Issues and Education: Dignity of Risk
June 9, 2022
By June Converse. What is the riskiest thing you’ve ever done? Scuba diving? Skydiving? Driving on the highway in a large city? Choosing one job over another? In the Universal...
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Mentor Spotlight: Where Is Eddie Now?
June 2, 2022
By June Converse. In last week’s post, we introduced you to Eddie Martinez. Eddie’s desire and willingness to learn the unicycle was one of the first steps in Lauren’s journey...
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Mentor Spotlight: Eddie Martinez
May 26, 2022
By Lauren Lieberman. Can a Student Who Is Deafblind Learn to Ride a Unicycle? When I started to tell my story, I began, as we all would, at the beginning....
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Athlete Spotlight: Chris Smoker
May 20, 2021
By June Converse. Thirty Seconds to Re-Imagine: A Self-Advocacy Case Study Our last post centered around the Self-Advocacy program being developed for the campers at Camp Abilities in Brockport. When...
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Issues and Education: A Practice Guide for Self-Advocacy
May 6, 2021
By June Converse. In the last blog, we presented Camp Abilities – Brockport’s more organized method for teaching and practicing Self-Advocacy. One aspect of that training was helping the people...
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Issues and Education: Advocacy
April 22, 2021
By June Converse. Advocacy Is A Sport Andrew, an 8th grader, loves to play sports. He especially loves goalball. But he hated sports at school. His physical education teacher didn’t...
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Sponsor Spotlight: Griffin Pinkow
April 8, 2021
By June Converse. “I am not uncomfortable with my visual impairment. As a matter of fact, I believe my visual impairment is one of my greatest strengths because I learned...
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Camp Spotlight: Virtual
March 25, 2021
By June Converse. As summer approached and COVID spread across the world, camps all over the United States were closing. Not Camp Abilities. The world of Camp Abilities is about...
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Athlete Spotlight: Where Is Paul Now?
March 11, 2021
By June Converse. Last week, you read about Paul from Camp Abilities Alaska. Paul is now 23 years old. He moved away from Alaska when he was 19 and currently...
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Athlete Spotlight: Paul Tandy
February 25, 2021
By Lauren Lieberman. Meeting Paul in Alaska: Only 360 Days Paul was nine years old in 2005 when I met him at Camp Abilities in Wasilla, Alaska, a small town...
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Welcome To Camp Abilities World
February 18, 2021
By Lauren Lieberman. The Ferry Ride In 2009 I was sitting on a ferry in Alaska while on vacation. Those of you who know me will not be surprised to...
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