Students with disabilities?

[RaggedyAnn]

I had a pledge sister with a muscular distrophy. We never even talked about it really. It was brought out in the open and a couple of accomodations were made along the way, but then we all kind of just forgot about it. I think I had a chapter sister with a type of dwarfism too, but again, it wasn't talked about. Our relationship was with the person, not the disability.

We also have a scholarship available for hearing impaired sisters.

[carnation]

Remember Heather Whitestone, the almost totally deaf Miss America? She was a pledge of my daughter's AOII chapter.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by carnation

Remember Heather Whitestone, the almost totally deaf Miss America? She was a pledge of my daughter's AOII chapter.

Unfortunately she never initiated. I don't know why she didn't...maybe because she won Miss America and didn't come back the next semester. She spoke at convention in 1995 when I attended as a junior in college.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by carnation

Remember Heather Whitestone, the almost totally deaf Miss America? She was a pledge of my daughter's AOII chapter.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Unfortunately she never initiated. I don't know why she didn't...maybe because she won Miss America and didn't come back the next semester. She spoke at convention in 1995 when I attended as a junior in college.

This brought to mind the lovely woman who initiated into Zeta when she was in her 90s. Perhaps AOII and Heather may mutually reach out to one another? Perhaps? It's just a thought, that's all.

On this topic: way back (when God was a baby) and there was no ADA or anything of that nature, our chapter had an outstanding member who was wheelchair-bound. We never gave it a second thought; I don't even remember talking about it when I went through recruitment. She lived in the facility, in a ground floor room. It's just how it was, and that was that. In hindsight I'm sure she had many challenges that we weren't aware of.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

I had a pledge sister with a muscular distrophy. We never even talked about it really. It was brought out in the open and a couple of accomodations were made along the way, but then we all kind of just forgot about it. I think I had a chapter sister with a type of dwarfism too, but again, it wasn't talked about. Our relationship was with the person, not the disability.

This sounds so like us

One of our sisters had an arm that stopped at the elbow - I think her mom had taken Thalidomide. People would talk to her for an hour or two before they'd even realize it.