Disability Leadership Summit

I am applying for the disability leadership summit this summer, though I still haven't recieved the recommendations that I need to send with the application. I hope they send them soon, since the deadline is coming up. May 29th is the deadline. I hope I get to go this year. A few friends have gone in the past, and it seems like a lot of fun. I am just about done filling out the application. I have one more question left.

American With Disabilities Act

http://www.ada.gov/

This is the Americans With Disabilities Act website. This has very important information for disabled people, like employment, transportation, housing, and more.

Youth With Disabilities Leadership Summit of Illinois Website

http://www.silcofillinois.org/

The website for the Youth With Disabilities Leadership Summit of Illinois.

American Sign Language Letters

I took sign language my second semester of college. I love sign language, and want to learn more soon.

Disability

I love this one because it shows that people with disabilities can break free from the stereotypes, and that they can do what they set their mind to do.

I am...

I am...

Determined when I want to be
Intelligent
Able, amiable
Nice
Extraordinary

Learning everyday

Georgeous
Easy-going
Not going to let anything or anyone get me down
Grateful for those in my life
Empathetic

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I may be shy, but actions speak louder than words.

I may have a disability, but I am not disabled.

I do not know everything, but I know some things.

I may not do everything you can do, but I can do things you can't do.

I will not conform to what everyone thinks I should be.

The only thing I can be is myself.

I will not let anyone tell me otherwise.

I have my own personality, my own mind, my own style, my own life.

I will not act the way you want me to act, think or say what you want me to do, think or say.

I will not wear what you want me to wear.

I will not live my life the way you want me to live.

I am my own person, and I will always be my owv person.

Having a disability does not make me any less of a human being.

It does not make me a freak, a monster.

I am as human as anyone else, and no one can say otherwise.

I have my own way of doing things, and that's the way it will always be.

And that's the way I like it.

I may take longer to learn things than others, but I am not stupid.

I may have faults, but everyone has faults.

All of this makes me, me.