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09/29/2020

Men's Fall Outfit Ideas with Pro Football Player Josh Allen | JCPenney

• The Suit Up webpage has been embedded in the flyer to make it easy for your students to access from any format you provide them this information. All they need to do is click the word “here” and the page will pull up. I am also providing the link for any additional communications you may provide to your students. The website link is: www.jcpenney.com/m/suit-up

• For the coupons, each school has been assigned a unique coupon code. With over 300 schools participating in Suit Up this fall, we did our best to create a code that would be easy for your students to remember. The system will kick back a notification if they input the incorrect information. Students can use this coupon in-store or online, and will be able to begin requesting coupons 2 days prior to your scheduled event.
• The offer reflected on the flyer for the online event is Extra 30% off. During an in-store event, we can determine the sale price of the items that students are purchasing while they are in store and can promote the Up to 60% off. When students are shopping online, we cannot know what day they will be making their purchase, and because sales fluctuate online, we are not able to advertise the event differently than Extra 30%. The coupon will still take additional off the sale price, so there is no change when the students use the coupon.
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• If you want to include any visuals, here are some videos located on our page. Feel free to review and share with your students if you like.
o https://www.facebook.com/416390918442485/videos/235117374237138 or https://www.instagram.com/p/B_AhcRjnOAl/
o https://www.facebook.com/416390918442485/videos/426832184602667 or https://www.instagram.com/p/B2VNKKsn5gK/
o https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLVt1Omx6MHgVMaynFvAfdeRK_utoqh0VL&loop=1&rel=0&cm_re=ZA-_-GALLERY-_-GRID-_-CAT-MENS_SUITS-_-Banner-WatchVideo_4
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYxOdXkIT_o&list=PLVt1Omx6MHgWSN3i8SGN_-03B0ZyUMlCU&index=3
o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_t37kDUg-k&list=PLVt1Omx6MHgWSN3i8SGN_-03B0ZyUMlCU

If you have any questions before, during or after your event, please reach out.


Nicole McNiel
Sr. Specialist, Store Events
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09/29/2020

For Good Communication, Timing Is Everything

Hopefully the timing of this article is just right for you!

If you want to listen, be heard, and connect in your ADHD marriage, context matters — so try these tips for choosing a time to share what's on your mind.

09/29/2020

The 2020 Disability Summit hosted by the Massachusetts Office on Disability

2020 Disability Summit - Thursday, October 29, 9am-1pm

The Massachusetts Office on Disability will be hosting the 6th annual Disability Summit virtually on October 29, 2020 from 9:00am-1:00pm.

The 2020 Disability Summit focuses on reasonable accommodations within employment and socialization in a virtual world with a wide range of engaging speakers from State Government, Non-Profit Agencies, Healthcare, and Disability Organizations.

The goal of this year's sixth annual summit is to highlight accommodations, self-care, socialization, and resources during the pandemic that can be applied to our personal and professional lives.

To REGISTER for the event. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2020-disability-summit-hosted-by-the-massachusetts-office-on-disability-tickets-119150322823

The 2020 Disability Summit focuses on Reasonable Accommodations and Socialization in a Virtual World with a wide range of engaging speakers.

09/29/2020

Disability Book Series: Join Alice Wong on Disability Visibility - Sunday, 10/4, from 7 - 9pm EST

Join a conversation with Alice Wong, editor of Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century and founder of Disability Visibility.

Find out more and register to secure your spot in the Zoom Room on Eventbrite.

Alice Wong (she/her) is a disabled activist, media maker, and consultant. She is the Founder and Director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing and amplifying disability media and culture created in 2014. Currently, Alice is the Editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century, an anthology of essays by disabled people.

This event will have both ASL interpreters and live CART captioning services.
For any additional accessibility needs, please contact Peter Estes at (415) 546-1333 ext 309 or [email protected].

09/29/2020

The Working Single Mom

09/29/2020

Jason's Connection

Moving From A Deficit Medical Model To A Cultural Model When Considering Neurodivergent Individuals And The Autism Spectrum - by Everyday Aspergers

"The more we can pull back from a medical model of autism and have mature open discussions about the transitioning meaning of autism, wherein actual autistic individuals are brought to the table, the more we can break out of groupthink and apply cognitive diversity to bring quality supports to the autistic community." The medical deficit model, of looking at autism through a narrow scope of biologically flawed and abnormal, needs to shift. Where there is much to be said in the necessity of finding support means for autistic people, there is also much to be said on finding ways in which professionals use a scope of neurodiversity to analyze and interpret autism and autistic human beings. Starting with recognizing the diversity of the autistic spectrum itself. We need to break through the damaging paradigm of deficit and rise into the wide open space of diversity.

Autism is no longer only a disorder. Some would argue it’s not a disorder at all. Numbering 1000s and 1000s of individuals on the spectrum and their supporters, the autistic minority movement itself is evident that autism is part of a culture. Beyond a disorder or condition, autism is now commonly claimed as an identity. Those who think this shift in consciousness of a word and label doesn’t make a difference in research and discovery, ought think again

Continue Reading:
https://everydayaspie.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/moving-from-a-deficit-medical-model-to-cultural-model-when-considering-neurodivergent-individuals-and-the-autism-spectrum/

Image: Black bird perched atop an empty closed cage with words below reading: Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness. In all capitals. Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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09/28/2020

Awakened Neurodivergence

Thoughts?

Image: Tweet response from What duck? @geeoharee in response to @KHandozo that reads:

"We can't distinguish autistic behavior from trauma because our current society produces no un-traumatized autistic people."

09/27/2020

Awakened Neurodivergence

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Screenshot of a tweet from user @_SamBosworth that reads:

"Non-disabled people don’t realize that disabled folks don’t just ‘get’ mobility aids, or medication, or surgery, or any support whatsoever. It is a CONSTANT fight to be ‘disabled enough’ for the support you need from a system that is desperate to find a reason not to help."

09/25/2020

Revelatori

If you feel like you can’t function at full capacity right now, there are very good reasons why. Inspired by my dear friend Amy, whose conversation with me on this topic made me say “Ohhhhhh. I guess I should stop beating myself up, then.” (I haven’t, but I am trying.)

09/24/2020

I am excited that The Ohio State University's Department of Art and the Wexner Center for the Arts are hosting Christine Sun Kim for a free public on-line event.

If you are not familiar with her work you might have seen her signing the national anthem and America The Beautiful at the Super bowl. Christine will be joined by Marla C. Berkowitz, Senior Lecturer in the American Sign Language and Johanna Burton, Director of the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Christine Sun Kim
Title Zero
Oct 02, 2020 3:00 PM
Online - Free for all audiences (registration required)

In her talk Title Zero (a Deaf English loanword for "no title"), Berlin-based artist Christine Sun Kim will share multiple projects that visualize, critique, and contextualize how sound operates in her life and work, as well as its relationship to her Deaf and hearing collaborators, family, and friends.

Kim's work examines sound and language via musical notations, poetic sound captions from film clips, pie chart drawings, as well as American Sign Language in all its complexities. Her drawings of Deaf rage and other works respond to all-too-frequent experiences of discrimination and inaccessibility and offer profound and humorous insights into issues of social justice and the human condition.

Title Zero
Oct 02, 2020 3:00 PM
Register
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at [email protected] or via telephone at (614) 688-3890. Requests made by September 18 will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Cosponsored by Ohio State's Department of Art's Visiting Artist Program and the Wexner Center for the Arts with support from Ohio State's American Sign Language Program and ADA Coordinator's Office.

MADE POSSIBLE BY:
• American Electric Power Foundation
• Greater Columbus Arts Council
• The Columbus Foundation
• Ohio Arts Council
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Huntington Bank
• Nationwide Foundation

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY:
• Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
• Kaufman Development

09/24/2020

Awakened Neurodivergence

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A tweet from anthony michael lopez (@flittergaggot) that reads:

"The root of ableism is the denial of fragility. Our bodies are guaranteed to fail, in lots of small ways, until, eventually, the big way. Most disabled people live with this reality every day to some degree. Able-bodied ppl have the luxury of ignoring it until they can't. #ada30"

09/24/2020

We Have to Stop Thinking of Being ‘Healthy’ as Being Morally Better

We Have to Stop Thinking of Being ‘Healthy’ as Being Morally Better

Enthusiasm for wellness can curdle into healthism and concern trolling.

09/22/2020

BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed

John Furniss, aka “The Blind Woodsman,” has gone viral for his wooden masterpieces 🤯

09/22/2020

Nonprofit Wants To Create 101,000 Jobs For People With Autism

Nonprofit Wants To Create 101,000 Jobs For People With Autism

An autism nonprofit in one state is setting an ambitious goal to address the employment needs of residents on the spectrum — to create 101,000 jobs within 10 years.

09/22/2020

Ginsburg Remembered For Impact On Disability Rights

Ginsburg Remembered For Impact On Disability Rights

Best known for standing up for women's rights, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also played an outsized role in ensuring the rights of people with disabilities, advocates say.

09/22/2020

Clarke names new president and CEO

Clarke names new president and CEO

NORTHAMPTON — Recently, a new leader took the reins at the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech, which has one of its five locations in Northampton.Bruce Skyer became president and CEO in late August, and he hopes to help keep Clarke going into the...

09/21/2020

Please attend! Open to all but particularly seeking faculty and student involvement!

09/21/2020

Please attend! It's time we discuss ableism openly and how we can improve as a campus!

09/21/2020

Adult Reading Strategies — BrainLENS

Dear friends,

NCLD is pleased to share information about some very exciting work being done by Dr. Fumiko Hoeft, a leading neuroscientist, and a member of NCLD’s Professional Advisory Board. We would like to invite you to participate in some truly fascinating and cutting-edge research.

If you live near the University of Connecticut campus and are curious about how reading “happens” in the brain, check out these 2 opportunities:

1.The Adult Reading Strategies program: Participants must be ages 18-30 and willing to make several visits to the UConn -Storrs campus for testing and scanning (no, it won’t hurt!). All participants will get a comprehensive neuropsychological report (free!), actual brain scan pictures (very cool) and even some cash for being a good sport and helping advance the science of reading. Learn more at www.brainlens.org/strategies or contact the lab at [email protected].

2. The Family Brain Program: We know a lot about how certain traits ‘run in families’ and here’s your chance to advance the science about nature vs. nurture when it comes to reading and math. Participants in this research are parents and their children (ages 7-12). Everyone will get reports, pictures of their brain, and money for their time and cooperation. This project requires visits to either of the research sites: the University of Connecticut (Storrs) or the University of California (San Francisco). Learn more at www.brainlens.org/strategies or contact the lab at [email protected].

This New England based research project examines the brain mechanisms of reading and dyslexia in young adults. It integrates multiple, cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques to uncover the flexibility and resilience in adult brains with dyslexia. We hope this research will progress current models of r...

09/21/2020

Viewpoints Joanna Buoniconti: Breaking up with former caregivers

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I have had nurses for as long as I can remember, but it never gets easier to say goodbye to one.“No one will ever love you until you’re able to walk,” one of my daytime nurses casually stated while she was helping me use the toilet one afternoon,...

09/19/2020

Disability-Inclusive Climate Action

Disability-Inclusive Climate Action

Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Organizer McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism Location Virtual Event Host Contact Details [email protected] Connect Tuesday Sept 22 4:00 PM 6:00 PM Register Now Clean Energy Transition Climate Impacts and Adaptation Industry and Built Environment T...

09/19/2020

What I’ve Learned from Loving a Disabled Man

What I’ve Learned from Loving a Disabled Man

My husband is funny, shy, gentle, and kind. He also happens to have cerebral palsy.

09/18/2020

Perspectives on Covid-19 and Anti-Asian Bias and Xenophobia | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Perspectives on Covid-19 and
Anti-Asian Bias and Xenophobia

Wed. Sept. 23, 2020
12pm - 2pm
Open to the UMass Amherst community and public but registration is required at:
https://www.umass.edu/diversity/events/perspectives-covid-19-and-anti-asian-bias-and-xenophobia

Part I: Faculty Panel and Q&A (12:00-1:00pm)
• “The Larger Context of Anti-Asian Racism”
C.N. Le, Senior Lecturer II in Sociology and Director of the Asian & Asian American Studies Certificate
• “U.S. Empire-building and Anti-Asian Racism: A Historical Perspective”
Richard T Chu, Five College Associate Professor of History
• “How Would an Inclusive Community Talk about China?”
Sigrid Schmalzer, Professor of Chinese history and a Vice President of the Massachusetts Society of Professors
• “Recuperating Multiracial Labor Solidarity as a Meaningful APA Politics: Lessons from the Filipino ‘Essential’ Workers of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee”
Cedric de Leon, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Labor Center
• “Creative Responses to Anti-Asian Racism during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Michael Sakamoto, Interim Director of Programming and Director of Asian/Asian American Arts and Culture
• “Anti-Black Racism and Anti-Asian Racism: Bridging Divides, Renewing Solidarities”
Sangeeta Kamat, Professor of Comparative and International Education, College of Education
Part II: Students, Staff, and Community Members and Q&A (1:00-2:00pm)
• Hwei-Ling Greeney, founder and executive director of Amherst Community Connections
• Jay Wong, Program Director and Brooke Kamalani Yuen, Western MA Coordinator of the Asian American Commission of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Sonia Lindop, Project Director for Auxiliary Enterprises Career Ladder Program
• Lily Tang, undergraduate student and staff at the Yuri Kochiyama Cultural Center and founder of the UMass Amherst Annual Asian American Film Festival
• Shao Yu Tseng (Dora), staff from GEO and Disability Services
• Lian Guo, PhD Candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rise in harassment, bullying, verbal assaults, and violence directed at Asian Americans and those within the Asian diaspora. These incidents connect to a long history of anti-Asian racism that has been supported by laws, institutions and representations, along with a long history of resistance by Asian Americans in solidarity with other communities of color. This panel presents various perspectives from a diverse group of UMass Amherst faculty, professional staff, graduate and undergraduate students, and community members.

Through brief presentations and Q & A with participants, we hope to foster deeper understanding of current events and examples of how Asian American scholars, artists, and movements have responded, drawing connections to recent activism for racial justice by Black communities. The panels and Q&A will be moderated by Miliann Kang, Associate Professor and Director of Diversity Advancement, College of Humanities and Fine Arts.

Organized by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Co-sponsored by the Asian & Asian American Studies Certificate Program, the Department of History, the Labor Center, the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Asian & Asian American Arts and Culture Program, the Fine Arts Center, the College of Education, and the Massachusetts Society of Professors.

September 23, 2020 from 12:00-2:00pm Part I: Faculty Panel and Q&A (12:00-1:00pm); Part II: Students, Staff, and Community Members and Q&A (1:00-2:00pm) Registration Required Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rise in harassment, bullying, verbal assaults, and violence direct...