Katherine Schneider - Adventures in Living With Disabilities

Left of Inspiration

Katherine is retired from her career as a clinical psychologist and author of To The Left of Inspiration: Adventures in living with disabilities. Blind from birth, Katherine has powerful insight into the dynamics of disabilities in our society.

She used the inheritance from her father to create the Schneider Family Book Awards, recognizing the inclusion of people with disabilities in literature.

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I'm A Little Cookie - John McCutcheon
What You Do With What You've Got - Si Kahn
Let's Face It - Peter Alsop & Bill Harley

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Adventures in Living With Disabilities - Katherine Schneider
Computer access for blind web surfers
Katherine's resources have been dramatically enriched by her talking computer, which allows her to access all kinds of materials via the web.
Why Should We Care?
On both practical and spiritual levels, we can ask the question - why should we (unhandicapped people) care? Katherine gives us a couple good reasons.
Why the title, To The Left of Inspiration
Katherine explains a few levels of the inspiration for the title of her memoir.
Theodocy: Why Did God Make This Happen
I asked Katherine what part her blindness played in God's plan, and this was her response.
How to grade fairly for handicaps
Katherine weighs in on the fair way to do grading of blindness and other handicaps - particularly of a blind student in an Optics course of Physics.
Disability
Blindness
Accessibility
Discrimination
Inclusiveness
Schneider Family Book Awards
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