LeftyByDefault.com – Laura Overstreet

In my regular presentations and discussions about disability awareness to college students, I am often asked about the best ways to help a person with a disability or to ask if we need help.  Occasionally, parents are looking for ways to help their children talk to other children or adults with disabilities.  I usually tell [...]

Last week I got some big news – I’ll be teaching at Kennesaw State University in the fall!  I will be a part-time instructor in the Human Services program and will teach the Human Socialization class.  I am beyond excited!!  This was my favorite class in the curriculum when I was a student and the [...]

The text of this blog is short to tell you about the podcast I just did with Many Worlds Network creator Alexander Kaminsky.  We chatted about my perspectives and experiences with disability.  Good fun for a Sunday.  Check it out here!  It plays for about 28 minutes.

Monday I put on my well-worn disability awareness speaker hat and spoke to a college class about ableism, able-bodied privilege. (Well, it’s not really a hat but more of a speaker voice I tune. It’s only slightly different than my usual voice. I can’t command it, it just happens.) It was a human services class [...]

Yesterday was a an absolutely gorgeous Georgia day. I believe the temperature got above 70 degrees, and I was dressed in my favorite spring attire: smooth, khaki colored dress pants, a pink and white striped Oxford shirt, and a white pullover cable-knit sweater. I was just a few colors short of an Easter egg. With [...]

 I am a regular guest lecturer/speaker on disability awareness topics in classes at Kennesaw State University. I have been doing it for nearly 10 years and love it! I get to experience so much; I hone my public speaking skills, learn about and impart disability awareness, challenge myself, answer endless important questions, get involved in [...]