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  • Medical Cannabis 101

    By Andrew Kuebbing, California Cannabis Advocates Trying medical marijuana for your condition can be a daunting prospect—maybe you had a bad experience in the past, or maybe there’s just too many…

  • #ThisIsHowI Show What’s Possible

    By Brittany Déjean, AbleThrive We all want to see ourselves represented in media and society. AbleThrive’s #ThisIsHowI campaign is bringing visibility to people with disabilities and their families by shedding light on how…

  • How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Heals Children

    By Janis Gioia, ComfortingAnxiousChildren.com Looking to enhance your child’s therapies with something that can instantly calm, balance and center her?  Would you like to help your child develop: Would you like…

  • Trevair Snowden: Once Extreme, Always Extreme

    By David Block It’s 1997 on one of those perfect winter days when the slopes are calling. Hot shot snowboarder Trevor “Trevair” Snowden is poised to decimate the competition. He…

  • Crossing the Sierras…In a Wheelchair?

    By Bob “4-Wheel Bob” Coomber, Abilities Expo Ambassador I woke in a tent on September 17, 2014, anxious to begin what was to have been an epic journey. Though I’ve…

  • Cure Medical Pushes to End Paralysis

    By Lisa Wells, Cure Medical Cure Medical offers two areas of support to the disability community, with the intermittent catheters they manufacture, and also through the neurological research programs that…

  • 7-Week-Old Baby Comes Out of the Silence

    Any obstetrician, midwife or doula will encourage expectant parents to talk to their unborn child. He or she can hear for most of the latter half of the pregnancy and…

  • Decimating Barriers at Abilities Expo

    By Marisa Boni The silent determination, the intense focus, the steady climb, one foot in front of the other; slowly reaching the top. Then the hum of conversation is disrupted…

  • Calming the Tremors of Parkinson’s Disease

    By Jennifer French, Neurotech Network Being handed a card of a progressive neurological condition changes your perspective. Some neurological conditions can hit like a brick wall while others creep into…

  • Design Matters: Skinny Jeans Send Woman to Hospital

    By Stephanie Alves, ABL Denim I kid you not. Restricted circulation is no joke! Read it for yourself. People of all abilities may now recognize that adaptive clothing is not only more…