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                             THE HANDICAP DIGEST

                                 Issue # 3117

                         Thursday, January 28, 1993

Today's Topics:


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                     NEW NCRVE DOCUMENTS (from KIDSNET)
                               Re: Depression
                                   Autism
                            Looking for Tri-cycle
                    deaf/hearing impaired/substance abuse
                             Getting back to you
                                  Welcome!
                                  Written!
                                   CANCER
                                   Ganglia


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Subject: NEW NCRVE DOCUMENTS (from KIDSNET)
From: sackman@plains.nodak.edu (Gleason Sackman)

[Forwarded by Patt Bromberger]
---------- Text of forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:13:00 EST
from: KIDSNET Mailing List <KIDSNET@vms.cis.pitt.edu>
To: KIDSNET Subscribers <KIDSNET@vms.cis.pitt.edu>
subject: NEW NCRVE DOCUMENTS


Effective Vocational Education for Students with Special Needs: A
Framework--L.A. Phelps, T.R. Wermuth
  This document reports on a preliminary framework that can be used to
  examine and, thereby improve programs for special needs vocational
  students by improving both policy and practice.  This framework
  provided the structure used by NCRVE in developing the National
  Recognition Program for Effective Vocational Education Programs
  Serving Students with Special Needs.
  MDS-112                 November 1992                   $2.00

Emerging Uses of Computers for Education:  An Overview of Tools and
Issues for Vocational Educators--M. Lewis
  Public  vocational education uses computers only in  a limited  way,
  due   in  part  to  limited  funding,  and  a  lack  of  appropriate
  expertise.   This  report  explores  feedback  from  a   sample   of
  vocational  educators,  which indicates  that  computers  could,  in
  fact,  be  very  helpful in vocational education,  if  the  barriers
  preventing their use were addressed.
  MDS-151                   AUGUST 1992                        $ 5.95

Collaboration for Instruction of LEP Students in Vocational Education--
E. Platt, J. Shrawder
  A rapidly growing number of youth and adults in the United States
  have limited English ability.  This has implications for both the
  American economy and the educational system.  This document includes
  interviews with vocational and language teachers.  When these
  teachers collorate, students benefit.  Vocational classrooms can be
  ideal settings for English language development, and improved
  language skills make it easier for students to learn vocational
  skills.
  MDS-157               November 1992                   $7.00

Collaborative Efforts Between Vocational and Academic Teachers:
Strategies that Facilitate and Hinder the Efforts--  B.J. Schmidt
  This  study  reports outcomes of structured interviews to  determine
  strategies  that facilitate, and hinder, high school vocational  and
  academic teachers in working together.
  MDS-164                   OCTOBER 1992                      $  2.00

Helping Teachers to Understand their Roles in Integrating Academic and
Vocational Education:  A Practitioner's Guide--C.R. Finch, B J.
Schmidt, and S L. Faulkner
  This   guide  is  designed  to  help  the  educational  practitioner
  understand  more  fully how teachers fulfill the roles  required  of
  them  in the integration process.  For each of the themes, a  number
  of  subthemes  address  specific ways to  help  teachers  understand
  their  roles in integrating academic and vocational education.   The
  guide  is  based on interviews conducted at 10 exemplary integration
  sites.
  MDS-276                  DECEMBER 1992                        $2.00

Using Professional Development to Facilitate Academic and Vocational
Education Integration:  A Practitioner's Guide--B.J. Schmidt, C.R.
Finch, and  S. L. Faulkner
  This  guide describes professional development approaches  that  can
  be  used  to  assist  administrators, teachers,  and  counselors  in
  integrating academic and vocational education.
  MDS-277                  DECEMBER 1992                        $2.00

Local Accountability in Vocational Education:  A Theoretical Model and
Its Limitations in Practice--B. Stecher and L. Hanser
  Local accountability systems, although often informal, have many  of
  the   same   elements  that  are  being  incorporated  into   formal
  regulations.   This  document analyzes local accountability  systems
  in vocational education.
  MDS-291                  NOVEMBER 1992                        $4.50

Helping Vocational and Academic Teachers Collaborate to Improve
Students' Reading and Writing Skills:  An Over-Time Inservice
Activity-- B. J. Schmidt, L. A. Beeken
  This  report  details procedures used to provide  a  Reading/Writing
  Institute   for   vocational  and  academic  teacher   teams.    The
  strategies  followed  can  serve as a model  for  staff  development
  personnel.
  MDS-299                  WORKING PAPER                      $  2.00

Students at Risk: Selected Resources for Vocational Preparation,
Volume 2--S. Kallembach, Z. Burac, M. Coyle-Williams, J. Benesh,
C. Bullock, L. Iliff
  This resource guide is intended for administrators, teachers, and
  others serving at-risk students.  Approximately twenty-five percent
  of all students that drop out of high school and are at risk of
  reaching adulthood unable to adequately meet the requirements of the
  workplace, the commitments of relationships in families and with
  friends, and the responsibilities of participation in a democratic
  society.  Vocational education can play an important role in
  increasing the opportunitites and successes of this at-risk
  population.  To avoid duplication, many entries appearing in the
  first volume were omitted from this book.  For a comprehensive
  listing, readers may wish to obtain the first volume (MDS-111)
  as well.
  MDS 434              September 1992                  $7.00

Two Worlds: Vocational and Academic Teachers in Comprehensive High
Schools--J.W. Little
  Vocational and academic teachers occupy two separate worlds in
  comprehensive high schools.  Vocational teachers have remained nearly
  invisible in the mainstream literature on high schools, despite the
  considerable attention devoted to the problem and prospects of a
  vocational curriculum.  This paper attends to the place that
  vocational teachers occupy in the professional community of high
  school.
  MDS-438                September 1992                 $3.25

Annotated Resource List:  School-Business Partnership--Compiled by
TASPP (Technical Assistance for Special Populations Program)
  This  guide contains selections of relevant publications,  programs,
  and organizations.
  MDS-477                   OCTOBER 1992                        $2.00

Annotated Resource List: Women and Girls in Vocational Education--
TASPP
  The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990
  contains a number of provisions designed to improve the academic and
  economic outcomes of women and girls in vocational education.  This
  annotated resource list is designed to support efforts to improve
  the access of women and girls to high quality vocational education.
  MDS-478                                            $2.00

Annotated Resource List: Supplemental and Support Services in
Vocational Education--TASPP
  This annotated resource listing is intended for professionals working
  to achieve the goals of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied
  Technology Act of 1990.  It contains descriptions of publications and
  organizations with a focus on effective practices for disadvantaged,
  disabled, limited-English proficient, and teen paernt populations.
  Resources for both secondary and postsecondary settings are included.
  MDS-480                                              $2.00

To order:

Send request and/or purchase order to:
   NCRVE Materials Distribution Service
   Western Illinois University
   Horrabin Hall 46
   Macomb, IL  61455

For telephone orders call:  800-637-7652
                            FAX 309-298-2222




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Subject: Re: Depression
From: jameew@CC.SNOW.EDU (Jamee)

[Forwarded from the HOLISTIC mailing list by Patt Bromberger]


Juanita:

On Thursday, January 28 from 8 am to 8 pm a toll-free hot line is
available through IHC for questions about depression.
1-800-876-1989.  Jamee.





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Subject: Autism
From: ah488@yfn.ysu.edu (Mark Panitz)
Organization: Youngstown State/Youngstown Free-Net


what is Autism?  as my girlfriend has been dianosed with having
autisum (and so have I do a diffent deegre,)
does it cause mood swings in some persons?  (that what my girlfriend
(that is what is happening with my SO right now shes having  mood
swings
thanks
--
 you may also send me email to my 'main' account as
 markp@pro-palmtree.socal.com
as all mail send to me here (as ah488) is automaticaly foward to this
address (markp@pro-palmtree.socal.com) thanks




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Subject: Looking for Tri-cycle
From: 34ID2QW@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU (Mike Wardin)
Organization: Central Michigan University

I'm looking for a Tri-cycle that has the two wheels in front and
which two people can sit side by side, with a steering unit in the
middle. I need manufacturer and estimated price. I've seen them in
the past and know that they are available. It sure would be nice to
go bike riding again and feel the breeze in my face.

Thanks in Advance for any information


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#     N8RTA (Technician Class)       R. Michael (Mike) Wardin          #
#     34ID2QW@CMUVM.BITNET           Kewadin Village Apt. #808         #
#     (517) 774-6932                 301 W. Broomfield Rd.             #
#                                    Mt. Pleasant, MI  48858-4542      #
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#     43 year old Blind Student at Central Michigan University         #
#     and Devoted Faithful Leader Dog, Johnny-Be-Good (Yellow Labrador)#
#     Majoring in Therapeutic Recreation, Minoring in Office           #
#     Information Stystems, Canoest and avid Spelunker.                #
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Subject: deaf/hearing impaired/substance abuse
From: ericadib@wam.umd.edu (Erica Dibietz)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

Hello,

I am translating the Addiction Severity ZIndex (ASI) for use for
deaf/hearing impaired clients. Am also finishing a paper for
publication on this.
Need: Stats on how many deaf/hearing impaired need substance abuse services;
      (I know, but need the numbers...the way of the world ;)
      Why should this be necessary, i.e. to translate etc. etc.
      Items that should be included, i.e. have included
       different education norms, ie. goes to 21 yo.; medical
       problems, degree and severity of hearing loss etc.
When completed I will send copy of the instrument to clinicians/
counselors to use...have authorization to do this for free..
Many thanks.
Erica M. Dibietz
e-mail: ericadib@wam.umd.edu








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Subject: Getting back to you
From: Elizabethann.Hawhee@f119.n283.z1.fidonet.org (Elizabethann Hawhee)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:283/119 - The Mouse College, Cedar Rapids IA


[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

Hi Linda. There is much less line noise today so I thought I would
answer more of the questions you put to me on the 5th. It also
might help folks understand my back injury if I tell how it
happened, so here it comes.

In August of 1989 I was working as an LPN at a privately owned long
term health care facility. We had a patient go into severe distress
and another person and myself used a two man transfer to move her
from her wheel chair to her bed. A little while after the emergency
was over and the adrenaline had wore off I noticed my lower left
back really hurt. My employer took me to my family doctor who
diagnosed pulled muscles and said not to work for a week.  After
the week was up I went back as the discomfort had not improved. He
kept me off work for another week. This was the first injury.

After the second week off this doctor released me for work without
look at me.  I went back to work using a cane. In October of '89
while taking a patient to the bathroom (picture three people in a
very small room) The patient started to fall, and I had to catch
her while I was in a very bad position and my lower back went
'crunch' with pain radiating from the back down my left side.  I
have never recovered.

I know many people will not understand why I did not go for
workmans comp, but I have always felt that it was not the faciliies
fault it was the doctors. And he is no longer my doctor.

The doctor that made the most sence was a neurosurgeon I saw two
and a half years ago. He said that if there was a disk problem
which it sounded like he was willing to operate on me (I am a large
woman) but because the surgeries on my hands and arms to correct
repetative motion syndrome failed after two years it was very
possible a back surgery would also fail. After much thought I
decided it was not worth it to try.

My neurologist is tired of me. Two of the medications he put me on
diminished the pain considerably but also diminished my personality
and thought processes considerably. Can you say zombie? Grin. Than
he decided that on the basis of the nerve conduction studies of my
hands that it is all in my head! Even though I continue to loose
strength and feeling in both hands, not to mention dexterity loss
anf the pain that now is not just in my hands but from the neck
down- which by the way nerve conduction studies, six of them now,
have never checked from the spinal cord down just upper arm on
down.

Enough moaning and groaning. I am very lucky that my husband is so
understanding but you see, he is also a person who does not fit
into the 'normal society' as he was born legally blind. We were
married two years ago, my second his first. For so much of his life
he has been told what he can or cannot do by others on the basis of
his lack of eyesight and I treat him as normally as I can. I just
had to learn to be more verbal as he cannot read body language. But
bless the man, he always seems to know when I hurt real bad and is
very considerate. I don't think he will be one to get out and
leave.

Hope this post has been understandable as this has been what I call
a week from hell, lots of pain with no letup unless I take a pain
pill which I did so I could sit at my computer for a time.

By the way, sure am glad you got a wheel chair. I was just upgraded
(?) from a cane to a short crutch two weeks ago as the more I walk
the more my back hurts the more I lean on my cane and put more
pressure on my arm which makes it hurt worse. Someday when we get
rich I plan to get one of those go carts so I cango shopping in a
mall or a big store again. It is fun to dream anyway.

Take care,
Elizabeth

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Subject: Welcome!
From: Linda.Cummings@f34.n375.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Cummings)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:375/34 - Batteries Included, Montgomery AL


[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

 > Thanks for the kind welcome. It is great to be able to talk to
 > people who understand the problems that go along with chronic pain.

Ain't it great?

I am also sensitive to metal (except 14k gold).  My husband says
it's a plot!  [grin]

Well, I went round and about with many doctors, too.  Fortunately
(or unfortunately), the first two times, I had myelogram results
that showed a ruptured L4/L5 disk that was causing my pains down my
legs (especially the left leg).  But, when I was positive it had
re-ruptured, and nothing showed up, I pursued it until the right
x-ray (myelogram, MRI, etc.) was taken and it did show up.

Liz, you just have to keep looking for someone who can help you.
That's about all I can say.  You know your body more than anyone
else.  You know there is something wrong.

 > I hope this message is not too garbled. I am getting so much
 > garbage over the line tonight this reply has taken over an hour so far.

That happens sometimes.  That's why we went from a user with an
off-line reader to a node in nothing flat!  ;-)

 > I will get back to you on your other questions some other time
 > when the lines are better.

Okay.

 > It is nice to have a new friend, thanks.

You're welcome and I appreciate your friendship, too!

Linda

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Subject: Written!
From: Linda.Cummings@f34.n375.z1.fidonet.org (Linda Cummings)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:375/34 - Batteries Included, Montgomery AL


[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

 > If he doesn't like it, too bad! As he
 > put it to me so eloquently. "Do you know what a disappointment to
 > this family you are? We don't have to support you! If we didn't
 > support you, we'd have that much more money to spend on
 > ourselves."

Michelle, I hate to be the one to say it, but your dad is abusing
you emotionally.  Get on your own as quickly as you can.  It may
take years for you to feel anything towards this man except
resentment.  But, I've seen this happen before, and the best thing
to do is what you're doing. You don't have to take this sort of
abuse.

 > So I'll move out, they'll be able to send my two younger siblings
 > to university and they'll be rid of the disgrace to the family,
 > all in one shot. Happiness all around.

And you should take that attitude and keep it, Michelle.  We're
here to support you.  If you're able to get on the Silent Cry echo
in Adanet, then, please do so.  There's help waiting for you
there.

Linda

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Subject: CANCER
From: Arthur.Saus@p160.f72.n376.z1.fidonet.org (Arthur Saus)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:376/72.160 - Mail Room, Columbia SC


[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

Hello Mike!

05 Jan 93, Mike Silver writes to All:

 MS> I dont know a great deal about cancer , except that it just eats away
 MS> at the body.  Does it inflict a lot of chronic type pain?

"Cancer" is actually many different diseases (hundreds of them),
some of which are extremely painful, while others have little to no
pain associated with the disease.  There are even many different
breast cancers, since that seems to be the general type of cancer
problem you were asking about.

Unfortunately, there is no simple, direct answer to your question
becaue it depends not only on exactly what type of cancer it is,
but also on exactly where it is in the body, and how its presence
affects surrounding tissues.

Arthur

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Subject: Ganglia
From: Arthur.Saus@p160.f72.n376.z1.fidonet.org (Arthur Saus)
Organization: FidoNet node 1:376/72.160 - Mail Room, Columbia SC


[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

Hello Shoshona!

06 Jan 93, Shoshona Bieman writes to All:

 SB> Does anyone know about or have experience with ganglia?

My experience with Ganglion Cysts is providing the anesthesia for
surgical removal.  The ones in the palm or on the inside of the
wrist are generally a more difficult operation than those on the
back of the hand or wrist.

Arthur

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