More the Same than Different: What I Wish People Knew About Respecting and Including People with Disabilities - Softcover

Cannistra, Lorraine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1987621670 ISBN 13: 9781987621679

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

How to support people with disabilities even if you don’t know what to do.

Have you ever seen a wheelchair user who you thought might need some help, but you weren’t sure what to do? Have you ever wanted to start a conversation with someone who has a speech impediment but were afraid you might be awkward and say something offensive? Written with candid humor, profound insight and drawing from her personal experiences, this book is Lorraine’s answer to that dilemma.

More the Same than Different: What I Wish People Knew About Respecting and Including People with Disabilities is a handbook for anyone who may not have much experience interacting with people with disabilities and wants to feel more comfortable. Full of skills and strategies to implement, as well as stories from Lorraine’s personal experience, this book includes various scenarios and explains, from Lorraine’s perspective, what people did right and what could have happened differently.
Lorraine Cannistra is a speaker, a fourteen-time contributor to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Ms. Wheelchair Kansas 2007. She has been affected by cerebral palsy since birth. Additionally, she received the diagnosis of a mental illness in her early 20s. She also has a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling and a brother with a spinal cord injury. Living with her disabilities, she frequently encounters people who want to help but simply don’t know what to do.
Learn about how to;

• Help people with disabilities feel like they belong
• Use a 3-step process to assist people with disabilities without risking offending them
• Support someone dealing with mental health issues
• Appropriately be around service dogs
• Maintain the dignity of people with disabilities in a hospital setting
• Recognize the difference between inspiration and inspiration porn
• Use empowering language when communicating with people with disabilities

This book exemplifies in many ways that we are all more the same than different.

"Lorraine has been giving our readers an inside view of her life as a wheelchair user for years as a writer for Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her book is a helpful collection of observations and tips for those of us who aren't quite sure what to do when we encounter people with disabilities in our daily lives."

Amy Newmark, editor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1987621670
• ISBN 13: 9781987621679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124