Lola sign language slow song my last English not a lot a little bit so I wish I like some people teach me more cuz I'm going because I know a little bit so anyways I'm a little bit about it but I need to work tomorrow but anymore signing people on some people I'm going to ask people they can't hear me so I was assignment of stuff so they can hear I can talk the sign language that'd be good for them all right Michelle I just want to know if I can because I'm at KZfaq a bit good for me you tell my age to channel look for a shower listening my KZfaq channel and I can you can help me not as the other stuff for my KZfaq channel and help me back from there I just want this and I cannot read and I can't read I can't write that good and I'm the one to have some of the sunlight I'm just really cuz I can't I can't read I could I cannot read I can't silence I feel a little bit and I can't write that good so I hope somebody can help me I was just so I can help me God bless you wish I listen to Michelle Elizabeth have a good day 🙏

And it helps emphasize that our disabilites are inseparable and intregal parts of who we are and what makes us diverse and unique and beautiful!

Shannonbarnesdr1 I think that's a good point you make too. Definitely, unique diverse and beautiful is the kind of world I value too...

Shannonbarnesdr1 Yes there is that part of the 'labelled disabled' community, by far not a majority but really important. I am working on another talk about the stuff that I have been thinking about, learning and living since that talk! I find a lot of people are using labels as a means to reclaim them positively and/ or to express the label as representing the extra stuff that label brings (like the Deaf community in Australia who consider themselves a unique and separate culture with abilities that hearing folks usually don't have and their own language, for example). There is also a huge difference between people using a label to exclude someone and someone using one to describe themselves or someone they know and value. A good example of the difference (and one of my pet hates) is teachers describing their class as being comprised of 21 kids and 2 "aspies" and 1 "downie", instead of 24 kids, 3 of whom have more complex support needs in the classroom! I am really cautious about focussing on labels with children too as they will one day need to decide for themselves how they identify. I think there is also often a big difference between how people use a label to describe themselves and how they want to be addressed or described by others, particularly strangers who have limited context of them and their life. I guess where I am coming from in this talk is showing people who use labels to write people off or limit them that's it's not okay and to make people think about what assumptions they have with those labels because that is the majority of the world today i.e. deaf is about not hearing, blind is about not seeing, autism is about bad behaviours that can be trained out of you (!), Down Syndrome is about dependence and good hugs, etc etc. In our family we don't think of or refer to our daughter as disabled and we rarely actually think about her diagnosis, we think of her needs as a person. So I guess that's more where I am heading with use of labels - I see a time where your label is YOUR choice. Some people will want to be loud and proud and autistic, for example (and it's a good example because there are polar views on this one), others will say it's not relevant unless it's relevant to a particular situation (like maybe work modifications or accommodations) and others still believe it's entirely a personal matter (maybe only within their family or between them and their doctor). In my own dealings with people of any kind I am trying more and more to focus on their needs and not why they have that need - unless they want to share that (and it's great how many people are sharing their views and experiences, it really helps support understanding the richness of diversity), I think it's actually none of my business! Well that reply got looooong, thanks for the prompt Shannon, you may just be the straw that got me writing and recording a new talk! Long live the revolution and three cheers for diversity :)

I've yet to meet someone that LIKES to be called or WANTS to be called autistic or disabled. 90% of people i've met (me being one) HATE being called disabled cause it sounds like the phrase "I can't"

@JennieFenton Thank you really enjoyed this Tedtalk, however like buttons&gadgetsdr1 would now refer to myself as a disabled person. As disability is not within us but a consequence of how society does or does not react to us. I am not disabled by my dyspraxia but am disabled by a teacher telling me I cannot use a fountain pen. An individual with learning difficulties is disabled by the expectations they could not do more than manual labour, or by a lack of imagination and creativity or the time to help that person learn in a different way. Disability in a way refers to our experience of the world and disability is never a negative about the individual but rather about a society, community or individuals who exclude that individual. Hoping you did another talk.

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Hi Melanie, I have no idea how to do captioning (and I have too many things on my to do list(s) ) but I will put the word out to see if anyone could do that for me. Great idea! Thank you, Jennie

Jennie Fenton You turn on captioning on this into English by hitting the CC button in the lower right corner of the video. You can do this with All KZfaq videos that are captioned! I thought it cool to watch the sign language difference from US ASL. :)

Genny164 Unless the captions are created with an actual transcript, the captioning is not accurate. The Google automatic captions are often not reliable.

Tyrone Giordano I would love to have the talk captioned but am a bit technically incompetent and have "to do" lists a mile long but it is on there. If anyone would like to offer to help, I am very open to help on this issue!

I use the KZfaq captions option a lot. They're not perfect, but still very helpful for me.

@@myrtlemyrtle3253 they’re auto-generated and not follow spelling, grammar and punctuation. They follow phonetics/sounds. Unless mostly.

+HungryGhost why?

she's a professional, and has degrees and knows more about disabilites BECAUSE her daughter is disabled. she leanred, and went to school which is why she's able to do these talks. I was assigned this video as part of my Child development class. she's a professional with a degree in special education.

Our parents go through the medical journey with us when we get diagnosed that young, as I did. They also can experience social exclusion, if they're good parents they notice how the culture affects us. She has a personal connection to disability, even though it's not her own experience, and she isn't trying to claim it as her own, she is allying with us. I value the addition of her voice because she is checking her privilege and addressing other people with able privilege. There is room for that, we don't have to do it all ourselves.

I thought she was being an interpreter.