Assalaamu alaikum (peace be with you) --
The purpose of this blog is to continue the discussion that we started at the ISNA Panel, "Improving Inclusion of Muslims with Disabilities in Islamic Community Life."
Please use this blog to post comments, ask questions, share resources, and exchange experiences. The panelists and organizers will do the same.
Together, let's work to make our Muslim communities -- and broader society -- more inclusive for people of all abilities.
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Assalaamu Alaikum
ReplyDeleteIn reading the handout it states " an electronic copy of the handout will be available". Can someone direct me to it?
Make Your Voice Heard on Capitol Hill Urge House Subcommittee Members to Increase Funding for Arthritis Prevention Take Action!
ReplyDeleteTake Action Now
On Friday, July 10, the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee plans to markup the bill, which funds the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's arthritis prevention program. The Arthritis Foundation asks you to remind these key Members of the importance in investing in arthritis prevention.
Arthritis is the most common cause of disability in the United States. Research shows that the pain and disability of arthritis can be decreased through early diagnosis and appropriate management, including evidence-based self-management activities such as weight control and physical activity. Investing in prevention has a proven return on investment. For every $1 invested in community level prevention, there is a savings of over $5 dollars in public and private health care expenditures within just 5 years. Support for the CDC and evidence based state and private programs to combat arthritis will help reduce disability, pain and health care costs for the millions of Americans with arthritis.
Please contact your U.S. Representative NOW about arthritis prevention funding.
Does anyone have the link to the ISNA event? What was produced from this event? Please share action items.
ReplyDelete“Whoever visits a sick person or visits a brother in Islam, a caller cries out to him: ‘May you be happy, may your walking be blessed, and may you occupy a dignified position in Paradise.’” Tirmidhi
ReplyDeleteAssalaamu Alaikum ...
ReplyDeleteYou can send an e-mail to the panel organizers:
faaida1@gmail.com
Isra Bhatty was the moderator
This session provided a critical discussion about how disability as a concept is viewed in Islam, the rights of Muslims with disabilities, and the responsibilities of the Muslim community at large towards these members and their families. The session had a very significant practical service element that allowed those affected by disability and advocates to speak from their experiences about the needs and challenges.
ReplyDeleteSpeakers were: Zaid Shakir, Mona M Amer, Mobin Tawakkul, Mohammed Youfuf
sorry, I meant: Mohammed Yousuf
ReplyDeleteRabbi Lynne Landsberg
ReplyDeletewas in attendance she is
Senior Adviser on Disability Issues
at the Religious Action Center in DC
Contact info: 202-387-2800
llandsberg@rac.org
www.rac.org
RFB&D
ReplyDeleteLearning through Listening
Recording for the blind & Dyslexic
CT Unit
209 Orange Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone 203-624-4334
Anne Fortunato
State Director
www.rfbd.org
Naugatuck Valley Community College has classes teaching Sign language for any one who is interested in the Waterbury area.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nvctc.commnet.edu/
SALAAMS ALL
ReplyDeleteTHERE ARE MANY ISSUES ON THIS TOPIC,BUT ONE ACTION ITEM WE COULD DO IS TO PUT OUT A DIRECTORIES IN EACH STATE OF WHERE THE "ACCESSABLE MASJID'S "OF THAT STATE ARE? WHEATHER ACCESS IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE IN POWER WHEEL CHAIRS?THOSE WHO ARE BLIND DEAF WHERE THE ACCESSABLE BATHROOM FOR BROTHERS OR
SISTER'S
Kindness to the sick
ReplyDeleteHadith - Mishkat, Narrated Abu Sa'id
Allah's Messenger said, "When you go in to visit an invalid, express a hope that he will live long. That will not avert anything, but it will comfort him."
Hadith - Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 73, Number 40, Narrated An-Nu'man bin Bashir
Allah's Apostle said, "You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever with it."
Assalaamu Alaikum
ReplyDeleteJust sharing an article on sickness!
http://muslim-canada.org/health_sickness.html
Access for the Disabled
ReplyDeleteThe Department of Environmental Protection is working to ensure that all visitors have access to the many outdoor recreational opportunities available at Connecticut State Parks and Forests.
Accessible parking and picnic tables can be found at all park and forest recreation areas. Public buildings at most state parks are also accessible. The conversion process is continuing with upgraded facilities currently in design for Hopeville Pond, Mashamoquet Brook, Quaddick, and Sleeping Giant State Parks; and Pachaug and Shenipsit State Forests. In 1996, Stratton Brook State Park in Simsbury was the first to have a total retrofit making all park facilities (parking, trails, restrooms, picnic areas, beach) accessible.
http://www.ct.gov/Dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&q=325078
http://www.brs.state.ct.us/
ReplyDeleteState of Connecticut Bureau of Rehabilitation Services
About Us
Our mission: to create opportunities that allow individuals with disabilities to live and work independently.
The Bureau of Rehabilitation Services has three components:
The Vocational Rehabilitation Program
The goal of the Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Program is to assist individuals with significant physical and mental disabilities to prepare for, obtain and maintain employment. Through the provision of individualized services, persons with disabilities who are eligible for vocational rehabilitation are supported in planning for and achieving their job goals.
To be eligible for the VR program, an individual must have a physical or mental condition which poses a substantial barrier to employment, and
must require VR services in order to prepare for, find and succeed in employment. For more information on the vocational rehabilitation program:
In FFY 2006, 1,257 people entered competitive employment as a result of receiving VR services.
The vocational rehabilitation program serves persons with all disabilities except legal blindness. Individuals with legal blindness are served by the Board of Education and
Services for the Blind; their website is located at www.besb.state.ct.us.
The vocational rehabilitation program is supported by a combination of state and federal funds. To learn more about the vocational rehabilitation program, go to www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/RSA/.
Disability Determination Services
The Bureau’s Disability Determination Services (DDS) unit is responsible for deciding eligibility for the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Insurance (SSI) programs. These programs provide cash benefits to individuals who are unable to maintain employment due to the severity of their disabilities.
In FFY 2001, DDS processed nearly 35,460 claims for Social Security disability benefits.
To reach Disability Determination Services, call 1-800-842-8320.
As a result of recent policy and programmatic changes at the state and federal levels, individuals who receive Social Security disability benefits have expanded incentives to work, while maintaining some or all of their benefits. Benefits counseling is available to assist individuals to assess the impact returning to work will have on their disability benefits. More information on work incentives programs is available by contacting the
Connect to Work Center.
The Medicaid for Employed Disabled program allows persons with disabilities to be employed without risking eligibility for needed medical services through the Medicaid program. The program also allows certain individuals to keep other services they must have in order to remain employed.
The Independent Living Program
The Bureau’s Independent Living (IL) program provides comprehensive independent living services, through contracts with Connecticut’s five community-based independent living centers (ILCs). These centers offer four core independent living services:
- peer support;
- information and referral;
- individual and systems advocacy; and
- independent living skills training.
The guiding principle of independent living is the integration of the person with a disability to the fullest degree possible into the community of choice.
In addition to providing the four core independent living services, staff of Connecticut’s independent living centers work with the Bureau’s vocational rehabilitation counselors to address creatively the needs of individuals who are seeking employment as part of their goal of self-sufficiency.
The CT Tech Act Project
The primary purpose of the CT Tech Act Project is to make Assistive Technology (AT) more accessible to persons with disabilities living in Connecticut. Assistive Technology is any device, which helps an individual with a disability to maintain or improve their ability to function independently at home, work, school or in the community.
http://www.brs.state.ct.us/
Assalaamu Alaikum
ReplyDeleteI have Rheumatoid Arthritis and am always researching new information in regards to the disease. I thought this site would be helpful to others who may suffer from the same illness. I would like to start a Muslim disability online chat support group, which would provide emotional support and Allah knows best what else, if anyone is interested please let me know.