How to Show Respect to a Person With Autism
Editor's Note: The suggestions below come to us from Krista Mason, the mother of a child who has autism. She is the...
How to Show Respect to a Person With Autism
Preserve the Dignity
Older People Have Ears and Feelings
Older People Have Ears and Feelings
Do we sometimes forget that older people have ears and feelings? Please remember that even though an elderly person...
I am a real person!
I am a real person!
I was born legally blind and became functionally blind at age thrity-two. I have a very supportive husband, two children , and a leader dog. I function very well as director of disabled students at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Although I have obviously become sensitized to people with disabilities, I still make mistakes in dealing with my students. I have learned caregiving in an area that takes constant correction. I have found that it is important to give myself permission to make mistakes.
Caregiving Basic: Preserve the Dignity of the Person
Caregiving Basic: Preserve the Dignity of the Person
What do we see as we care for a person who is suffering? Do you see that person as a burden, an irritation, an interruption, or an old needy person? As caregivers--whether we are caring for a co-worker who is going through a divorce, or a friend who has cancer, or caring-full-time for a spouse or parent--we need to remember that the person is first of all a child created by God.
I Have Parkinson’s
I Have Parkinson’s
Are you kind and respectful to all people even to those who look or behave differently than you do? My brother,...
Until Their Last Breath
Until Their Last Breath
When Jim Jameson’s glasses were lost, nobody took the loss very seriously. After all, Jim was in Hospice care. ...
Preserve the Dignity
Preserve the Dignity
What do you see when you are caring for another person? Do you see someone who is a burden, an irritation, an old needy person, or do you look for the strength and beauty of God's image in that person? Do you help, in your method of caregiving, to preserve that person's dignity?
Elvis and Wing-Tip Shoes
Elvis and Wing-Tip Shoes
This is Elvis Evans. I am a former student of yours from way back in the days of 1977-78.
I do not think I ever had an opportunity to thank you. You were instrumental in the successes I have enjoyed in my life. In 1977, I was a lost kid looking for someone to understand me. I wore a hearing aide, which was an anomaly back then. I was also epileptic and wore orthopedic shoes, which back then only came in one style; wing tip.
