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By Kristina Rhoades, Abilities Expo Ambassador Last summer, audiences were mesmerized as the Sundance Channel debuted a daring new series about four dynamic women who live in L.A. The Push Girls are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
