It has been a couple decades since an automobile accident on a cold winter's night left me with a quadriplegia diagnosis and a lifetime supply of power wheelchairs. I sustained a spinal cord injury ...
Disability is human. It is quite common. Yet it also makes many of us uncomfortable. You might be looking forward to meeting a new colleague. And then you notice a visible disability, and somehow ...
More than one billion people, or 15 per cent of the world’s entire population, live with some kind of disability. Despite forming such a large part of our societies, people with disabilities continue ...
Kim Brooks and her daughter, Zoe, spent months searching for college options but didn’t receive college counseling from the program that’s supposed to support students with disabilities. Credit: ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A local boxing gym is making a big difference in the lives of kids and adults with disabilities — by boosting confidence and creating a safe space while training. In August 2024, ...
Thu Buu Vien didn’t know just what to do. Her 2-year-old son Hien had just been diagnosed with autism, global developmental delay and a seizure disorder. She had questions but no answers, stacks of ...