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Getting Your Buddy…or Betty…or Bowser Insured
By Susan Doktor No matter what you call your service animal, you can count on one thing: he (or she) is going to come running when you do. There are over half a million service dogs in the US providing critical assistance to disabled people. Opening cabinet doors, soothing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, pulling wheelchairs…
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Join The Fight To Make Lyft Serve People With Disabilities
By Alex Elegudin Uber and Lyft are hugely popular—but unfortunately there are some who are being left behind by the services. Many wheelchair users and disabled people say discrimination from ride-hailing services is the norm. Lyft refuses to provide services to people who use wheelchairs and motorized scooters. Numerous class-action lawsuits have been filed demanding…
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Creating Accessible Remote Education
By Adrian Johansen All students have a right to quality education, regardless of the challenges they face in their young lives. Many teachers and parents do what they can—often without government support—to make certain that kids are empowered to learn and follow their educational curiosities or ambitions. Unfortunately, there will be times that the events…
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Today’s Care and Tomorrow’s Cure at the 2021 Reeve Summit
By Angela Cantillon, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is thrilled to present the 2nd annual Reeve Summit 2021: Where Care, Cure and Community Connect on April 27-29, 2021. This three-day virtual summit will bring together hundreds of health professionals, advocates, community members and caregivers to brainstorm a future for people with disabilities defined by access, inclusion and innovation. Reeve…
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Access Abilities Virtual Experience Online Now
The latest Abilities Virtual Experience is still going on! You will be able to access more than 80 exhibitors with a ton of products and services to enhance your independence until May 2nd. Useful Disability-Focused Content is On-Demand Now Thousands from the disability community have joined us online for the Abilities Virtual Experience from the…
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The One-Handed Lady Golfer Empowers Community through Golf
Meet Gianna Rojas of Oak Ridge, New Jersey, known globally as the “One Handed Lady Golfer.” Yes, you read that right, Gianna was born with no fingers on her left hand, although you would never know it after 30 seconds of meeting her. But there is much more than meets the eye. Ten years ago,…
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Autism Parenting Summit is Open for Free Registration
By Dian Pascua, Autism Parenting Magazine Hosted by the leading international autism publication, Autism Parenting Magazine, the inaugural event will be an exciting virtual experience where you can learn how to help your child thrive. Autism Parenting Summit on April 20th and 21st aims to help autism caregivers develop their parenting skills and discover new techniques and approaches…
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How to Strengthen Your Immune System During a Pandemic
By Tracy Williams The COVID-19 pandemic has been an alarming time because, as a disabled person, even if you personally follow all precautions you may still get the virus from family members or caregivers who visit you in the home to help you accomplish your activities of daily living on a daily basis. Some folks…
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How We Can Protect Our Food Supply
By Tracy Williams Everyone, whether they are disabled or not, is concerned for the future of the environment. Preventing food waste is a way to keep the environment safe and healthy for future generations. When we work together to eliminate food waste, we take a giant step towards stopping hunger. According to Feeding America, in 2020,…
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How to a Handle Emergencies with a Disability (and a Pandemic and a Polar Vortex)
By Vanessa Harris, Abilities Expo Ambassador and Fun4TheDisabled I prepared this in honor of two of my close friends in Texas during a power outage/water shortage/pipe freeze/food shortage/pandemic. As if one of those things were not enough! For all of you who are trying to battle these conditions, and for those of you who have loved…
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These 5 Exercises Will Help Your Child Learn to Write
By Amanda Dudley The educational trend of 2020 and beyond is home-schooling or remote-learning. Regardless of how you choose to distinguish the two tasks, the onus is now more than ever upon parents and caregivers to deliver critical facets of their charge’s education. Writing comes in many shapes, sizes, scrawls and scribbles. While this article…
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How Physical Disabilities and Mental Health Intersect
By Adrian Johansen If life during a pandemic has taught us anything, it’s how precious and fragile health truly is. But when you are living with a disability, this is a lesson you didn’t need COVID-19 to teach you. The reality is that whether the condition is an injury or a physical or mental illness,…