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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…
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…
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…
Stephanie Thomas’ passion as well as her life’s work is accessible fashion. Her company, Cur8Able, is a disability fashion lifestyle platform featuring celebrities and influencers with disabilities who share their lives…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Jillian Day Embarking on a digital nomad lifestyle presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities, especially when navigating it with a disability. The freedom of working remotely is…
By Mark Potter, Civil Rights Attorney When I started litigating disability access cases in 1996, I figured I would need to move on to another area of law by the…
By Greg Smith, Sr., The Strength Coach iDiversicons, the world’s first diverse emoji keyboard has released new “Disability Pride Emoji” in celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities…
