I eventually returned to college, under protest from my therapists, to earn a Bachelor s degree from Cornell and a Master s degree from Tufts University. After years of struggling and searching for ways to make my goals happen, it occurred to me that other people with disabilities also had many of the same circumstances I did. One day, in a workshop on positive thinking and personal development, the idea for Higher Ground came to me. People, disabled or not, can accomplish more than they think they can. Nobody has ever been able to measure or predict human potential.
Information is power and it helps to equalize people.
Educating ourselves helps us to create opportunities for work, for learning, for a better social life. The books, tapes, games, and other items in this catalogue can help you achieve a variety of goals from how to search for a job, learn new skills, or improve your physical condition. We can create a better life for ourselves. We can create more than we think we can. We can redefine perceptions people have about disability.