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Disability Awareness Month recognized at CSUF*|* Daily Titan
Students Navigating Accessibility hosted its first disability-featured event, Disability History Month Awareness, at Cal State Fullerton Thursday.
Members of the student organization showed and explained the history of people with disabilities and veterans who came back disabled from war. Members also spoke about the rights these people acquired over time, such as the Americans With Disabilities Act.
“Cal State Fullerton received (a) small grant for counselors who want to work with those disabled veterans that are coming back, so those are recent developments that are finally coming through,” said Roberto Cabrera, president of Students Navigating Accessibility.
Andy Arias and Sam Ha, representatives from Dayle McIntosh Center, were invited to speak at the event. The Dayle McIntosh Center is an advocacy organization that works with disabled people. It is also one of SNA’s sponsors.
Attendees and members from Students Navigating Accessibility agreed that they have not seen workshops or events that feature disabilities on campus.
“They have all the stuff on sexual harassment, but then disabled, it’s very little. There are a lot of disabled people out there. Ten percent of the U.S. population is deaf, but nobody is talking about it,” Cabrera, who is also a marriage and family therapy graduate, said. “This is the first platform for people to come in and pass the information.”
At the event, the visitors had a chance to watch the video that was produced by Collen Voronel, vice president of the SNA and marriage and family therapy graduate. The video, which had no audio, shows what deafness is like.
“Did you notice anything about the slideshow?” Voronel asked visitors. She went on to explain that the video may seem slow for hearing people because hearing people have environmental sounds that fill in the gaps of waiting time.
“Like when you are sitting in the classroom, all of other students that are hearing or talking, there is noise in the environment. But for some deaf individuals, they might feel isolated in the classroom,” Voronel said.
Professor Chip Royston said this event made him proud of what his former students, Cabrera and Voronel, have done.
“When I am informed I can make a difference for them (people with disabilities) by making them feel somebody understands and validates and affirms their experience,” said Royston, who teaches human services and anthropology at CSUF.
Michael Stone, an American studies graduate student, learned sign language at junior college in order to communicate well with his deaf friends. By learning and knowing how to sign, it gave him more opportunities to know and meet different people, he said.
“Deaf people are not afraid of hearing people, hearing people are afraid of deaf people. I don’t know why. Deaf people are very open–they welcome you,” said Stone.
Although there were not many students at the event, Cabrera said they had to start somewhere, and Voronel hopes that the event will be better next year.
Students Navigating Accessibility hosted its first disability-featured event, Disability History Month Awareness, at Cal State Fullerton Thursday.
Members of the student organization showed and explained the history of people with disabilities and veterans who came back disabled from war. Members also spoke about the rights these people acquired over time, such as the Americans With Disabilities Act.
“Cal State Fullerton received (a) small grant for counselors who want to work with those disabled veterans that are coming back, so those are recent developments that are finally coming through,” said Roberto Cabrera, president of Students Navigating Accessibility.
Andy Arias and Sam Ha, representatives from Dayle McIntosh Center, were invited to speak at the event. The Dayle McIntosh Center is an advocacy organization that works with disabled people. It is also one of SNA’s sponsors.
Attendees and members from Students Navigating Accessibility agreed that they have not seen workshops or events that feature disabilities on campus.
“They have all the stuff on sexual harassment, but then disabled, it’s very little. There are a lot of disabled people out there. Ten percent of the U.S. population is deaf, but nobody is talking about it,” Cabrera, who is also a marriage and family therapy graduate, said. “This is the first platform for people to come in and pass the information.”
At the event, the visitors had a chance to watch the video that was produced by Collen Voronel, vice president of the SNA and marriage and family therapy graduate. The video, which had no audio, shows what deafness is like.
“Did you notice anything about the slideshow?” Voronel asked visitors. She went on to explain that the video may seem slow for hearing people because hearing people have environmental sounds that fill in the gaps of waiting time.
“Like when you are sitting in the classroom, all of other students that are hearing or talking, there is noise in the environment. But for some deaf individuals, they might feel isolated in the classroom,” Voronel said.
Professor Chip Royston said this event made him proud of what his former students, Cabrera and Voronel, have done.
“When I am informed I can make a difference for them (people with disabilities) by making them feel somebody understands and validates and affirms their experience,” said Royston, who teaches human services and anthropology at CSUF.
Michael Stone, an American studies graduate student, learned sign language at junior college in order to communicate well with his deaf friends. By learning and knowing how to sign, it gave him more opportunities to know and meet different people, he said.
“Deaf people are not afraid of hearing people, hearing people are afraid of deaf people. I don’t know why. Deaf people are very open–they welcome you,” said Stone.
Although there were not many students at the event, Cabrera said they had to start somewhere, and Voronel hopes that the event will be better next year.