Delta Alpha Pi Student Book Report

The CSU Ability Club and Delta Alpha Pi is a Disabled Student Honor Society and a club that is dedicated to educating students about people with disabilities and advocating for disabled students. Three of their menmebrs came into our class to educate us on disability. Nanette Bertoni is a graduate student with Irene Syndrome. She explained to us how her optic nerve does not translate information in the same place. She did not know she had this until she was 41 years old. This was eye opening for me because I always tended to assume that a person would instantly know if they had a disability, I was wrong. Bertoni explained that she for the most part always succeeds in school and it was not until she came to CSU where she came to a road block. She had difficulty reading black letters on white pages when her professor would give her exams. She did not understand why and it was not until she went to see the student council that she found out she had Irene Syndrome. The counsel ran some test and found out that Bertoni read perfectly on red paper. From that point on she would put a red reflecting sheet when she took exams and

She has Cerebral Palsy (CP). Hornbod was diagnosed around 2 years old. Oxygen was deprived after, during or before birth. However, CP only affects one side of her body, the right side. It makes motor movement hard, causes spasm, migraines, and arthritis. CP is a physical disability and not a learning disability but people tend to think it is a brain problem because of the name and therefore, think stupid. Hornbod taught us that she learned to live with her disability and would never want to change, its apart of herself. Also, I learned that people with a disability are the largest minority group in the world and it cuts across race, age, gender, and class. I never thought of people who were disability as a minority group since we only ever focus on race and