[sopvid] Re: SOPVID's name
- From: Lawrence Mute <lamumu07@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: sopvid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:20:07 +0300
Hey! Did someone call me a spade!?
LM
On 2/21/14, kamau victor <citrov.amuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Joseph:
> A spade is a spade. It is also invariably an agricultural tool, and also a
> big spoon for digging the soil. Impairment can denote impairment in the full
>
> context of life, by a visual inability, because it is an "inability" to see,
>
> varying in degree. I therefore think "visual disability can encampass all of
>
> those like me who can not see even a bulb shining the room like day, or
> those only impaired because they can see but not well enough to read print.
>
> Whereas I do not think "visual impairment" would accurately describe me,
> "Visual disability" would describe many of us. I think that is the way the
> debate developped at the foundation of SOPVID. I have to say this is not the
>
> only available perception, and we can have a lively discussion.
>
>
> V.M. Kamau Esq. Advocate
> P.O. Box 242-00202 KNH
> Nairobi.
> Tel: +254-715819722
> Email: citrov.amuka@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Fiat Justitia Ruat Coelum
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reginald Oduor" <rmjoduor@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <sopvid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:44 AM
> Subject: [sopvid] SOPVID's name
>
>
>> Hello Joseph Epuu
>>
>> Many thanks for your suggestion.
>>
>> However, as we were forming the society over ten years ago, we
>> thoroughly debated the issue and arrived at the present name. Indeed,
>> both "impairment" and "disability" denote a limitation. I actually
>> think that each of us must come to terms with our limitation
>> (disability/impairment/blindness/partial blindness), for then we shall
>> be more confident as we interact with the world.
>>
>>
>> Warm regards
>> --
>> Reginald M.J. Oduor, Ph.D.
>> Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Nairobi
>> (http://profiles.uonbi.ac.ke/oduor_reginald)
>> Editor-in-Chief, Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical
>> Association of Kenya (http://ajol.info/index.php/tp/index)
>> Chairman, Society of Professionals with Visual Disabilities (SOPVID)
>> Vice-Chairman, Kenya Society for the Blind
>> P.O. Box 41693-00100
>> Nairobi, Kenya
>> Email: rmjoduor@xxxxxxxxx OR rmjoduor@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Tel.: 254 20 2160951
>> Mob.: 254 722 625555
>> Skype: reginald.oduor
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/19/14, Epuu Elim <elimpuu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Dear members of the society,
>>>
>>> indeed, I'm quite exuberated for da cordial hospitality demonstrated
>>> by sopvid to me. I know i will be on top on technological issues
>>> related to visual imparement. Colleagues! i wish to propose amendment
>>> to our name only if it is workable.Suppose we call ourselves a society
>>> of professionals with visual imparement.Disability denote incapability
>>> and incapacitation,yet we are equally capable professionals equal to
>>> the task.
>>> Technologically, i am still disabled. It is my humble request to the
>>> society to fully empower me technologically to be able to read with
>>> others on the same script.
>>> Best regards,
>>> Epuu Joseph Elim.
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