT WITH PROTECTION
    Each child victim should have the right to testify with permission
from  their therapist,  so  they can  feel  empowered to  confront their
abuser with the truth of the assault.  However, the Courts, prosecutors,
and  GALs will be innovative  via the use  of TV and media technology to
protect the child from further abuse and threats within the courtroom.

7.  THE SAME EXPECTATION OF ADULT VICTIMS TO HAVE LAWBREAKER PUNISHED
    Child victims should have the same rights of adult victims to have
lawbreakers  punished, and not  to have their  sentences be less because
the victim was a child or a family member.

8.  COMPETENT EVALUATION AND THERAPY
    Child victims should be entitled to examination by doctors and
experts who have extensive experience in child development and child
sexual abuse issues.

9.  CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOR EACH CHILD
    Children should have the same legal and constitutional rights that
adults have.

THE  NATIONAL  PETITION  FOR   SEXUALLY  ABUSED  CHILDREN'S  RIGHTS  WAS
PRESENTED  TO  THE  U.S.  CONGRESS DURING  THE  MOTHER'S  DAY  RALLY FOR
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., ON MAY 10-11, 1992.

Please  remember, you may make the difference in whether a child remains
a victim or becomes a survivor..take the chance that your letter will be
the difference...

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Cancer Prevention Food
By: John Searcy


         REDUCE YOUR CHANCE OF GETTING BREAST CANCER BY 70%

              ALSO REDUCTION IN OTHER TYPES OF CANCER!

Did that get your attention?  It got mine.  Last summer I had a PSA test
for prostate cancer and thank God I didn't have it.  However my test
level was above average so I have to watch it.  This has made me more
aware of my diet, I have cut out coffee, very little tea, cut back on

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 20

meat and anything with fat.  I recently turned 50 and know that the
older you get, the closer you get to having cancer.  I don't want it and
I am going to fight it anyway I can.  My wife just recently had our
third  child  and  she  is  in   the  age  group  where  mammograms  are
recommended.  On top of that a friend of ours just got a bad report from
her mammogram so my wife is now very concerned.

I have just learned about a new product that is on the market.  It was
developed by a team of Doctors at the M. D. Anderson cancer hospital
here in Houston Texas.  I remember watching a local newscast that first
announced their findings.  I wish I had taped that program but I didn't
but I do have a later tape with information about it.  These Doctors
were going to market this product through health food stores under the
brand name Ondrox.  It was to be marketed as a dietary supplement, not a
cancer preventer.  The U. S. Food and Drug Administration will not allow
those claims to be made about any product.  Well after you look at all
the information you will realize that you don't have to be a rocket
scientist to come up with the conclusion that I did.  "I want some of
that."

I just learned that the Doctors plans were changed and the product will
be marketed through a company known as MXM/EFI.  I don't know what that
stands for but they are owned by Chase Pharmaceuticals and the people
that own Chase which is located in New Jersey.  The product is now
called  Health Shield  and a  three  month (90  day) supply  retails for
$16.25 plus tax and P&H.  So for a little under $6 a month you will be
able to take a supplement that may reduce your chance of getting cancer.

I have more information available for those of you who want more
information.  I have obtained a video tape of the special CBS This
Morning series that ran for a week.  The 5 day special was called Meals
That Heal and was presented by Bob Arnott, M. D.  Day three shows the
development of Ondrox at M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston.  A lot of
good information is given on the tapes which will help us all to protect
ourselves with what we eat.  I like the idea of taking one pill a day
instead of trying to eat 10 heads of cabbage, garlic or what ever.  I
have made an audio tape of the show, it runs about 23 minutes.  If you
would like a copy of the audio tape please send me $2 to cover my
postage and handling.  If you would like a copy of the video please send
$6 to cover my cost.  I will get these out in the mail ASAP.  If you
would like more information in general about this just get back in touch
with me.  You can call me at (713) 370-6379 Ext. 105.

                          JOHN SEARCY
                      11800 Grant Rd. #3101
                       Cypress, Tx., 77429

Another thing I like is that you will be able to call an 800 phone
number and order directly from the company.  The product is made by
Chase Pharmaceuticals and you order will be shipped by them.  You won't
have to go to a store or have someone trying to sell it to you.
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 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 21

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ADAnet File Distribution Reminder
By: Warren King


Time to remind everybody again about the AFD.  AFD is the acronym
representing the ADAnet Files Distribution System.  By spending the cost
of one phone call to 1:275/429, you can have a file automatically
distributed to hundreds of boards around the world.

I have been seeing several of you mentioning new files that you now have
"available for FREQ or download".  Please, let's get these files into
the AFD so that as many people as possible can benefit from them!  This
is an ADANet-wide project that so far only a couple of people have
contributed to.

[ By The Way - The AFD is also the primary distribution method of     ]
[ the JADA, i.e. this thing you are reading now. :-)  So if you like  ]
[ it, thank your local ADAnet sysop and Warren King, too!             ]

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Dwarfism Informational Workshop Report
By: Betty Jacobsen


The Dwarfism Informational Workshop that we hosted in Portland OR was
last weekend and I think that I've recovered enough to let everyone know
how it went.  The only "casualty" was my voice, I made it through the
workshop  that I was presenting, but by banquet time couldn't talk above
a whisper.

Advance registrations were very slow & early in the week I was beginning
to  wonder if we were  throwing a party  that very few people would come
to.   On Wednesday I got a call  from a mother that had a 7 week old son
with  a tentative diagnosis  of achondroplasia.  After  talking to her I
told  Rob that I  didn't care if  anyone else came,  if that family came
then  the weekend would be a success.  They came and it was wonderful to
watch  them go from being very tentative & not sure if they wanted to be
there,  to joining a  group for lunch  and actively participating in the
workshops and discussions.

We  had several extended family  members in attendance and one lady told
me that her father had always been very supportive, but never willing to
attend any functions.  After attending the morning workshops her mother
went home at lunch and talked the father into attending the banquet.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 22

The  workshop speakers did a  great job and everyone went home with lots
of  practical ideas and  information.  Several  speakers offered to come
back  again next year.  Most of the speakers had enough information that
we could have had 2 hour workshops.

At the banquet we had the Kids on the Block Puppeteers and they had
everyone,  young  & old,  entranced.   There was  some  discussion about
having a fundraiser to purchase the dwarf puppets & script for them.

Several people have asked me if we plan to do workshops again next year.
I haven't decided for sure, but we will probably do it again.  We ended
up with 74 people (kids & adults) attending (many of which said they
would  come again)  and I  hate to  drop it  when we  have some momentum
going.   My hope is that those who attended will make anyone that didn't
come wish they had.

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[ In the follow are two groups of three articles each.  The first set ]
[  of three details how a group called the Task Force on Public        ]
[  Awareness takes exception to some remarks made by Evan Kemp, Jr.,   ]
[  Chairman of the EEOC regarding the Muscular Dystrophy Association.  ]
[  The second set declares the grievances put forth by another group   ]
[  called AccessAbility Associates regarding the methodology of the    ]
[  Muscular Dystrophy Association.  Both sets of three are roughly     ]
[  group in the order of position statement, letter, and press         ]
[  release.  Regardless of how you feel about these organizations and  ]
[  their issues, I hope you find the opportunity to compare and        ]
[ contrast interesting.                                            -mj]

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Disability Task Force Opposes Kemp's Chairmanship
By: Task Force on Public Awareness
Contact:  Jim Brown (602) 529-5317


TUCSON, Ariz., April 20, 1992 -- The Task Force on Public Awareness, a
volunteer group of people with disabilities served by the Muscular
Dystrophy Association, has voted unanimously to oppose the reappointment
of Evan Kemp as Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The task force, consisting of 24 community leaders from across the
country who have disabilities imposed by neuromuscular diseases in MDA's
program, wrote to Sen. Paul Simon, D-Ill., chairman of the U.S. Senate
Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity, objecting to Kemp's
reappointment to the Chairmanship of the EEOC.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 23

The letter to Simon was submitted as testimony to be considered by the
subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources when
it reviews Kemp's performance as EEOC Chairman at an oversight hearing
on April 28.  The letter was signed by all 20 members of the voluntary
task force present at an April 13 meeting.

In television, radio and print media interviews Kemp has publicly
criticized MDA, accusing the organization and its national chairman,
Jerry Lewis, of using "pity" to appeal for funds to support its research
and patient service programs.  The task force letter calls Kemp's
remarks "unfair and inaccurate," "beyond the scope of Mr. Kemp's duties"
and "in direct conflict with the laudable goals of the EEOC."

"Mr. Kemp's attacks are having a divisive effect on the civil rights
movement of physically challenged individuals [and] a very harmful
effect on the fund-raising efforts of MDA," the letter to Sen. Simon
stated.

Kemp was appointed to the EEOC in 1987 and was named chairman in 1990 to
replace Clarence Thomas.  His leadership of the EEOC has been criticized
by groups representing the concerns of women, senior citizens, federal
employees and ethnic minorities.

In February, the task force wrote to President Bush expressing concern
over the impropriety of Kemp's public statements about MDA.  In response
to letters from Lewis, the White House has repeatedly distanced itself
from Kemp's remarks and expressed support of MDA and its Telethon.
However, Kemp has continued his attacks on MDA, despite these
reassurances from the White House.

Paradoxically, Kemp, who has a neuromuscular disease, appeared on the
Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon in 1982 and encouraged the public to
support the show because of its benefits to people with disabilities.

In other business at its meeting here last week, the task force, which
has expanded to 24 members to represent additional areas of the country,
set as a priority formation of similar local task forces in communities
served by MDA nationwide.  Development of the local groups is well under
way in many cities, including Chicago, Boston and Miami.

The members of the national task force are leaders in their communities
and achievers in fields such as education, medicine, communications,
law, marketing and computers.  Many have been involved for many years in
organizations and activities to improve conditions for people with
disabilities.

"These 24 people live with neuromuscular disease every day, so their
perspective gives them a very important voice in expressing what MDA
means to the tens of thousands of people we serve," said MDA National
Chairman Jerry Lewis.  "They're helping spread the word about how MDA's
research and patient service programs help make it possible for people

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 24

to live fulfilling lives and to attain outstanding achievements in their
education, careers and families."

                                 - 30 -

  *  If you don't agree with MDA, or even if you think Evan Kemp,
  *  Jr. has a right to have an opinion, please write Senator
  *  Simon, President Bush, and the EEOC.

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Letter from Task Force on Public Awareness
by: The Task Force on Public Awareness
Contact: Jim Brown (602) 529-5317


April 13, 1992

The Honorable Paul Simon
SD-462 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC  20510-1302

RE:  Criticism of Evan Kemp's misuse of his position as Chairman of the
     EEOC to denigrate the fund-raising activities of the Muscular
     Dystrophy Association.

Dear Senator Simon:

We, the undersigned members of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Task
Force on Public Awareness, are pleased to have this opportunity to place
this statement into the record.

In the past few months, Mr. Kemp has been very outspoken in his
criticism of how the Muscular Dystrophy Association ("MDA") appeals to
the natural caring of the American people to raise money to fund its
research and patient services programs which benefit tens of thousands
of individuals who have any one of 40 neuromuscular diseases.
Unfortunately, Mr. Kemp's remarks mischaracterize MDA's fund-raising
approach as an attempt to solicit and capitalize on "pity" for the
plight of individuals with neuromuscular diseases.

Mr. Kemp's criticisms of the MDA Telethon are unfair and inaccurate.  As
our society's perceptions and expectations of physically challenged
individuals have expanded, the portrayal of these individuals on the MDA
Telethon has changed as well.  The Telethon's goal is to raise money by
telling the truth about life with neuromuscular disease.  Increasingly,
as medicine and technology advance, one of the truths about living about
living with a neuromuscular disease is that we are leading independent,
productive, and happy lives.  The MDA Telethon features video profiles
of its clients celebrating their personnel achievements.  Through the

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 25

years, the MDA Telethon has made muscular dystrophy part of our nation's
vocabulary.  The Telethon has focused national attention on
neuromuscular diseases, marshaling energy and resources toward finding
cures and providing patient services which enable individuals with
neuromuscular diseases to be contributing members of society.  Mr. Kemp
appears to be misusing his position as Chairman of the EEOC to criticize
MDA, the Telethon and MDA National Chairman, Jerry Lewis.  We strongly
believe these unfortunate criticisms are beyond the scope Mr. Kemp's
duties.

Mr. Kemp's attacks are having a divisive effect on the civil rights
movement of physically challenged individuals.  In addition, these
criticisms are having a very harmful effect on the fund-raising efforts
of MDA.  Thus, it is very ironic that through the provision of
comprehensive patient services and durable medical equipment, MDA is, in
effect, one of the EEOC's strongest allies in its efforts to give people
with neuromuscular diseases access to the workplace.

The negative impact of Mr. Kemp's criticisms of MDA jeopardizes MDA's
financial ability to provide services to its clients.  These criticisms
are in direct conflict with the laudable goals of the EEOC.  Given our
nation's difficult economic times and burgeoning deficits, the role of
the EEOC instead should be to encourage private sector organizations
such as MDA.

Therefore, in light of Mr. Kemp's recent conduct, we oppose his possible
re-appointment as Chairman of the EEOC.

Very truly yours,

[Signed by 20 members of MDA's Disability Awareness Task Force]

  *  If you don't agree with MDA, or even if you think Evan Kemp,
  *  Jr. has a right to have an opinion, please write Senator
  *  Simon, President Bush, and the EEOC.

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MDA Brands as Distortions...
By: The Task Force on Public Awareness
Contact: Jim Brown (602) 529-5317

 MDA BRANDS AS DISTORTIONS EEOC CHAIRMAN KEMP'S CRITICISMS OF TELETHON

Officials  and  patients  of  the  Muscular  Dystrophy  Association have
labeled as "grossly inappropriate discharge of the responsibilities of
his office" the appearance of Evan Kemp, Jr., chairman of the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission, on a national television program
during which he contributed to unsubstantiated criticism of the MDA
Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 26


Appearing in a taped interview included as part of "A Closer Look," a
daytime talk show aired on NBC-TV today, Kemp said, "I still think that
the biggest barrier to hiring disabled people is the attitudinal
barriers.  And I  think that  the Jerry  Lewis Telethon exasperates that
problem and perpetuates that problem."

MDA Senior Vice President and Executive Director Robert Ross said, "I'm
deeply disturbed that a government official would use the prestige of
his office to voice a baseless criticism of one of the country's leading
voluntary health organizations.

"He lays the ills of society at the feet of Jerry Lewis and the MDA
Telethon when Mr. Kemp himself is the top federal official responsible
for enforcing fair hiring practices and ensuring equal opportunities for
people with disabilities. Jerry Lewis' job, and MDA's, is saving lives."

In a meeting earlier this month, MDA's Task Force on Public Awareness,
consisting of 10 people with disabilities imposed by neuromuscular
diseases included in MDA's program, wrote a letter to President Bush
criticizing Kemp's "damaging and biased statements about MDA, its
Telethon and its national chairman, Jerry Lewis, in national news media
and media serving the community of Americans with disabilities."

In what members characterized as unsubstantiated and "highly injurious,
inflammatory statements" by Kemp in earlier interviews, the task force
charged him with personally discouraging support of MDA's principal
fundraising vehicle, the Telethon. They asked Bush, who has expressed
support of MDA's "outstanding efforts in behalf of those who suffer from
muscular dystrophy" and his gratification for the "continued
breakthroughs in neuromuscular research," to use his influence to
protect their interests and those of all Americans with disabilities.

Paradoxically, Kemp, who has muscular dystrophy, appeared on the
Telethon as a pro-MDA spokesman in 1982. His father, the late Evan Kemp,
was a member of MDA's Board of Directors.

Kemp's latest anti-MDA statement was part of an "A Closer Look"
broadcast of a debate about what critics call the Telethon's "pity
approach" to raising funds for MDA's programs of research and patient
services.

Lewis has said that the critics of MDA "confuse compassion for pity. Our
goal is positive, and our message has always been positive."

Lewis also pointed out that, while MDA strongly supports the Americans
with Disabilities Act and other programs guaranteeing the rights of
people with disabilities, "Our primary mission in life, what motivated
us from the very beginning, is finding treatments and cures for
neuromuscular diseases, and we've not changed our focus."

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 27

The task force chairman, Barry Goldberg of Plano, Texas, said it was
ironic that Kemp's remarks were aired less than a week after MDA's
announcement of the discovery of a genetic defect responsible for
myotonic muscular dystrophy received widespread national publicity.
"This breakthrough by MDA-funded researchers is the latest in a string
of crucial findings about the causes of and potential treatments for
neuromuscular diseases that MDA's worldwide research program has made
possible," Goldberg said.

The task force reviewed materials depicting persons with disabilities
aired during the 1991 Telethon and endorsed their content. "These
segments are informative and they portray the lives of people with
neuromuscular disease with dignity," Goldberg said.

The task force serves as a sounding board for MDA on accessibility for
people with disabilities, represents the Association to the news media,
and educates the public about MDA's activities, Goldberg said. The task
force will expand its role by helping form similar groups in each of
MDA's 162 chapters across the country.

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Jerry's Orphans Seek Organizers
By: AccessAbility Associates
Contact: Cris Matthews/Mike Ervin (312) 477-3120


                    JERRY'S ORPHANS SEEK ORGANIZERS

Chicago -- Jerry's Orphans needs organizers to expand the battle to
remove Jerry Lewis as spokesperson for the Muscular Dystrophy
Association and telethon host.

According to Mike Ervin, co-founder of Jerry's Orphans and two-time
local MDA poster child, "The Labor Day Telethon protests were a huge
success. We want to build so that next year will bring a protest in at
least one city in every state. The MDA thinks we'll go away, but we are
telling them that they cannot exploit people with disabilities any
longer."

Jerry's Orphans plans protest activities throughout the year.
Individuals are needed to organize local protests, establish ties with
local media and act as information people for their area. Cris Matthews,
co-founder of Jerry's Orphans says, "You don't need experience. We need
people who believe that Lewis and the telethon hurt the community by
insisting that we are worthless subhuman beings. We can promise hard
work, but a lot of fun, too."

The group plans to increase pressure against MDA and its sponsors until
Lewis is removed from any connection with the MDA and the telethon is

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 28

either changed or canceled. So far, neither MDA or its sponsors has
responded to any contact from Jerry's Orphans. "They know what's
coming," says Matthews. "All they had to do was talk about it, but they
pretend they can't hear us. Now it's too late."

For more information contact Jerry's Orphans at P.O. Box 388246,
Chicago, IL 60638, or 312-477-3120.

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Letter from AccessAbility Associates
By: AccessAbility Associates
Contact: Cris Matthews/Mike Ervin (312) 477-3120


January 25, 1992

Dear Director:


AccessAbility Associates is a pride organization working on issues of
self-esteem in the community of disability. With the ADA bringing new
opportunities to our community we acknowledge the critical connection
between perception of personal worth and the acquisition of civil
rights.

We are completely voluntary and quite small. We've raised enough money
to publish one edition of our newsletter which many of you received. We
have also begun to address some of the bigger assassins of the
self-image of people with disabilities, and it is in this area we are
asking your assistance.

Under the banner of "Jerry's Orphans" we have taken on the issue of
telethons and their demeaning nature by confronting the grandparent of
them all -- The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon for the Muscular
Dystrophy Association. On Labor Day, Jerry's Orphans helped to organize
protests of local telethons in Los Angeles, Denver, Memphis, Baltimore,
Boston and Chicago. We received favorable press across the nation, the
most recent in the December 9, 1991 U.S. News and World Report in an
article entitled "Dispute".

The idea for the protests began when Mike Ervin and myself, both former
poster children in the pre-Lewis days, read with outrage the enclosed
article entitled, If I Had Muscular Dystrophy, which Lewis himself wrote
on  the  advent  of  the  1990  telethon.  It  is  rife  with  technical
inaccuracies  and paints an abhorrent picture of disability, ending with
descriptions  of  people  with  disabilities  as  "half  a  person"  and
"cripples".  This  illustrates his  disdain  for our  community  all too
clearly.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 29

We are demanding, at least for the moment, these five things:

 1) that Jerry Lewis be removed from any affiliation whatsoever with
    the telethon or MDA;

 2) that discussion be entered into about whether or not the telethon
    can actually be changed to accurately reflect life with a
    disability, or eliminated altogether;

 3) the appointment of at least three individuals with disabilities
    (two with MD and one with another type of disability) to the Board
    of Directors. Our group would have to be involved in the search,
    as well as approve the final choices;

 4) that the Association find another word to describe the individuals
    it serves, whom are currently referred to as "patients"; and

 5) restore and increase services and resources to adults with
    disabilities who may not benefit from or not want a cure.

This list can be increased at any time. You should know that we view
each of these five demands collectively as one, making none of it
negotiable. However, discussions cannot begin until Jerry Lewis is gone.

What we need most now are organizers to be point people in your area. We
really need you, one of your consumers or someone you know to help us
fight this battle in your community. There is a tremendous amount of
work to do to build to the next telethon, which includes organizing a
series of protests and a petition drive to acquire 10,000 signatures by
the telethon.

We have also decided to call a national boycott against 7-11 stores,
since the Southland Corporation, who owns 7-11, is a major corporate
sponsor of the telethon. Many 7-11's are also inaccessible, a fact which
makes their alleged caring smack of hypocrisy. We have written them
asking for their assistance in addressing MDA about our concerns and
expect a response to ward off a boycott which will begin March 3. For
your information, we have sent letters to all the sponsors twice, so
this isn't a new issue to them, nor will this boycott be a surprise. We
are enclosing a flier for you to copy in the event of the boycott. We
will  notify you  by mail  before the  twelfth if  we actually hear from
Southland.  Since MDA and all but one of the sponsors has ignored us, we
fully expect to go ahead with the boycott.

We have included a press release recruiting organizers and announcing
the boycott that you may use in your newsletters, if you like. If you
think you'd like more information or a petition to circulate in your
communities, please write or call and we will send whatever you need.

Help us rid the airwaves of this disability-basher. We have made a
tremendous impression so far, and the momentum must continue if we are

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 30

to accomplish our goal. Please write us at P.O. Box 388246, Chicago, IL
60638 or call at (312) 477-3120 even very late at night. We are looking
forward to your joining our exciting adventure.

    Sincerely:

    Cris Matthews                      Mike Ervin
    AccessAbility Associates
    Jerry's Orphans

P.S. The boycott flier is difficult to copy as is. We are looking for a
good black and white picture of Lewis. The one we have is color and he
photocopies black. Since we do not want to offend the African-American
community by remotely suggesting that Lewis could be part of their
community -- we will forward a flier closer to the date, if you request
some. If anyone has a picture, we promise to make a copy and return
yours.

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Jerry's Orphans Announce Boycott
By: AccessAbility Associates
Contact: Cris Matthews/Mike Ervin (312) 477-3120

        JERRY'S ORPHANS ANNOUNCE NATIONAL BOYCOTT OF 7-11 STORES

Chicago -- Jerry's Orphans, a Chicago-based group opposed to Jerry
Lewis' degrading portrayal of people with disabilities on the Muscular
Dystrophy Telethon announced a boycott of all 7-11 stores nationwide.

Cris Matthews, co-founder of the group, and herself a former MDA poster
child, believes the Southland Corporation, and the other corporate
sponsors, perpetuate the paternalism that faces Americans with
disabilities. "These corporations use us as a public relations tool.
They do not recognize the economic power that the dollars of 43 million
Americans with disabilities carries. They, instead, choose to make us
into charity cases who have no future without them. Maybe now they'll
understand that we won't be dehumanized any longer."

According to Mike Ervin, another former MDA poster child and co-founder
of the group, "When these sponsors support the telethon, they are saying
that they agree with Lewis' premise that we are pathetic 'things' with
nothing to offer society but a life of burdens and pain. If this is how
they see us, then we have no business spending money in their stores."

The group said that 7-11 stores are particularly offensive because they
give  money  to  the  telethon  while   so  many  of  their  stores  are
inaccessible to the people using wheelchairs. The boycott will begin
March third unless the group receives a letter of support from
Southland.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 31

"We want them to use their influence with MDA and the other sponsors to
help us persuade MDA that Jerry Lewis and the telethon are becoming
increasing liabilities," says Matthews. "They must change their approach
or suffer the consequences of their own attitudes."

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Excerpt from California Democratic Party Platform
Forwarded by: John Desantis


                      CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY
                             1992 PLATFORM

                             Adopted by the
                   Democratic State Central Committee

                           April 10-12, 1992
                            State Convention

                    Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles

                 *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *

Persons with Disabilities.

The right to live a productive life -- a life of dignity and decency
belongs to all individuals including those with disabilities.  The
California  Democratic Party  supports full  employment for  all persons
with disabilities who want to work, reasonable ac- commodations in their
jobs,  accessible buildings  and  facilities and  increased  funding for
supportive  services and programs  that assist persons with disabilities
to  live an independent  life. This can  only be achieved by integrating
the  disabled into  society on  their own  terms, not  terms dictated by
non-disabled people.

We assert our support for:

*    The strong enforcement of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Public
Law  94-142 that  protect the  rights  of the  disabled in  all publicly
funded  programs.   The  Democratic Party  urges  the  state  to provide
funding for the California Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services
Act,  which  mandates   services  and  protection   of  rights  for  the
developmentally disabled citizens of this state.

*    Enforcement of  the Americans  with Disabilities  Act of 1990 which
grants   civil  rights   protection  to   millions  of   Americans  with
disabilities.

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 32

*    Additional funding  for independent  living programs and supportive
services that enable families with disabled members to remain together.

*    The addition of  disability to the  categories of persons protected
under  all federal  and state  anti-discrimination statutes  in housing,
employment, public accommodations and polling places.

*    We  propose  that  all  newly  purchased  and  newly  built transit
equipment,  including  buses  and rail  systems,  be  accessible  to the
disabled.   Newly purchased  buses should  be  equipped with  lifts.  We
support phased modification of all other transit systems.

[Uploaded as a public service and not at government expense by
ROBERT T. GUSTAFSON, ESQ., Attorney at Law, 226 Church Avenue,
Chula Vista, CA, 91910  -- Tel: (619)422-0651, FAX: (619) 425-2410.]

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Candy is Dandy, but...
By: Joe Chamberlain

Reprinted from SPINAL NETWORK magazine.


Many  of us with  SCI would like  to recreate the  sensual feeling of an
actual  orgasm.  As a SCI male, I would like to research and compile the
techniques used by those who are successful.

The  literature and films  on sexuality and  the disabled have taught us
how  to be  comfortable with  our  sexual identity,  how to  satisfy our
partner,  and how to  have children.  It's  time to progress to the next
step -- learning how to satisfy ourselves.

For  many of  us,  satisfaction comes  from  sights, smells,  tastes and
caresses of foreplay.  We can share sex to this point with our  partner.
However,  a primary objective of  foreplay is to build sexual excitement
into the next stage of orgasm.

But  foreplay is the point where the sharing with our partner stops, and
we  begin to bring our lover to orgasm. We have learned well the various
oral,  digital and genital ways to stimulate our partner into fireworks.
Even  though we  can continue to  receive a  degree of satisfaction from
extended  foreplay and providing orgasm to our mate, we often leave each
sexual  encounter feeling that  our lack of  genital sensation has again
limited us to merely watching the fireworks display from the sidelines.

Some  SCI folks have  compensated.  One popular  way is denial -- simply
trying  to forget  what we are  missing.  In  contrast, a  man with a T1
injury  recently told me has  conditioned himself to orgasm when is left

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 33

earlobe is stroked.  A woman with a T10 injury told me that she
actually  has sporadic  sensation in  her  clitoris and  vaginal G-spot.
Personally,  I  have  been attempting  to  recreate  genital  orgasms by
combining  self-hypnotic  imagery  with   pelvic  thrusts.   My  routine
literature  reviews have proven  that very little  -- if anything -- has
been written on achieving orgasm with a disability.

Our  primary   objective  here   is  not   necessarily  to   induce  the
physiological  consequences of orgasm,  such as ejaculation, but instead
to re-create the sensual feeling and emotional release of orgasm.  As we
can imagine (and perhaps remember), this ability could be used for
masturbation  as well as  solidifying our  sexual sharing with partners.
As  someone recently related  to me,  "I am very  skilled at bringing my
lover  to multiple orgasms.  But, I  know of no way I can even partially
reach  my own orgasm. When we finish sex, I usually feel frustrated that
I have simply masturbated my lover, and there was very little in it
for me.  Sex has become boring."

In  answer to this common  concern, I am asking for successful people to
write  with their techniques  and others to describe their frustrations.
Also  welcome are comments  from sex therapists and other professionals.
All  responses will be held in complete confidence.  Let's work together
to bring orgasm back into our SCI lifestyle!

Research
P. O. 1427
Fort Collins, CO 80522



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           M I S C E L L A N E O U S    I N F O R M A T I O N

This month, this section features magazines for the physically
handicapped and 800 telephone numbers that are useful.

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Magazines for the Physically Handicapped
From: Kevin Robinson


MOBILITY LTD.
401 Linden Center Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80524

A POSITIVE APPROACH
1600 Malone St.
Municipal Airport

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 34

Millville, NJ 08332
Editor: Ann Miller

MOVIN' ON
Craig Hospital
3425 S. Clarkson St.
Englewood, CO 80110
Editor: Erich Kirshner

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800 Numbers
By: Joe Chamberlain

TOLL FREE DIRECTORY

Access Board (USATBCB)                           1-800-USA-ABLE
ADA Answer Line (EEOC)                           1-800-669-4000
America Paralysis Association                    1-800-225-0292
APA National Spinal Cord Injury Hotline          1-800-526-3456
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assoc.             1-800-782-4747
Calif. Spinal Cord Injury Network                1-800-548-2673
FES Information Center                           1-800-666-2353
Foundation for SCI Prevention                    1-800-342-0330
Miami Project to Cure Paralysis                  1-800-782-6387
Multiple Sclerosis Info Center                   1-800-624-8236
Muscular Dystrophy Assoc.                        1-800-223-6666
National Head Injury Foundation                  1-800-444-6443
National Organization on Disability              1-800-248-2253
Natl. Rehabilitation Info Center                 1-800-346-2742
Natl. Spinal Cord Injury Assoc.                  1-800-962-9629
Simon Foundation for Continence                  1-800-237-4666
Spina Bifida Assoc. Hotline                      1-800-621-3141
Spinal Network                                   1-800-338-5412
United Cerebral Palsy                            1-800-872-5827
Canadian Paraplegic Assoc.                       1-416-422-5644
International Polio Network                      1-314-361-0475
Natl. Coordinating Council on SCI                1-703-533-8518
Natl. Council on Disability                      1-202-267-3846
Paralyzed Veterans of America                    1-202-872-1300

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Future Reflections for Spring 1992
By: DAVID ANDREWS

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 35

Future Reflections for Spring, 1992 is now available for download  or
file request from NFB NET.  It can be had under the file name
FREF0492.ZIP.  Future Reflections is the quarterly publication of the
Parents of Blind Children division of the National Federation of the
blind.  It is primarily intended for parents and educators of blind
children  but is of  interest to anyone  concerned with the education of
our blind youth.

Future Reflections can be downloaded from NFB NET by calling (410)
752-5011, n,8,1 at 300, 1200, 2400 or 9600 baud.  You can also file
request it by using the magic file name KIDS from Fidonet 1:261/1125.

This quarter's  edition contains more news about the 1992 National
Convention in Charlotte and our plans for the kids,comments on
Braille and CCTV's, facts about the IEP, coming to grips with your kids
blindness, and much more.




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                     U P C O M I N G   E V E N T S

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* July 3-10  DWARF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA GAMES, Burlingame  CA

* July 3-10  LITTLE PEOPLE OF AMERICA NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Burlingame CA

* July 1992  OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION (OIF) NATIONAL
             CONFERENCE, San Antonio, Texas

* Aug 13-16  LITTLE PEOPLE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA - 1992 Conference on
Short Stature, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA. Information:  Muriel
Reid, 202 - 1718 Nelson Street, Vancouver  B.C. V6G 1M8
Guest Speakers:  Dr. Judith Hall & Dr. Len Sawisch

* Aug 28-30 ABILITIES EXPO '92 - Southwest - Infomart, Dallas TX
(203)374-1411, ext. 138

* Sept 11-13  LPA District 10  Short Stature Clinic, Denver Colorado,

* Sept 18-20  Billy Barty Foundation Golf Classic.  Indian Wells
(Palm Springs), California

* Oct 16-18 (tentative) LPA District 2 Fall Regional, Lake George
region of New York

* Oct 16-18  2nd Conference on Human Achondroplasia, Rome, Italy

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 36

* Oct 23-25  ABILITIES EXPO'92 - Midwest - Cervantes Conv. Center,
St. Louis  MO   (203)374-1411, ext. 138

* Dec 5  Educational Symposia "Insights Into Growth Disorders" - Seattle
WA - co-sponsored by the Human Growth Foundation  (800)451- 6434
& Serono Symposia (800)283-8088 (ask for Sandy Duso)

 - 1993

* Apr 16-18  LPA District 5 Spring Regional, Northcoast Chapter Hosting
(Ohio)


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           M E S S A G E S    W O R T H    R E P E A T I N G

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[  that are carried by ADAnet.  They have been chosen to be reprinted ]
[  here on based on the judged potential for wide spread interest,    ]
[  information of a timely nature, and self-contained brevity.        ]
[  Where possible we have included author's name, subject,            ]
[  date, echo name, and origin line.                                  ]

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Magazine for Diabetes Management
By: CROSBY!
Date: Sat  4-18-92,  0:00
Diabetes Echo


From a card-brochure I recently found in a grocery store:

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YOU ARE ABOUT to experience something that's really astonishing!

Very soon (if you take just a second to return the order card), you will
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It's  called DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT-and,  to be perfectly blunt, there
is no other magazine like it today, nor has there ever been before.

Plans, strategies, options!

DIABETES  SELF-MANAGEMENT is the only  magazine that exists for the sole
purpose   of  providing   you   with  a   totally   rational,  workable,
inspirational  strategy for self-management  of your diabetes-a strategy

 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 37

that  comes to  you in  a format  designed  so you  can put  every idea,
technique, and solution to work immediately!

It  comes to  you every  other month-brimming  with vital information, a
lively,  fast-reading  magazine  devoid  of  baffling medical/scientific
jargon.  What it does bring you, in clear concise English, is access to
the techniques and procedures you need to self-manage your diabetes so
you can feel healthier and more confident, right from your very first
issue!

A happier today...a brighter tomorrow!

DIABETES  SELF-MANAGEMENT brings  you  a precious  gift--the realization
that,  despite  diabetes, you  do  have  the opportunity  to  reach your
maximum  potential, to make your  hopes and dreams come true. Each issue
offers  exciting personal discoveries that lead to a life that's better;
freer; happier!

You'll  discover ideas and options you may not have realized existed for
you. Techniques for simple, painless blood glucose monitoring. Plans for
saving   big  money   on  medical   supplies.  Tactics   for  preventing
complications.

Health  insurance that costs less  than what you're paying now. New ways
to  make  injections easier;  safer.  Innovative plans  for  dieting and
exercising. Imaginative ideas for coping with anxiety and anger.

And  best of all,  this unprecedented magazine  is presented to you in a
way that increases your motivation and boosts your confidence!

Yes,  DIABETES  SELF-MANAGEMENT  is  the  one  magazine  that  takes you
seriously,  that  respects  your intelligence.  It's  the  magazine that
really can change your life, that really can make your future better and
brighter than you ever dreamed it could be. It's the magazine that helps
you achieve the most important goal of your life--personal control of
your diabetes."

The subscription price is listed as $12.95 a year--six issues. Write and
ask for a sample copy.

    Diabetes Self-Management
    P.O. Box 51125
    Boulder, CO 80321-1125

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 xJune 1992 - Journal of the American Disability Association - Page 38

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Nutrition Research
By: James Shoemaker
Sun 10 May 92 15:01
Grand_Rounds Echo

                ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
                        METABOLIC SCREENING LAB
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We are interested in contacting people who use vitamin supplements and
ask the following questions:  Do you feel you benefit in some specific
way from the supplement?  Have you ever "experimented" by taking extra
supplement or by not taking the supplement?  If so, we have an
experimental protocol which may interest you. It involves drinking a
fruit-flavored solution at bedtime, which contains natural food products
that "stress" vitamin-dependent pathways, sort of like a cardiac stress-
test stresses the heart.  A first-morning urine sample is collected and
we analyze this for over 130 chemicals by gas chromatography-mass
spectrometry. There is no cost to the you, but some people do get some
stomach  upset  from  the  test solution.   The  test  solution  will be
provided  to you by  courier. If you  are interested in participating in
this  type  of research, please feel free to contact us through this BBS
(The  IN-MED BBS @ 314-968-9140 -or- FIDO 1:100/485) or you can write to
us at:

    James Shoemaker MD PhD
    Metabolic Screening Lab
    402 S. Grand
    St. Louis, MO 63104

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Suicide Alternatives
By: Ed Madara
Date: Wed  4-22-92,  0:00
Public Psych Echo


Two booklets to help people prevent suicides (a friend's, or possibly
their own) are now available free from the National Depressive and Manic
Depressive Association, a self-help organization with local support
groups across the country.

The first booklet is "If You Suspect Someone You Care About is
Considering Suicide...". It covers possible warning signs (e.g.,
expressions  of  hopelessness,   despair,  and  "unendurable"  feelings;
winding  up one's  affairs). It  describes ways  of helping  that person

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(e.g.,  expressing  your  concern,  asking  direct  questions, listening
attentively,  fighting  your  friend's belief  that  their  condition is
hopeless, involving other people, etc.).

The second booklet, "Suicide and Depressive Illness," is for those
persons who suffer with chronic depression and recognize their risk for
suicidal thoughts and plans when they hit bottom. Instead of facing that
day unprepared (when one might start hatching a deadly plan), they
suggest now working on a personal action plan for life (before you ever
again slip down into a deep life-threatening depression).

A few suggestions include: preparing a list of phone numbers of trusted
friends  who  will provide  support;  educating them  to  your condition
before  it becomes a crisis; recognizing suicidal symptoms for what they
are;  and writing down your thoughts, values and hopes before a suicidal
episode strikes.

The last page of the brochure contains an example of one plan, where you
complete items like "If someone I cared about were considering suicide,
this is what I would say to him/her."

To order either or both booklets, and/or to find out about a local NDMDA
self-help group in your area, phone the NDMDA in Chicago  weekdays at
1-800-82-NDMDA (800-826-3632).

We're proud that Margaret, a member of our small staff, was an author of
the booklets.

Hope this indeed proves helpful to someone.

    - Ed at the Self-Help Clearinghouse

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PPS Research #2
By: Marianne Spengler
Date: Sun  4-26-92,  1:00
Post Polio Echo


The National Polio Research Coalition is looking for more volunteers
to join its lobbying efforts to get funding for PPS research.

Joining the group may be the most important thing that you can do to
stop the nightmare of polio from crippling you once again.

For more information, contact one of the following people:

   Jessica Scheer, Ph.D.,             Joan Headley, M.S.,
   Executive Vice President           Executive Director
   THE POLIO SOCIETY                  INTERNATIONAL POLIO NETWORK

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   4200 Wisconsin Avenue, NW          5100 Oakland Avenue
   Suite 106273                       Suite 206
   Washington, DC 20016               St. Louis, MO 63110
   (301-897-8180)                     (314-534-0475)


Please join: Your voice may be the one voice that is needed to win!!!

P.S.  Don't let the 'alphabet soup' after the two women's names put
      you off.  The degrees are meant to impress those outside the
      post-polio community, not you.

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PPS Research Funding
By: Marianne Spengler
Date: Sun  4-26-92,  1:00
Post Polio Echo



THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) is now considering funding
$5,000,000 in research projects on the cause/s and treatment of Post-
Polio Syndrome.  Whether or not the money is indeed allocated to re-
searchers depends, in large measure, on us, the post-polio community.

Dr. Lauro Halsted will testify before a House Subcommittee on the need
for research Thursday, April 30.  He will also address a Senate Sub-
committee later in May.  Specifically, he will ask Congress to direct
NIH to fund research on PPS.

Please contact one or more of the members on both subcommittees (see
below) to let them know that the polio community wants our tax dollars
to fund this research.

The political process works, but only if we let Congress know what we
expect of them.  Your voice counts, so voice your concern!

Specifically, ask that Congress DIRECT the National Institutes of
Health to fund research NOW on Post-Polio Syndrome.

The words 'direct' and 'now' are the key to getting the $5,000,000
allocated.

PLEASE call, write, or wire today.

.....

To write or wire a member of the House of Representatives, address
your message to:

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                    The Honorable (name of the representative)
                    United State House of Representatives
                    Washington, DC 20515

To a member of the Senate:

                    The Honorable (name of the senator)
                    United States Senate
                    Washington, DC 20510

.....

To call either a congressman or senator, contact the Capitol switch-
board (202-224-3121).   Ask to be connected to the office of that
individual.

....

Members of the U.S. HOUSE Subcommittee on Appropriations for Health
are:


William Natcher, Chair (D-KY); Neal Smith (D-IA); David Obey (D-WI);
Edward Roybal (D-CA); Louis Stokes (D-OH); Joseph Early (D-MA); Steny
Hoyer (D-MD); Robert J. Mrazck (D-NY); Carl Pursell, Ranking Minority
Member, (R-MI); John Porter (R-IL); Bill Young (R-FL); Vin Weber (R-
WI).

.....

Members of the U.S. SENATE Subcommittee on Appropriations for Health
are:

Tom Harkin, Chair (D-IA); Robert Byrd (D-WV); Ernest Hollings (D-SC);
Quintin Burdick (D-ND); Daniel Inoyue (D-HI); Dale Bumpers (D-AR);
Harry Reid (D-NV); Brock Adams (D-WA); Arlen Specter, Ranking Minority
Member, (R-PA); Mark Hatfield (R-OR); Ted Stevens (R-AK); Warren
Rudman (R-NH); Thad Cochran (R-MS); Phil Gramm (R-TX).

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SSA Disability Claims
By: Marianne Spengler
Date: Mon  4-27-92,  1:00
Post Polio Echo


FROM THE FILES OF THE ILLINOIS POLIO NETWORK:


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In July, 1987, the Social Security Administration's Office of Dis-
ability issued guidelines to the Administration's field offices to
help its personnel evaluate claims from individuals suffering with
Post-Polio Syndrome.

In May, 1988, the Office of Disability also sent a video tape on PPS
made by Dr. Neal Cashman, a recognized authority, for the purpose of
explicating its earlier guidelines.

If you are filing a claim for disability, you would be advised to re-
quest the guidelines "Evaluation of the Late Effects of Poliomyelitis,"
Program Operations Manual Systems (POMS), Part 04, Section DI 24580.010.
Show these guidelines to your doctor so that s/he may use the appro-
priate language in letters to support your claim.

You may also want to refer your field office worker to the Cashman
video tape in helping him/her evaluate your claim.


Joan Justice,
President



.....

I am sending a copy of the SSA guidelines to Warren King for the ADAnet
Library so that it is available for everyone.
- Marianne -

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PPS News
By: Marianne Spengler
Date: Mon  4-27-92,  1:00
Post Polio Echo

Summarized from "Post-Polio Syndrome," NIH (National Institutes of
Health) GUIDE, Vol. 21, #5, 7 Feb 1992, PA NUMBER: PA-92-40, (Program
Announcement):

1. The federal government now estimates that 66% of former polio
   patients are at risk for developing Post-Polio Syndrome, not 25% as
   originally believed.

2. New molecular biological techniques may show whether an active
   polio virus is present in individuals suffering from PPS.

3. The preponderance of research evidence to date still supports the
   argument that PPS is caused by the loss of nerve pathways which

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   sprouted after the initial polio attack.


I am sending a copy of the NIH excerpt to Warren King for the ADAnet
Library so that it is available to everyone.

Note: NIH's program announcements invites researchers to apply for
grants to study PPS.  Unfortunately, NIH's interest in getting ap-
plications is NO guarantee money will be allocated to these projects.
In other words, official 'concern' doesn't equal 'real bucks.'

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Handicapped Kids
From: Bill Freeman
Date: Tue  5-19-92,  0:00

 * Originally by George Tracy, 1:379/1107@fidonet
 * Originally to Bill Freeman, 1:3602/24
 * Originally dated 13 May 1992, 12:05

 * Forwarded from "Other FTN Networks (OTHERNETS)"
 * Originally by John or Debbie
 * Originally to All
 * Originally dated 7 May 1992, 15:16

I have a user who teaches handicapped kids in our local school system
and has asked me to help them get computer pen-pals.  We've already
gotten local civic minded organizations interested and the kids will be
getting a modem for their classroom computer.  Our initial plan was to
use the sister organizations of the local groups to pass mail between
schools directly.

Right now we have everything but the modem on hold until I can determine
if  there is already  a FidoNet echo,  or any other  net that carries an
echo  these kids could use.  She feels the kids would want to correspond
only with people who have the same afflictions they have so doesn't want
to use the one kids only echo I already get.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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  * * * * * * * <  B E A U T I F U L   T H O U G T S  > * * * * * * *

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By: Deean Strecker


Years  ago before my  grandmother died,  I used to  always tell her that
when her time came and she went to heaven, I wanted her to bring me back
some  blue violets (my  favorite flower) from  heaven. I always reminded
her  of it, and she in turn said she would. (If the good Lord permitted)
The  day before she died, she held me in her arms and said I'd get these
flowers one way or the other. This was her last promise to me.

I'll  never forget the next night, because it was then that my mom awoke
me to say that my grandmother had passed on. To be quite honest Wally, I
kind  of regretted ever making her promise me those flowers from heaven.
I  was scared  sh**less to  fall asleep  for fear  that her  ghost might
suddenly  appear in my room. My  mom said that I was being silly because
my  grandmother would never hurt  me in any  way. I knew that of course,
but  I wasn't so sure  I still wanted those  flowers if it meant I'd see
her ghost.

Two  weeks after her death,  I fell into a  deep sleep. It was from pure
exhaustion  because prior  to that  I feared  falling asleep,  and tried
staying  up all night. It  was then that  I had the most beautiful dream
ever dreamed.

I  dreamed that I was sitting  in my bedroom listening to my stereo.  My
brother  then knocked on the  door and said that Mother (my grandmother)
was  there to see me. I  didn't believe him, and said that he was wrong,
because  Mother had died  two weeks ago.  He kept insisting that she was
indeed  there, and was  waiting to see  me. So... I  left my bedroom and
went  into the living room to see if she was really there. And there she
was...  She was  sitting on our  sofa hugging  my mom  who was crying. I
heard her telling mom that she loved her, and that she was very happy in
heaven.   She was also saying  things that gave comfort to mom, in which
she  was able to stop crying.  I can remember walking a little closer to
get  a better look, when suddenly my grandmother turned to face me. I'll
never  forget that  look as  long as  I live.  Wally, her  eyes were the
greenest I've ever seen, and she looked so beautiful. I simply can't
describe  it here,  because  it's indescribable.   She  told me  to come
closer and said that she brought me something. I can remember seeing her
reach  behind her back  and pulling out  the most beautiful blue violets
I've  ever seen. She handed  them to me  and said they were flowers from
heaven,  and that I should  put them in  water right away. She also said
they  would never die as long as I kept them in water. And in my dream I
did this...

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This  dream was so real to me, that I awoke the next morning looking for
those  flowers. When I  went into my  moms room upset because I couldn't
find  them, poor  mom must  have thought  I was  nuts rambling  on about
flowers that Mother brought me. I then realized it was just a dream, but
one  I'll never  forget. I told  my mom  about it,  and she then started
crying.  She  had  been  praying for  a  certain  answer  ever  since my
grandmother  died.  When  I  told  her  what  mother  was  saying  while
comforting her, she told me that this was the answer she had prayed for.

She kept her promise to me even though it was just a dream. And she kept
it in a way that wouldn't scare me.


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EDUTEL                  Special Education Conference
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HOLISTIC                Holistic Thinking and Healing
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SURVIVOR                Conference for Survivors
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