World Stroke Day 2022

Today October 29th 2022 is World Stroke Day 2022. In appreciation of the stroke survivors who have inspired us such as one stroke survivor who allowed us to interview her personally to add to the authenticity of Professor Ben’s character, symptoms and recovery process, in our film  "A Stroke Of Endurance" and other survivors who supported our film “A Stroke Of Endurance” from the very beginning of its creation, and after like our wonderful new fans who are stroke survivors that let us into their worlds https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-stroke-of-endurance-featured-on.html Crip Video Productions would like to now be a part of World Stroke Day every year! We wrote a post for World Stroke Day 2018 here https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2019/01/screening-and-world-stroke-day-2018.html and for World Stroke Day 2019 here https://cripvideoproductions.blogspot.com/2019/10/world-stroke-day-2019.html Please read our previous posts linked for a poem by a cast member of "A Stroke Of Endurance" for World Stroke Day and, reminders and encouragement for Stroke Survivors!  This year we would also like you to be aware of a condition called spinal stroke which is a stroke to the spinal cord that can cause paralysis and is rare. 
 To watch “A Stroke Of Endurance” for free with open captions and audio description (audio description intially created by Dylan Rothbein and completed by Tucker Salovaara) and share it with other stroke survivors and their loved ones for World Stroke Day see here http://cripvideoproductions.com/astrokeofendurance.php We hope "A Stroke Of Endurance" is a great resource for all stroke survivors and their loved ones for World Stroke Day today and everyday!

2 Talks on education

On September 28 2022, I spoke to a group of students who are becoming special education teachers about Cerebral Palsy, media representation of disability, and education for disabled students. We discussed some movies the students had already watched for the class and the meaning behind “Crip” in Crip Video Productions. We discussed “Drama Sighted” and “A Stroke Of Endurance”. The students told me what resonated with them in what they had watched. Some students shared how they had seen disabled people get underestimated by doctors and the larger society. Some didn’t know people with invisible disabilities could use the ADA. On October 6th 2022 I spoke to another group of students learning to be teachers for very young children. The discussion was about Crip Video Productions, Cerebral Palsy, and individualizing education accommodations and building accessibility into a course as a course is being designed from the beginning. We talked about disability representation in books and the fact that students will have disabled parents that the teacher will also have to accommodate.