Henry Viscardi

The Abilities Story (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When Henry Viscardi, Jr. started a work center called Abilities, Inc., in 1952, it was with the proviso that only the disabled would be employed at any level. Furthermore, no charity would beasked, beyond the basic right to work and to compete. Everyone agreed that it was an inspiring human venture. There were no guidelines to teII this handful of pioneers how to get a foothold in business. And when the Center succeeded, its reputation spread across the nation and the world. Everyone agreed that this was a great triumph of the human spirit.Yet behind the triumphant picture is another side, equally stirring, told now in THE ABILITIES STORY. This is the economic struggle, the day-to-day battle to exist, to get work into the shop,to stay in operation, to meet the bills and payments on loans from the bank. Few on the outside understood that business didn't come in because people were sorry, that performancedidn't just happen because legless and armless people were dedicated and sincere and hardworking. Few understood the grim battle and the true victory in terms of crises and near economic disasters. THE ABILITIES STORY is essentially not about disabled people at all, but about a struggle of disabled people in a successful endeavor to support themselves through work. No industrial complex was ever like Abilities; none ever had to meet so many varied challenges and stay in business. None has done it with such determination, in the face of so many unexpected obstacles. None has emerged, in its own way, more triumphantly. This is a book to be read not in pity, but in pride-not merely in what the disabled of Abilities, Inc. have achieved, but in thehighest meaning of a free enterprise system that has made this story possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Viscardi Center
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1967
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798987161746
• Artikelnr.: 66301167

Autorenporträt

Dr. Henry Viscardi, Jr.Born in 1912 Henry Viscardi, Jr. is today, one of the world's most highly respected figures in the fields of rehabilitation and education. He has devoted his life to ensuring that severely disabled individuals have the opportunity to achieve their fullest potential as human beings. He has always believed that living proof is the most persuasive. In 1952 he founded the internationally famed National Center for Disability Services in Albertson, Long Island. Through its famous Henry Viscardi School and Work Center he has shown the world that there really are no disabled people-- only people with varying degrees of ability-not disability. Henry Viscardi has been an advisor to every president beginning with Franklin Roosevelt on the affairs of our nation's disabled. He holds citations from leading societies, universities and professional doctorates in international organizations, and has been awarded law, education, science, humane letters and literature many honorary degrees, including in addition to universities in America. This includes universities in England, Japan, Korea and Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a recipient of the American Exemplar Medal from the Freedom Foundation of valley Forge. In 1975, Dr. Viscardi received the New York State Board of Regents' James E. Allen Jr. Memorial Award for his great contributions to education. The National Rehabilitation Association presented him with its highest honor, the President's Award Medal, and the American Medical Association in l95l presented him with the Outstanding Service Citation, given, only four times in its one hundred and thirty year history and never before awarded to a non-medical recipient. In 1983 he received the Horatio Alger Award for Distinguished Americans and was appointed by the Congress to the National board of the Congressional Award. In 1992 he received the andrus Award from the American Association of Retired Persons and the America's Award at the John F. Kennedy center in Washington D.C. He and his wife, Lucile, live in Kings Point, Long Island and have raised four lovely daughters, They have nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.