#Fun4thedisabled highlights a variety of applications that allow people to access technology without using their hands, including Eyeflite and Eyegaze. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbpXMaJw1dA CLICK ON THE CC ON THE SNIPPET FOR CLOSED CAPTIONING!! IF IT IS...
#Fun4thedisabled speaks with instructors at Accessible Yoga about how they have successfully adapted yoga to be accessible for those with disabilities. Founder Jivana Heyman also discusses how the discipline of yoga can benefit people of all ages and abilities, as...
#Fun4thedisabled’s Vanessa Harris talks to Joseph Isaac Powell Main about his life as a para dancer. https://youtu.be/ToKxPP4Fsv4 CLICK ON THE CC ON THE SNIPPET FOR CLOSED CAPTIONING!!! IF IT IS UNDERLINED IN RED, YOU WILL SEE THE CLOSED CAPTIONING. Joseph: I hadn’t...
The following blog was written by Christine Kerr, a disabled blogger who lives in Australia. Her blog is about a fascinating mutual friend, Reveca Torres, an artist and disability activist who lives in the USA. This is what Christine has to say: When you think of...
The first Earth Day was in 1970 and I was in high school. We did a team project which was a photo essay of the waste dumps in the Chicagoland area set to music by Stephen Stills. That project inspired me to follow my dream of trying to save the world so I decided to...
#Fun4thedisabled’s Vanessa Harris interviews Sara Lawrence-Sucato and Tanya Ewell of Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels about their integrated dance organization, and how they not only perform dance, but run a school to train dancers as well. https://youtu.be/wG9fyhSIDS8 “ I...
Ali May posts on hiking in the Torres del Paine, and the collective effort for Alvario Silberstein to hike the parks terrain in a wheelchair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xqu7XbS-R8 This guest post is by Ali May, world-renowned journalist and broadcaster. When I...
#Fun4thedisabled interviews Ghanian author and activist Farida Bedwei about her comic series KARMZAH!, and how her heroine represents her life as an African and as someone with cerebral palsy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewVMLvwfEyI&t=796s CLICK ON THE CC ON...
Happy Holidays! Read this guest post by Bob Vogel about Holiday gift Ideas for Wheelchair Users! Hope you enjoy it! The holiday gift season is in full swing, and while I greatlyenjoy finding just the right presents for friends and family, I tend to be a last-minute...
Hi! This guest post by Sha-Myra is a fantastic treatise on how the film Edward Scissorhands starring Johnny Depp showed how able-bodied people were perceived to have treated the disabled. Edward Scissorhands is a classic film. Released December 7, 1990 The film...
#Fun4the Disabled’s Vanessa Harris visits Anna Kunz’ art show, where they discuss the importance of making events and art accessible to all. You're about to watch a video about an amazing mixed media artist, Anna Kunz who had her 15th exhibit in Chicago this past...
#Fun4the Disabled’s Vanessa Harris talks with Mike Ervin, creator of the blog “Smartass Cripple,” about his decision to start a blog and where the process of doing so has taken him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzkqqTBKPg&t Fun: Hi! This is Vanessa Harris...