Join us at #fun4thedisabled as we share PWR! Moves Seated, as a part of the #FitnesswithFriends series! This series is a set of videos designed to be accessible to those with disabilities, and make it easier to get moving! All Fitness with Friends videos have both an...
Fitness with Friends: PWR! Standing Moves
Join us at #fun4thedisabled as we share PWR! Moves Standing, as a part of the #FitnesswithFriends series! This series is a set of videos designed to be accessible to those with disabilities, and make it easier to get moving! All Fitness with Friends videos have both...
Fitness with Friends: Partner Exercise
Join us at #fun4thedisabled as we share partner exercises, as a part of the #FitnesswithFriends series! This series is a set of videos designed to be accessible to those with disabilities, and make it easier to get moving! All Fitness with Friends videos have both an...
Fitness with Friends: Big 7
Join us at #fun4thedisabled as we share our first video in the #FitnesswithFriends series! This series is a set of videos designed to be accessible to those with disabilities, and make it easier to get moving! All Fitness with Friends videos have both an ASL...
Destigmatizing Mental Health Part 5: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
-[Female voiceover] Did you know that about 4-6% of the U.S. population has ADHD? Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, better known as ADHD, is a medical condition that affects a person’s ability to focus, pay attention, or manage their behavior. The condition is...
Destigmatizing Mental Health Part 4: Dyslexia
Welcome to the first episode of Hidden Heroes, a series about celebrating the strengths of learning disabilities and mental illness. In today's video, we are exploring the experiences of people with dyslexia as well as some of the hidden advantages that we may not see...
Destigmatizing Mental Health Part 3: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
-[Vanessa] Hello! This is Vanessa Harris with Fun4TheDisabled.com. Welcome to Destigmatizing Mental Health, our series in which we explore the strengths that people bring to the table who have varying mental health disorders. We believe that there needs to be more...
Destigmatizing Mental Health Part 1: Bipolar Disorder
This video addresses the media’s flawed depiction of people with Bipolar Disorder. Depictions of mental illness in general have had a problematic history, from romanticizing disorders such as depression to wildly inaccurate depictions of schizophrenia.
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...
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...
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...
How to Get Cultured During the Current Quarantine
NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT Last night I went to see a play. I had the best seats in the house, and I enjoyed some delicious fried shrimp and KoolAde which I served myself 5 minutes before the play started. The play? Teenage Dick, a re-engineering of William...