Dr. Don Bartlette This is Me

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1. 1. Speak Up Speaker Services

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   Published on: 12/11/2007   Last Visited: 12/11/2007

   Dr. Don Bartlette Speak Up Speaker Services
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   Dr. Don Bartlette has traveled extensively as a full-time public speaker throughout the United States and Canada sharing several presentations that relate to his Christian testimony for over 30 years. Married to a former special education teacher, he and his wife are the parents of seven daughters and one son, and have been foster parents to special needs kids.
   
   His major presentation, titled Macaroni at Midnight, is a profile of Dr. Bartlette's experiences as an Indian child growing up with severe speech and physical handicaps in an environment of poverty, child abuse, family violence, racism and alcoholism. It has been shared over 5,000 times before local, state, national, and international groups and conferences. It highlights his becoming a Christian through the help of two women in his life. This presentation has been featured internationally on radio and film through "Focus on the Family," "The 700 Club, "The Old Time Gospel Hour," "Beverly LaHaye Live," and "100 Huntley St." It has also been shared at Promise Keepers. At the Word of Life Conference Center in Florida for "The Breakfast Club" for Senior Citizens, Dr. Bartlette shared the program with Doug Oldham, "America's Beloved Gospel singer."
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   Dr. Bartlette's testimony has also been highlighted in two films, titled Believing for the Best in You and When Nobody Loves You, by Life Productions, Inc.
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   Prior to his travel ministry, Dr. Bartlette's professional career included over twenty years of working as a program director, administrator, direct-care supervisor, child-care worker, social worker and staff developer with troubled youth, minorities, families, and handicapped people. He is, by training, a social worker, a counselor, and an educator. He is listed in England's International Men of Achievement and Who's Who in the World.
   
   Having received further training in theology and church ministries in Minnesota, Dr. Bartlette served as House-Church pastor on a metropolitan church and as an associate pastor for the American Indian Evangelical Church. He is involved with the National Association for Native-American Children of Alcoholics, Christian Home Educators of Ohio, and Children's Harbor in Alabama.
   
   In 1988, he was made an Honorary Board Member of Teen Ranch in Michigan. He is past-chairman of a national advisory board for Keystone Academy, a Christian school for learning disabled children in Texas. A former board member of a large metropolitan Christian school, a past-president of the parent-teacher fellowship of a smaller Christian school, Dr. Bartlette currently serves as a patron of his children's Christian school. He is a founding member of The Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities. Dr. Bartlette is a former Sunday School teacher, Christian Education Chairman, and a Sunday School superintendent in an evangelical church.
   
   In 1978, Dr. Bartlette attended the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., and in 1982, he began speaking for the Association of Christian Schools International, He was also asked to keynote the "Special Education in Christian Schools Symposium" for 1983 in California. In 1985, Dr. Bartlette addressed the National Association of Homes for Children, the International Institute for Christian School Teachers at Grace Seminary in Indian, the Christian Home Educators Convention in Ohio, and the National Association for Christian Reformed Schools. He was also the keynote speaker for the Michigan Prayer Breakfast.
   
   In 1986, Dr. Bartlette gave the commencement address at the first graduation of Jimmy Sandy Memorial Indian School in Schefferville, Quebec. He has spoken at Pro-Life banquets for crisis pregnancy centers and is a speaker for the Institutes on Drug Addiction and Alcoholism. In 1986 the Altrusa Club and Mayor's office in Cincinnati, Ohio, proclaimed November 15 as "Don Bartlette Day." He is an honorary citizen of Arkansas and West Virginia. In 1987, Dr. Bartlette replaced Nancy Reagan at the Arizona Governor's Conference on Children.
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   In 1992, Dr. Bartlette spoke to the Federal Office of Substance Abuse Conference in Washington, D.C. He received an honorary diploma from the Chemawa Indian High School in Oregon. He was also honored by Oglala Sioux students at the American Horse School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In 1994, at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., Dr. Bartlette received the "Award for Individual Achievement" from the National Council for Communication Disorders, and organization representing 31 association dealing with speech and hearing-impaired problems.
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   Senator John Glenn of Ohio presented the award to Dr. Bartlette.
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   Selected as one of the "20 Most Interesting People" in Stark County, Ohio, for 1995, Dr. Bartlette was also nominated for the Marty Mann Award, presented to the outstanding speaker, on alcoholism issues, in America. A regular guest speaker for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Dr. Bartlette spoke at the Tom Landry Weekend in Williamsburg, VA. He also addressed the Native American Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Ohio Car Wash Association, "About-Face" the Canadian-American Association for Persons with Facial Differences, and North American Indian Missions throughout British Columbia.
   
   In 1996, Dr. Bartlette spoke to a convention in Guatemala for missionary teachers from all over Central and Latin America, Concerned Women for America Conference in Washington, D.C., and the Governor's Prayer Breakfast in Iowa. He is a recipient of the "turtle blanket" presented him by the American Indian Leadership Initiative in Denver on the occasion of his becoming enrolled in the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota. He was also selected as Outstanding Social Work Alumnus of the University of North Dakota. In 1997, Gov. Schafer of North Dakota proclaimed March 8 as "Don Bartlette Day."
   
   Having traveled for 30 years as a speaker, Dr. Bartlette is chronicling his experiences in a manuscript titled "No Autographs, Please."
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   "If you are looking for an uplifting and heart warming event for your students and staff, Dr. Don Bartlette is the perfect choice...Our students initiated not one or two, but three standing ovations to show their admiration and respect for this phenomenal man. As a building administrator for 18 years I know how crucial it is to select outstanding presenters and I rank Dr. Bartlette as one of the top presenters I have ever hosted."

2. 2. Focus on the Family Radio - Macaroni at Midnight

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   Published on: 3/13/2002   Last Visited: 11/24/2002

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   Dr. Don Bartlette shares his heart-rending testimony of growing up unwanted, ridiculed, unable to speak and physically deformed. (Part 2 of 2)
   
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   Don Bartlette is a full-time public speaker who travels extensively throughout the United States and Canada sharing several presentations that relate to his Christian testimony. He is, by training, a social worker, counselor and educator. Bartlette is a founding member of The Christian Council on Persons with Disabilities and a Native American activist.
   
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3. 3. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, mental retardation at NOFAS

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   Published on: 4/22/2006   Last Visited: 1/29/2008

   Don Bartlette, Ph.D. 2602 Ocelot Street N E North Canton, OH 44721 Phone: 330-497-1822 Fax: 330-499-0745 donbartlette@juno.com A Native American activist, Dr. Bartlette is himself fetal alcohol impaired; he speaks at conferences in the U.S. and Canada.