By Katherine Schneider, for the CVPost
Global Accessibility Awareness Day was observed world-wide yesterday (May 19).
Here’s a report on how we’re doing locally.
To read more of Kathie’s report, please click on the headline.
Community Supported Journalism
By Katherine Schneider, for the CVPost
Since the pandemic first appeared, Kathie Schneider has been offering hope, heart, some keen insights and occasional bits of humor to CVPost readers.
These columns began on a weekly basis and now appear about once a month. She writes them from the perspective of a retired Chippewa Valley clinical psychologist, blind from birth.
Kathie will continue to deal with some aspects of the coronavirus pandemic but will also focus on broader topics at times. In this column, she writes from a personal perspective about ways to react when someone says “No, you don’t belong here” in some way.
To read more, please click on the headline.
By Katherine Schneider, for the CVPost
Since early in the pandemic, Kathie Schneider has been offering hope, heart, some keen insights and occasional bits of humor to CVPost readers.
Her columns, which began on a weekly basis, are now appearing periodically.
Kathie writes from the perspective of a retired Chippewa Valley clinical psychologist, blind from birth. She will continue to deal with some aspects of the coronavirus pandemic but will also focus on broader topics at times.
In this column, Kathie reflects on the various kinds of listening that we do and, as she notes, “could probably do more of.” These range from listening while crossing a street to listening to one’s conscience.
To read more of Kathie’s thoughts on this topic, please click on the headline.
By Katherine Schneider, for the CVPost
Since early in the pandemic, Kathie Schneider has been offering hope, heart, some keen insights and occasional bits of humor to CVPost readers.
Her columns, which began on a weekly basis, are now being posted periodically.
Kathie writes from the perspective of a retired Chippewa Valley clinical psychologist, blind from birth. She will continue to deal with some aspects of the coronavirus pandemic but will also focus on broader topics at times.
In this column, Kathie again confronts the uncertainty about what comes next, in light of the delta variant surge. But she provides a hopeful note in recounting the recent listening session where some 30 speakers provided input for Eau Claire County Board and City Council members on how $34 million in federal recovery funds could be allocated.
To read more of Kathie’s thoughts, please click on the headline.
By Katherine Schneider, for the CVPost
In this space, since early in the pandemic, Kathie Schneider has offered hope, heart and occasional bits of humor.
Her columns began on a weekly basis and now will be posted periodically.
Kathie writes from the perspective of a retired Chippewa Valley clinical psychologist, blind from birth. She will continue to deal with some aspects of the coronavirus pandemic but will also focus on broader topics at times.
This column is one of those with a broader focus. Kathie notes that Monday (July 26) was the 31st anniversary of the passage by Congress of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and goes into some detail about four actions she is taking both to mark the anniversary and to advocate for some changes in local procedures.
As readers of her column are well aware, Kathie has been a strong voice in advocating for meeting the needs of disabled individuals. That community includes some 61 million adults nationally.
That’s according to 2019 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and represents about 26% of the total U.S. population.
A deeper dive into the CDC’s data shows that, in 2019, some 21% of Wisconsin residents over the age of 18 had some type of disability. That translates to some 993,000 people, who live with cognitive, mobility, hearing, vision, self-care and/or independent living disabilities.
Those statistics don’t account for people living with more than one disability.
Cognitive and mobility disabilities are the most common in Wisconsin, according to these figures,
To read about how Kathie is approaching the ADA’s 31st anniversary, please click on the headline.
By Katherine Schneider, for the CVPost
In this space, since early in the pandemic, Kathie Schneider has offered hope, heart and occasional bits of humor. Her columns began on a weekly basis and now will be posted periodically as we head for whatever the “new normal” turns out to be.
Kathie writes from the perspective of a retired Chippewa Valley clinical psychologist, blind from birth. She will continue to deal with some aspects of the coronavirus pandemic but will also focus on broader topics at times.
In this column, Kathie notes that the fight against COVID-19 is likely to continue indefinitely, though at a lower level. And she offers several suggestions for coping with that situation, plus a few illustrations of how she’s coping.
To read about her thoughts on this topic, please click on the headline.