The Disability Resource Center at Community College of Southern Nevada will mark Disability Awareness Week, March 26 through 30. Henry Holden, actor and disability awareness advocate, will speak on March 26 and 27 on CCSN's three main campuses.
Events are free to the public.
Holden contracted polio at the age of four, but wearing braces and crutches has never stopped him from pursuing his dream of acting. His athletic accomplishments include downhill skiing, certified scuba diving, bowling in league competition, flying gliders and single engine airplanes and riding at the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden. He finished the Los Angeles Marathon for the North American Wheelchair Association and planes to finish the NAWA New York Marathon. Films depicting disabilities, lectures and discussions have raised the level of awareness at CCSN and led to environmental improvements for the disabled on the college's campuses and sites. Physical access for disabled students to classrooms and facilities is already in place, as well as adaptive learning technology.