About Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.

The founder and director of P.O.W.E.R., Dr. Kevin Roberts, is a disabled clinical psychologist with more than 30 years of experience providing psychological help for people with disabilities. His broad experiences as a caregiver, teacher, volunteer, and disabled person make him uniquely suited to this calling. Read the full bio.

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Kevin Roberts, Ph. D., The Disability Coach

By coach | March 8, 2007

My first large error since beginning this blog——I erased the first one. The second blog remains in its entirety in the archives section, for now! A quick review of the first.
WELCOME!!!

I welcome you again to this blog for the disability coach. The Disability Coach name was coined by the manager of a sports radio station (610 Sports) in Houston, Texas. Dickie Rosenfeld gave me a very unique opportunity and I shall always remember him fondly for that, and, as one of those spunky, smaller stature guys you so frequently find in sports. Dickie was willing to put a radio show on the air about people with disabilities. Not on public broadcasting nor on a public awareness channel, but on a very successful, commercial radio sports station. He may have been small of stature, but I daresay some parts of his anatomy must been gargantuan and made of steel.

Around that time, I developed a program for people with disabilities. An educational program designed and aimed at providing experiences where natural occurrences and events had not been so kind. It was not for crazy folks, or those regarded as suffering some horrific, miserable rotten existence; it was for folks with a disability of some sort that had caused them to not get all the lessons the rest of the world may have taken for granted. Education, learning, acquiring snap and social, savior faire. This is the language for this program under discussion, not the usual words, of disease, severe injury or congential deformities. There are plenty of heart felt people working their tails off with dedication in those areas of study and they often use the language of medicine and physical rehabilitation. Thank God for them and their efforts. This program is aimed at the social, educational and psychological side of human functioning, areas that are usually neglected, for a variety of reasons perhaps, but usually neglected, when it comes to concentrated programming in these equally essential areas. I am a disabled person, I have a doctorate in clinical psychology, I have done research, taught, supervised and treated the able bodied as well as the disabled. I feel I have the inclination, ability, training and dedication to be of service to people with disabilities, and in the areas of my concentration, I can almost guarantee that no one has pulled them aside and talked the way we could.

I have termed the program, The P. O. W. E. R. Program. The P stands for Pride, The O stands for Optimism. The W stands for Wellness. The E stands for Excellence. The R stands for Resilience.

It is my sentiment and belief that all of these attributes, these characteristics, these personality features are acquirable. Like I said earlier, education and learning, words of development, not static states and impossible boundaries.
Kevin

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2 Responses to “Kevin Roberts, Ph. D., The Disability Coach”

  1. Kylie Batt Says:
    April 16th, 2010 at 8:31 am

    Давайте попытаемся быть благоразумными….

    администратор, менеджер My first large error since beginning this blog——I erased the first one…..

  2. Kylie Batt Says:
    May 13th, 2010 at 10:01 am

    Я извиняюсь, но, по-моему, Вы не правы. Я уверен. Могу отстоять свою позицию. Пишите мне в PM, поговорим….

    Система роботи по вихованню патріотизму в учнів 5-11 класів WELCOME!!!
    I welcome you again to this blog for the disability coach. T…

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