TAAP Video

Learning Disabilities

This is a great video to show people when they ask about learning disabilities or as in the video they call them ld. Another great resource for families and friends to check out is The Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta Website.

Disabilities

Which one of us is not disabled or ‘challenged’ in some aspect of our physical or mental capacity? The spectrum of human ability is wide, and it is on their capabilities that people with a disability would like society to focus.


http://www.answers.com/disabilities


AACL is the Alberta Association for Community Living. There Mission is
To foster family leadership and advocacy in the pursuit of fully inclusive community lives for children and adults with developmental disabilities.

http://www.aacl.org/


LACL is Lethbridge Association fore Community Living. There mission is to advocate for and support individuals with developmental disabilities and their families/guardians so they can live:

• as valued citizens
• free of discrimination
• enjoying all rights, responsibilities and benefits of citizenship

http://www.lacl.ca/

What is self-advocacy?

Self-advocacy is advocacy that you undertake directly to achieve a specific goal or outcome for yourself.
self-advocacy is not just fore some one that has a disabilitie. It is fore every one.

how we look at life?

so many things in life are negative why is that? why cant we look at things that are bade in a new way find the positive lining in all things. fore example one day the bus drove right past me i got all mad and was swearing at the bus driver. i need to tell you that i could not find my bus pass that day. so when i whent home i found my bus pass. so the good thing that whas that i saved the mouney that i was going to use.

Motivational Quotes

Where you end up isn't the most important thing. It's the road you take to get there. The road you take is what you'll look back on and call your life. - Tim Wiley

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

Helen Keller1880-1968, Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer