Legislative Update
By Scott Burlingame, Assistant Program Director As I write this, I am currently stranded in the airport in Washington, DC, attempting to return to Fargo from the National Council for Independent Living...
View ArticleAction Alert! Support People with Disabilities in Health Care Reform
The US Senate, House and the President are currently in what is being called in the final push for health care reform. It is more important than ever that people with disabilities contact their...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform Explained
Health Reform Hits Main Street As the new Affordable Care Act (Health care reform) is enacted into law, it is important to become informed on what this law will mean for you and your health. This video...
View ArticlePosition Statement: Health Care
The second installment of our position statements will reveal our position on health care. Summary/History of the Issue Access to quality and affordable health care is utterly important and necessary...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong Wednesday: Home and Community Based Services versus Living in a...
10.5 percent of North Dakota Medicaid and state funded Long-Term Services and Support spending is going to home and community based services for older adults and adults with physical disabilities....
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Freedom Friday: The Five Essential Elements of Wellbeing
For more than 50 years, Gallup scientists have been exploring the demand of a life well-lived. More recently, in partnership with leading economists, psychologists, and other acclaimed scientists,...
View ArticleFreedom Friday: Advocacy
“Respectfully challenging the status quo, combined with relentlessly reiterating new ideas is the hallmark of the vibrant tribe.” (Seth Godin) Advocacy is speaking up for what you want or need. People...
View ArticleFreedom Friday: Dealing with Conflict Avoiders (Advocacy Series Part 4)
Advocacy is speaking up for what you want or need. It means asking for help, especially when you are not getting what you want or need. Most of us have experienced obstacles when we’re engaged in...
View ArticleFreedom Friday: Dealing with “Wet Blankets” (Advocacy Series Part 5)
Advocacy is speaking up for what you want or need. It means asking for help, especially when you are not getting what you want or need. Most of us have experienced obstacles when we’re engaged in...
View ArticleFreedom Friday: Dealing with “Complainers” (last in the advocacy series)
Advocacy is speaking up for what you want or need. It means asking for help, especially when you are not getting what you want or need. Most of us have experienced obstacles when we’re engaged in...
View ArticleMotivational Monday: Beginner’s Mind
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. The beginner’s mind is open and ready for new information; it is open and ready for anything. It is a mind of...
View ArticleFreedom Friday: Sign Language Interpreters
Sign language interpreting helps deaf and hearing-impaired people communicate, and in the United States, it is often legally required. Title II and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act...
View ArticleFreedom Friday: Effective Communication Tools for People with Hearing...
Last week’s Freedom Friday addressed accessible communications when dealing with people who are Deaf, Deaf-blind, or hard of hearing. Today’s Freedom Friday addresses the different auxiliary aids and...
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What’s Wrong Wednesday: Service Counter Requirements
ADA states that service counter surface height shall be 38 inches maximum above the finish floor or ground. Obviously this service counter is not in compliance with the ADA.
View ArticleMotivational Monday: The Story of the Pencil
A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point he asked: ‘Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is it a story about me?’ His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said...
View ArticleFreedom Friday: Mindfulness and Meditation
A recent study by Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert (published in the journal NeuroImage) sampled over 2,000 adults during their day-to-day activities and found that 47 percent of the time,...
View ArticleFreedom Friday: Americans with Disabilities Act: Success or Failure?
July 26 is the 23rd anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA.) Most provisions came into effect two years later. As I reflect on this period of time and the promises that...
View ArticleMotivational Monday: This single moment
“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs...
View ArticleMotivational Monday: Attached beliefs
Like blinders on a horse, our attached beliefs limit our vision, and this in turn limits our perceived direction in life. The stronger our level of attachment, the less we can see. (Don Miguel Ruiz,...
View ArticleMotivational Monday: Self-talk
“I could do that better if only…” You could do better if only you would let yourself do it! Affirmations will help you allow yourself to do it. An affirmation is a positive statement of (positive)...
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