Enabling Occupation

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Enabling Occupation

• My Life
• My Story
• My Work
• My Home
• My Life-Tools

• Travel
• Access
• Attitudes
• Questions
• My Family

David N Wallace dnwallace_at_gmail.com
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MY LIFE

• David Wallace

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MY LIFE

• David Wallace

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My Story

• Born Adelaide
• (Year JFK died)
• School Adelaide Country SA
• Trade School Mechanic
• (wired to solve problems)
• Accident 19 Sept 1981
• (C4/5 Quadriplegic)
• Rehab. - 5 weeks RAH, 5 months total

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My Work

• After accident continued Trade School as I could
• Used electric typewriter but had failings
• Explored early PC as enhanced typewriter
• 1984 got first PC (Mac)
• End 80s got first modem
• Used modem to help admin part of a BBS in
  Adelaide
• Shared what communications technology had done
  for me
• 1992 - led to meeting re setting up BBS for PWD
• 1993 Employed Full-time as IT Coordinator DIRC

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My Home

• Live in my own home
• Home was modified existing home (not built new)
• Modified not just to suit me only but me in
  particular (universal design)
• Cater for those around me (I do have chairs and
  sofa)

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My Life-Tools

• Technology
• Technology as a tool
• Appropriate not necessarily high
• Adaptation
• Positioning a device (my physical space)
• Modification
• Changing a device (function)
• Manufacture
• Making a device (no existing tool)

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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Tools Adapt, Modify, Make
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Travel

• Logistical nightmare
• Same problems as at home just more!
• Accomodation
• Care
• Transport
• Unfamiliar environment

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Travel

• Accomodation
• Where will I be able to stay
• Where is it located
• Care
• How going get in/out bed
• How going eat
• Transport
• How to get there
• How to get around once there

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Access

• Built Environment Services
• Buildings
• Facilities in buildings (toilet)
• Public spaces
• Transport
• Communication (telephone)
• Universal Design The design of products and
  environments to be usable by all people, to the
  greatest extent possible without the need for
  adaptation or specialized design.

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Attitudes

• Attitude determines your Altitude
• Attitudes of community to PWD
• Attitudes of those with disability

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Blogs
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Blogs
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Questions

• Questions for David,
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• Time Issues
• How do you manage your time? (regimine, routine,
  prioritise Jed, pda, tools)
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• Being Disabled
• Describe how stigmas related to people in
  wheelchairs affect you. (indirectly)
• What is your social life like? (whats yours
  like? more specific)
• What were your initial experiences of being in a
  wheelchair? (dizziness)
• What are your likes/dislikes about how people
  treat you? (like anyone. Like to be included,
  thought of, not taken for granted, loved,
  appreciated- dis spec. assume things about me,
  touching shaking hands)
• How have your planning and problem solving
  abilities been affected? (havent, just tred and
  tested)
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• Travel
• Have you travelled with your wheelchair?
• Any hints, strategies for managing?
• Where have you travelled.  Did you face any
  problems/difficulties? What activities did you
  engage in when you travelled.
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• What do you think of health professionals-
  honestly?
• What are your experiences of Occupational
  Therapy? early exp. know person/needs find
  tools

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My Family
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