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Knowing When to Switch Doctors for Your Child
By Amanda Winstead When you have a child with a disability or complex medical condition, good support makes all of the difference. You need to be there for your kids, listen to their concerns, and find the medical professionals that can help them to thrive and live their best life. A big part of caring…
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Torsten Gross Found His Level Playing Field on the Racetrack
By Torsten Gross, Just Hands Racing Foundation For those of us who are in wheelchairs, finding a sport in which we can compete against able-bodied people is almost impossible. Thus, when I became a C6 quadriplegic in 1994, my life as a quintessential American male, obsessed with lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and anything else competitive, became limited…
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Tap Dancing is Hands-Down Fun for Everyone
By Laura Muha When former Radio City Rockette Mary Six Rupert was 9 months old, she rolled off her father’s lap and wound up in a body cast with a broken leg. Her mother, Nita Braun, decided Rupert’s legs needed strengthening, so once Rupert recovered, Braun signed the toddler up for dance lessons—something that led…
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More Than Fundraising: Connecting Communities with Help Hope Live
By Emily Progin, Help Hope Live On May 7, Help Hope Live will once again showcase hope in motion at Abilities Expo New York Metro as we present a customized Freedom Concepts adaptive bike to three-year-old Easton Clark and his family. Easton’s journey with Help Hope Live proves that trusted medical fundraising can go so much further than financial support, giving communities…
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Empowering Kids with Disabilities Through Baking
By Jordan River, JB Cookie Cutters As a parent or caregiver of a child with a disability, finding activities that are both enjoyable and beneficial for their development can be a challenge. However, baking is a great way to engage your child’s senses, improve their fine motor skills and boost their self-esteem. In this blog post,…
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Goal Setting for Healthy Living with a Disability
By Tracy Williams, Tracy’s Plate Everyone deserves to live their own version of a healthy lifestyle. It does not matter if you have a disability or not. Registered dietitians and other healthcare professionals should also realize that disabled clients have their own picture of success towards a healthier adaptive lifestyle. Success looks different for each individual,…
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How to Cope with Epilepsy to Live the Life you Deserve
By Stacey Chillemi, Author and Speaker Most people live in misery and are frustrated because they don’t think they can improve. No one ever helped or gave them the help they needed to cope with their condition. Not their parents, their schools or the media… They are stumbling in the dark without a map, a compass…
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Disabled Employees: Do you Know Your Workplace Rights?
By Jonathan Delshad, Law Offices of Jonathan J. Delshad, PC, JD/MBA The Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) in California is a law that protects employees from discrimination based on their disability. Under FEHA, employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities and engage in an interactive process to determine what accommodations are necessary. In…
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Child with Cerebral Palsy to get Free Adaptive Bike from Help Hope Live on Friday, March 10 at 10:45 am at Abilities Expo LA
By Sonny Mullen, Help Hope Live Day 1 of the Abilities Expo Los Angeles will kick off at 10:45 a.m. on Friday, March 10, at the LA Convention Center with a surprise giveaway. A 4-year-old boy from Huntington Beach who is living with cerebral palsy will receive the gift of his lifetime: an adaptive bike custom-built…
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BetterCaths and Rep. Josh Turek Work to Remove Harmful Chemicals from Catheters
By BetterCaths.com After five years of advocating for catheter user health education on their risk for bladder cancer, the BetterCaths Health Equity Coalition has come together to drive legislation to protect people with disabilities from the harmful phthalate chemical DEHP that is present in some urinary catheters. Iowa State Representative Josh Turek (D-Iowa) has introduced the Better Caths for…
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Retirement – Are you ready? Your service dog is.
By Kristin Hartness, Canines for Disabled Kids & Service Dog Partner Retirement—the point where a person stops employment completely. Well, that sounds very official, and it should as it came directly from the Wikipedia. For a service dog this statement may or may not be true. Retiring My First Service Dog Laddie, my first service…
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Disability Themes Run Strong in Anime and Manga
By Tony Stephens, Hyper-Urban Arts There is power in weakness. “My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Power…weakness…how are they linked in the arena of anime and manga? This is the core, the heart, of my various projects. My projects center around popular culture and disabilities; in ways which I hope entertain, educate and, most of…