ADA Appreciation

by Chloe - 6 June 2011

While attending the magnetoencephalography symposium some weeks ago, I had drawn the attention of the building coordinator to some inadequacies of the wheelchair seating arrangements in the auditorium. He said he was going to call a staff meeting to address the issues and then get back to me. We have indeed had several long discussions since then. The consequences of my dropping a pebble in the pond are more far reaching than I could have imagined.

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Magnetoencephalography Symposium

by Chloe - 11 May 2011

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a brain imaging technique which Claire was subjected to when she went to San Diego as part of a BIID study several years ago. If you REALLY want to impress people when you disclose about BIID, you can say that magnetoencephalography experiments support the hypothesis that BIID arises from congenital dysfunction of the right superior parietal lobule.

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Second Class Citizens No More

by Chloe - 8 March 2011

I often have a sense of being spoiled, living in Utah. People seem very disability friendly. Accessibility issues are few and far between. However, on Valentine’s day I had an experience of unequivocally being treated as a second class citizen on account of my wheelchair.

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