Listen to this Article Gestures Ltd. Is Transforming the Way the Visually Impaired Access the Internet As Eyar Shtabinski, founder and CEO of Gestures Ltd., was researching the market for visually impaired people, he decided to investigate the area of smartphone usage. He wanted to see how with the help of some technological advancements […]
Listen to this Article My goal in life is to share my story and life with Jimmy in the hope that what people see or read will help them through whatever may be going on in their world, and to love and trust that anything is possible! Meet Niki I was born in Perth, Western
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Listen to this Article Danielle Webb on Dwarfism: “Accept yourself. Embrace you.” You can surround yourself with the best people, the most loving support, but if you don’t accept yourself, then truthfully you’re not going to feel accepted where you are. The best advice I can give is to embrace it. Embrace you. “I am
Listen to this Article “My story starts back in high school when I volunteered at an MDA Summer Camp. At this camp, I spent a full week assigned to a “camper” with Muscular Dystrophy caring for and creating memories in a safe space with all of the accommodations necessary to swim, eat, dance (prom), and
Listen to this Article Howard Rosenblum leads a life of advocacy Written by St. Cloud State University students: Tricia B. Simon and Jaime L. Jensen Howard Rosenblum is a man who has so seamlessly comingled his personal and professional missions of advocacy for the deaf community that he plans his vacations around opportunities to travel
Listen to this Article Alan T. Brown: A Vacation in the Caribbean Changed His Life Forever We need to make sure that when individuals with a disability want to travel, they do not have to go through so many hurdles just for a trip that somebody else would normally take. It would
Listen to this Article Drs. Kathryn Johnson and Amy Hebert Knopf: A story of thankfulness A theme of the collaborative work of Drs. Kathryn Johnson and Amy Hebert Knopf is “thankfulness.” One of the most thankful aspects of their work was finding each other in 2013 at a conference in St. Paul. Though their life
Listen to this Article Interview with Charlie Hammerman :The Disability Opportunity Fund and the world’s first fully accessible hotel – The Schoolhouse Hotel What influenced your decision to start the Disability Opportunity Fund? From our perspective, what the disability market needed for growth in 2005/2006 was finance and capital to address the public policy
Listen to this Article Jake Steinman’s TravelAbility highlights the importance of Accessible Travel Today, more than ever, the needs of people with disabilities are taking center stage in discussions at home, in communities and boardrooms. It is becoming more evident that someone with a disability should be able to enjoy the world in every capacity
Listen to this Article Horror actress, disabled plus size model, and body positivity activist Lipedema diagnosis. Thank you kindly for your donation towards my surgery Please click here Background I am a gay, disabled, plus size indigenous and Latinx model, and actress. I got into horror at an early age because my family were