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Breaking the Stigma: Elite Athletes Open Up About Mental Health
This guest post was written by Sophia Jean When Gymnastics star and Olympic champion Simone Biles arrived at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, everyone expected her to sweep through the competitions and deliver breathtaking performances. However, the pressure and stress that...
Hello Goodbye Dog
Purchase a hard copy of Hello Goodbye Dog here: https://www.amazon.com/Hello-Goodbye-Dog-Maria-Gianferrari/dp/1626721777 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv99iQ4v_Ao >> Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Fun for the Disabled Presents Children’s Books for the...
The Prominent Occupation of the Sightless in China
By Hongji Feng CHONGQING, CHINA In the past twenty years of my life, I have never walked into a blind massage parlor - people from countries like the United States probably have never heard of it. A massage given by blind therapists is an actual thing in China, and a...
Top 10 Tips to Avoid Housing Discrimination
[TRANSCRIPT with visual descriptions: Text on screen reads: Accommodate Me or Litigate Me Part 2: Housing Discrimination. Vanessa A. Harris, P.E. and Professor Allison K. Bethel, Esq. Fun4thedisabled.com | UIC John Marshall Law School Fair Housing Clinic. Vanessa...
Accommodate Me or Litigate Me Part 1 -Housing Discrimination and COVID-19
[Transcript with visual descriptions: Fun 4 the Disabled logo appears on the screen. On-screen text reads: For a full transcript of this video and more like it, check out fun4thedisabled.com. Vanessa Harris appears on screen, joined by Allison Bethel on a separate...
Judith Heumann and Vanessa Harris-Icon to Icon
> Hi. This is Vanessa Harris with Fun4theDisabled.com. Today, I’m having a conversation with Miss Judith Heumann -- > Hello. >> -- a human rights activist and a true icon. Hi, Judy. >> Hi. So are you, icon to icon. How are you? >> Okay. Judy is...
Black Entertainers with Disabilities
Name Disability Occupation Alice Beard dyslexia author Alicia Keys depression pianist, singer-songwriter Andrae Crouch dyslexia singer Barbara Jordan multiple sclerosis lawyer, educator, politician, civil rights leader Blind Tom Wiggins blind music prodigy, pianist,...
The View From My Chair by Frank Petrie
It is hard to imagine being in other people’s shoes, but it is even harder to imagine being in someone else’s chair. For Frank Petrie, the most common phrase he hears from non-wheelchair users is “I can only imagine.” This expression was the inspiration for “The View...
Five Tips for Remaining Balanced During the Pandemic
This is Vanessa Harris, with fun4thedisabled.com. Today, my friend Reveca Torres, who is a photographer, artist and filmmaker and power wheelchair user and founder of Backbones, which is an organization that helps people with spinal cord injury or disease, is my...
Children’s Books4theDisabled Presents the Do-Over Day
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Chicago Lighthouse-Serving A Variety of Disabilities
#Fun4theDisabled explores the history of the Chicago Lighthouse and details their services for the visually impaired and beyond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEEp8GMrc-M Transcript with visual descriptions: [Uplifting music plays throughout the video.] Text...
Experiencing New Lives When You Are Disabled During a Pandemic
Being a Deaf individual during the coronavirus pandemic has been scary. Not only has access to critical information, including press conferences at the federal, state and local levels, been limited, my wife and I worry about communication access at the hospital when...