uodsp: FW: Please you know any information about a summer camp!

Heidi von Ravensberg hvr at uoregon.edu
Mon Feb 22 14:18:14 PST 2021


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From: agapasm at agapasm.com.br <agapasm at agapasm.com.br>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 11:39 AM
Subject: Please you know any information about a summer camp!




Hello my brothers and sisters!

I got the news about a Netflix documentary about Camp Jened, a summer camp which was dedicated to people with disabilities in 1951 and I got really interested in knowing if this kind of structure still exists.

Please you know any information about a summer camp which which attends people with disability nowadays, please send me more information.

Best regards to you all.

Alex Garcia - Brazil



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The Protactile movement!

Hope you doing ok. CV19 is a real difficult time. Hang in there... we'll get through this.

The Protactile movement!

Hello everyone!

More than ever, people are searching for new ways to connect and build. The Protactile movement provides a vital paradigm shift away from individualism and distantism and toward world-making and touch. "Introduction to Protactile Theory" is an opportunity to join the conversations DeafBlind people have been having about meaningful connections, what feels beautiful, and a language in a new modality.

The four-week group email seminar welcomes community members, educators, interpreters, administrators, co-navigators, parents, and anyone interested in learning more about the Protactile movement. For interpreters, it is a RID CMP and ACET Activity, and 2.0 CEUs in the categories of Professional Studies and Power, Privilege, and Oppression will be offered by the DeafBlind Interpreting National Training and Resource Center, an approved CMP and ACET sponsor.

Here are some things participants in recent seminars said about their experience:

 "I learned so much about why and how Protactile came to be, how it developed naturally, organically, when DeafBlind folks took the reins. I learned how important contact is, a no-brainer, really, yet the sharing of your stories really knocked that one out of park for me. You have a gift for inciting thoughtful conversation among your students. I don't think I've ever participated in an online workshop with so much rich and extensive conversations!"

Interpreter

"I cannot express all that taking part in this seminar has meant to me. I have bounced between my own inner experiences of learning, watching myself confront my own ignorance on various issues, and the big picture of how this is world-changing, at a thrilling moment in time, taking off at an unprecedented speed... The readings you selected for us were an excellent fit for both the beginners and experienced ones, and it felt like we all could grow together."

Administrator

"I think I probably learned more in this 'online' workshop than I have in any others. I thought the number of emails would be overwhelming but I found it to be completely manageable. I would definitely recommend this class to my colleagues."

Interpreter

"I am a person who does not enjoy online courses. No one could have convinced me that this course would be any different until I took it. It truly was an informative, provocative, enlightening, ENJOYABLE--I could go on with so many more adjectives but I will stop--experience. I recommend this course for everyone."

DBII Alumna

"I have studied PT at workshops, read some of John's published texts, and attended Seabeck as a volunteer, but I have never truly grasped DB culture until now. I would not venture to say I fully understood everything I read, but my approach to anyone in the DeafBlind community will be vastly different than what it was before taking this course."

Interpreter

"This course surpassed my expectations and left me with many things to explore. I'll be revisiting and sitting with the materials from this course for weeks to come. I loved the wide net of topics the group tackled throughout the last few weeks!"

Law Student

Title: Introduction to Protactile Theory

Instructor: John Lee Clark

Dates: March 14 April 9, 2021

CEUs: 2.0 (20 hours, 5 per week, no partial CEUs are awarded)

 Registration fee: $250 (PayPal or check)

 Registration deadline: March 10, 2021

Course description:

This distance learning opportunity focuses on the social and intellectual contexts in which the Protactile movement emerged. Key concepts include distantism, vidism, virtual and corporeal spaces, co-presence, co-navigation, and autonomy. We will discuss the ramifications of these concepts, Protactile practices, and protactile language. This four-week, discussion-intensive course is designed to deepen the knowledge of participants at any stage of their Protactile journeys, from those who haven't even started to the most fluent Protactile speakers.

The course may include one to two guest presenters.

IMPORTANT: The course is conducted via a secure email listserv. THERE ARE NO SET TIMES TO MEET OR SHOW UP. The discussions are ongoing, and you can read and contribute at your own pace within each weekly block. You are responsible for obtaining a copy of one book; all other reading materials are provided.

 Participation expectations: Read materials, post several messages per week, and write a short (300-400 words) essay. We will use a flexible literacy approach; Deaf English and other pidgin writing styles are fine.

Instructor bio:

John Lee Clark is the author of the essay collection "Where I Stand" (Handtype Press, 2014). A nationally recognized Protactile educator, he is a core team member with the DeafBlind Interpreting National Training and Resource Center at Western Oregon University and a research assistant for Protactile research at Saint Louis University. His essays and poems have appeared in many publications, including American Poetry Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Nation, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Poetry, which awarded him the 2019 Frederick Bock Prize and published his essay "Tactile Artist," which won the 2020 National Magazine Award in Essays and Criticism. He makes his home in downtown St. Paul with his partner, the ASL Deaf artist Adrean Clark, three kids, and two cats.

To apply, please contact me at jlc at johnleeclark.com<mailto:jlc at johnleeclark.com> for further information.

Join us in building a new world!



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Covid-19 and me!

By: Alex Garcia – Deafblind Person, a Person with Hydrocephalus and Rare Disease - Brazil.



It's impossible to deny that the pandemic was and has been something very surprising and, of course, devastating for Human being and for me the impacts were not so different.

I am Alex Garcia and I have lived in the extreme South of Brazil. I am a deafblind person who also has hydrocephalus and rare disease - Osteogenesis Imperfeita, "crystal bones".

In my case, I had to face something more than the pandemic.

On December, 13th, 2019, before all issues related to the pandemic start, I fell over in my house and had fractures in my hip bones. I was in hospital for ten days, having to use adult-use diapers and an urinary catheter.

After these days, I went back home but I still needed intense care so my family transformed my house in a mini hospital utility. I was in bed at home for three months. In March, 2020 - with the pandemic starting here in Brazil - I managed to leave bed and star using a wheelchair and start physiotherapy.

In June, I could start walking again with the support of an walker aid. Then, I started using a walking cane and, finally, in November, I started walking again only with the support of a long walking cane.

I believe you can understand me: besides the pandemic, I had to deal with strong pain and a rehabilitation process. In my case, the trials were superior.

But I managed to overcome this and with my family support, I won this battle!

From December 2019 to December 2020 I was isolated at home for many months. I only had (and still have) contact with my mother, father, brother and physiotherapist.

From December 2019 to February 2020 I suffered from strong pains and I couldn't even sit in bed so I was off the internet and I couldn't use my computer.

In March 2020, a little before getting to leave bed, I managed to sit and then I started using my computer again. It was a very important moment nfor me because at that moment I could have contact with more people again, on the internet.

Well, I overcame fractures and kept doing my activities online. I am an educator - you can check my profile in the link at the end of this text.

The pandemic reached Brazil strongly and it is getting worse each day. We have a perspective of having vaccination sarting in Janury, 2021...

My life has become a virtual life. Yes, I have always been a deafblind person who tries to have as much as physical contact as I can but I had to adapt myself to this moment. I have already written about the biggest enemies of a deafblind person: impatience and distancing. My God !!!! During the pandemic, these enemies have got bigger than ever.

The pandemic demands a social distancing and it is like an atomic bomb to the deafblind community from all over the world! Social distancing in a pandemic is needed, but for us, deafblind people, it is a catastrophe.

Everything online, yes! I get it! I understand it because of the pandemic, but I have always warned deafblind people about the dangers we have been through when we have to live "on a computer". No, this cannot happen! We, deafblind people, must have much more physical contact than virtual contact.

Be careful! We, deafblind people, are human beings and must be careful about an exaggerated "online" life. Despite of my complexity, I want to fight a lot to keep being a human being. I will never accept to become a hardware, a software.

My receptive communication happens through "pal of the hand writing". I have reached all I got by using it and I want to keep doing it.

It is important to highlight that in Brazil thre deafblind people who have a support of a guide interpreter are few. I myself do not have one to always be with me. I have to search for support when I need it. So, this issue about not having a guide interpreter is something that can destroy us!

Please, share! Thank you for the opportunity. I hope my text and material can collaborate!

Distance and impatience .... bombastic!

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With my best and kind regards!

We keep in touch!

Alex Garcia - Brazil

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