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Making Dreams Come True One Letter at a Time
By Chris Rohan, Disabled Dealer Magazine One Letter at a Time is the life long story of famed marathoner and triathlete, Rick Hoyt, who together with his equally famous father, Dick Hoyt, makes up the world-renowned duo known as Team Hoyt. The story is written by both father and son with the help of writer Todd Civin.…
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A Random Act of Kindness Changes a Family’s Life ForeverAs Alexzander Prado’s Wish to Walk is Granted at Abilities Expo
That Sunday will live in the hearts and minds of everyone whose tears of joy followed 5-year-old Alexzander Prado’s amazing feat at the Southern California Abilities Expo (www.abilities.com) in the Anaheim Convention Center. This was the day that a triumphant little boy overcame his congenital cerebral palsy to walk hands-free for the very first time.…
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Being the Change
By Ana Calvo, No Barriers and Abilities Expo Ambassador If someone said five years ago I would be host and co-producer of a TV show, I would have thought they were out of their mind. It all started in the summer of 2012 when Houston Community College (HCC) did a call-out to anyone who wanted…
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Born An Angel by an Angel
By Chris Rohan, Disabled Dealer Magazine Briley Rossiter is 11 years old, and like other girls her age she likes hanging out with her friends, having sleepovers, going to movies and shopping. But Briley is not your typical 11-year-old. She has experienced a lifetime of ups and downs, joy and sadness, disappointments and happiness, and…
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Director Ben Lewin Explores Disability, Love and Sexuality in The Sessions
By Jennifer and Jeff D. Gorman, The Mobility Resource and BraunAbility Wheelchair Vans. Ben Lewin, director of Fox Searchlight’s new film, The Sessions, spoke with fellow polio survivor Jennifer Gorman of The Mobility Resource about his cinematic tale of another polio survivor, Mark O’Brien. The California poet, who died in 1999, has already been the subject of one Oscar-winning film,…
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A Look at the Extraordinary Life of Bryan Anderson
By David Block, Disabled Dealer Magazine Thousands of people long to be published authors and actors, but in most cases their dreams never come true. However, that was not the case with Bryan Anderson, who lost both legs and his left hand in 2005, while serving in Iraq. The acting parts and book deals fell…
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Making Dreams Come True One Letter at a Time
By Chris Rohan, Disabled Dealer Magazine One Letter at a Time is the life long story of famed marathoner and triathlete, Rick Hoyt, who together with his equally famous father, Dick Hoyt, makes up the world-renowned duo known as Team Hoyt. The story is written by both father and son with the help of writer Todd…
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Dynamic Duo Wins Sports Illustrated Kids SportsKid of the Year
By Chris Rohan, Disabled Dealer Magazine I first saw brothers Conner Green and Cayden Long on Good Morning America and was immediately drawn to them. Team Long Brothers was established the summer of 2011 by Conner, a very determined 7-year-old. Conner’s little brother, 5-year-old Cayden, was diagnosed with Spastic Cerebral Palsy. Cayden can’t walk or speak. Conner had always…
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My Gimpy Life Gets Funding for Season Two
Watch My Gimpy Life Season One here Teal Sherer, an actress with a disability who was tired of waiting on Hollywood roles, created one for herself last summer when My Gimpy Life premiered to critical acclaim on YouTube. And thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, the award-winning comedic web series will return for Season Two. “People with disabilities are rarely…
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Handicap This!
It all started in the spring of 2001 when Tim Wambach stopped by a school district office on a whim. He put in an application to be a substitute teacher and that’s when the wheel of fate began to roll. Soon, he found himself face-to-face with a 12 year-old kid named Mike Berkson, a warm,…
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The Making of Not Home
By Narcel Reedus, Filmmaker Not Home, a documentary about kids living in nursing facilities, is a 99-minute feature that focuses on four interweaving stories. There’s Mathew, Qualeigh, Essie Evans and Nola Sayne—a young adult, a child and two parents whose separate lives intersect through the institutionalization of children with a developmental disability. In between each…
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New Book from Paralympic Athlete and Bionic Woman
Jennifer French, a quadriplegic and competitive sailing athlete who recently medaled at the 2012 Paralympics Games in London, has release her new book, On My Feet Again: My Journey Out of the Wheelchair Using Neurotechnology. On My Feet Again is the inspiring and intellectually stimulating story of how a determined and resourceful young woman overcame many…