AFA May 2026

Written By Jennifer Mooradian, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Sport Management, Brock University Dawn Trussell, Professor of Sport Management & Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence, Brock University Disclosure statement Jennifer Mooradian receives funding from Special Olympics Canada. Dawn Trussell receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research […]

By Maria Reppas | iowacapitaldispatch Maria Reppas is a freelance writer who lived in Iowa from 1978 to 1999. She lives with her husband and son on the East Coast. Visit her website at www.mariareppas.com I have a developmental disability, ADHD, but no one would ever know unless I share that

Jackie Silver For Jackie Silver, wellness does not begin with a plan. It begins with a question: what is actually possible today? As a registered dietitian and the founder of Accessible Wellness, Silver has built her work around the realities many people quietly navigate every day, including pain, fatigue, executive dysfunction,

Amanda Norman Blog: Her Chronic Wellness Amanda shares her lived experience through her blog Her Chronic Wellness, navigating life with the rare neuromuscular condition Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 2L/R12, which causes progressive muscle weakness in her arms, hips, pelvis, and legs. With no known cure, she approaches her journey with honesty,

Jessica Allen When Nicole L’Etoile prepared to lead a session at a national accessibility conference in Denver in November 2025, the plan seemed simple. L’Etoile would give participants a number to log in to the platform. As she imagined handing out numbered slips of paper, she paused. “It’s an accessibility conference,”

For many people, migraines are still misunderstood as simply severe headaches. For Kat Curnow, owner of the clothing line Chronically Sarcastic, they are a disabling, unpredictable condition that reshapes every part of daily life. Her experience illustrates the reality of migraine disease as a dynamic disability, one that changes in severity,

By Christine E. Staple Ebanks, The Special Needs Mama Bear When my son Nathan, who lives with cerebral palsy, was about seven years old, I remember sitting with a friend, overwhelmed and exhausted, and saying something that felt true in that moment: “I have no support. There’s nobody I can call