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Stories</category><description>Discover how one woman&#39;s relationship with ChatGPT revealed AI as a mirror reflecting our own values, not a manipulative spin doctor</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/valentine.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/valentine.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:19:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Software Collapse: Navigating Severe Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>FND patient shares five-year journey from paralysis to advocacy, exposing medical gaps in treating neurological conditions invisible on scans</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/fnd.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/fnd.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:49:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Nicole LeBlanc and the Radical Practice of Dignity</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Disability policy consultant Nicole LeBlanc advocates for person-centered services, economic justice, and the dignity of risk for disabled workers and community members</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/nicole-leblanc.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/nicole-leblanc.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:27:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Unmarried by Law: The Disability Marriage Penalty and Its Civil Rights Implications</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Disabled adults must remain unmarried to keep SSI benefits, creating a systemic civil rights violation that contradicts marriage equality and perpetuates poverty</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/unmarried.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/unmarried.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:04:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Colombia&#39;s Shifting Views on Disability: Barriers to Inclusion</title><category>Blogs - 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Stories</category><description>Mother&#39;s fight for autistic daughter&#39;s education reveals systemic failures, conflicts of interest, and retaliation in special education services</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/my-life.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/my-life.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:04:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>From Chalk to Tech: A Teacher&#39;s View on Education Reform</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>A veteran educator explores how schools must blend proven teaching methods with modern technology to effectively serve all learners, including disabled students</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/chalk.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/chalk.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 15:33:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Planning for the Future: Aging, Family, and Your Disabled Adult Child</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>The importance of keeping wills, powers of attorney, and estate documents if you have a disabled member of the family who needs assistance in all aspects of care</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/future-plans.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/future-plans.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:11:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>My Journey in Services for People with Multiple Disabilities</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>This post is a short description of my daughter&#39;s journey in special education and adult services through my observation of her. 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Cleaver writes on the topic of the types of sandwiches in the Sandwich Generation population</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/dagwood-sandwich.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/dagwood-sandwich.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:34:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Book Review: Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother&#39;s Will to Survive</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Tsara Shelton reviews the book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother&#39;s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/maid-book.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/maid-book.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2023 13:58:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Equality Amendments and Disabled Political Representation</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>How New York&#39;s proposed equality amendments to the state constitution could address the underrepresentation of people with disabilities in US elected office</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/equality-amendments.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/equality-amendments.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 11:09:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>A Different Way to See - Part 3</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Choosing the best school environment for a child who is visually impaired takes research, observation, evaluation, and collaboration</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/schooling.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/schooling.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 09:10:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>A Different Way to See - Part 2</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Learning braille is important as it promotes literacy, develops writing skills, increases knowledge and develops independence. 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Cleaver writes on school violence, shootings, and the changes in schooling from the past to the present</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/school-violence.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/school-violence.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:17:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Breaking Barriers: Overcoming Challenges of Disability and Digital Inclusion in Nepal</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Lack of accessibility features in digital devices and websites, inadequate digital literacy, and limited access to the internet are some of the significant barriers to digital inclusion in Nepal</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/nepal.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/nepal.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:02:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>When Your Child is Disabled - Advice from a Wise Woman I Wish I Had Followed</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Sometimes, things can&#39;t be fixed, and we have to give children and families information and instructions on how to live to the fullest with a disability</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/disability-advice.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/disability-advice.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:03:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Looking Back At Christmas Through Their Eyes</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Article by Kathleen M. Cleaver about her and her family at Christmas past and present</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/christmas-past.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/christmas-past.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:56:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Stop The Threat - Stop The Stigma: A Police Officer&#39;s Mental Health</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Adam A. Meyers, a Wisconsin Police Officer for 21 years, writes regarding the stigma often attached to mental illness and traumatic experiences</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/stop-the-stigma.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/stop-the-stigma.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2023 15:57:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Seven Virtues of a Healthy Democracy</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>The Seven Democratic Virtues: What You Can Do to Overcome Tribalism and Save Our Democracy outlines how the average citizen can defend democracy in the U.S.</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/virtues.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/virtues.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 10:47:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Disability: We Have Superpowers Too</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>What about the children and adults with disabilities that don&#39;t have success stories? They have superpowers, too!</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/superpowers.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/superpowers.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 11:02:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Who Am I? What Should I Call Myself?</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>I am making this choice of calling myself differently abled, and I am not just saying this verbally but making sure my thoughts, actions, and emotions also reflect it</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/question.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/question.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:59:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>How People Who Are Disabled Can Fix Us</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Kathleen M. Cleaver writes regarding the current state of turmoil in the world today and how disabled people may be able to teach us to fix ourselves</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/fix.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/fix.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 13:27:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>A Blue Rose in a Bouquet of Flowers</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Because there are so few blue roses, we don&#39;t know much about them. We only know that they have to be tended to more carefully and loved more</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/blue-rose.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/blue-rose.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2022 11:48:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Becoming Eighteen: One Girl&#39;s Apprehensions and Observations</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>17-year-old Meagan Langtree pens her thoughts on the trials and tribulations of transitioning to adulthood</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/maturing.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/maturing.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:40:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>What People Say When You Have a Disabled Child - And Maybe What They Should Have Said</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>I have three daughters; two are normal and one disabled. Most comments about my normal daughters are generic in nature, the most positive being that they were pretty, smart, and compassionate. The worst being I was spoiling them</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sensitive-supportive.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sensitive-supportive.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:40:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>We Laugh So We Don&#39;t Cry: Caring for a Disabled Family Member</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>When you are disabled or care for a disabled person you often have friends who you can share stories with that others don&#39;t find interesting or humorous. These are the friends who laugh with us so we don&#39;t cry</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/laugh-cry.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/laugh-cry.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:33:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Inclusion: It Works Both Ways</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Kathleen M. Cleaver writes on the various forms of inclusion both at home and in the classroom</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/inclusion-kmc.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/inclusion-kmc.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:26:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Banging on the Door of Banks: An Experience of a Visually Disabled Person</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Masoom Reza, a final year law student at Jamia Millia Islamia, writes on his experience as a visually disabled person trying to open a bank account</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/blind-banks.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/blind-banks.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 10:03:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Dreams for Our Daughter</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>The dream of independence for a child with a disability may look much different than a dream independence for a normal child - it often requires adaptations and modifications</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/dream.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/dream.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 17:15:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Living with a Sibling and Her disABILITY</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Kathleen M. Cleaver writes on the positive and negative effects that a sibling with a disability has on a family and the siblings themselves</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sibling-disability.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sibling-disability.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 12:08:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>How the Politicization of Covid 19 Affects People with Disabilities</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Article by Kathleen M. Cleaver regarding Covid-19 effects on health and the disability community</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/politicization.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/politicization.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 13:47:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Hidden Grief Part 2: Grandparents</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>This is the second part of Hidden Grief by Kathleen M. Cleaver, the parent of Tricia who has multiple disabilities caused by hypoxia during the birth process</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/hidden-grief-2.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/hidden-grief-2.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 10:29:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Hidden Grief Part 1</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Article by Kathleen M. Cleaver, the parent of Tricia who has multiple disabilities caused by hypoxia during the birth process</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/hidden-grief.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/hidden-grief.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:37:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>What 2020 Taught Me About Disability in the UK</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Paul Dodenhoff reports on how the current COVID-19 global pandemic has further highlighted people with disabilities are still actively discriminated against</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/disability-2020.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/disability-2020.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 07:19:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>I Got More Help at The Cinema Than the Optician</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Emma and Alan share their experiences of visiting their opticians in the UK and believe their cinema provides more support for people with sight loss.</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/optician-assistance.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/optician-assistance.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:55:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Our Children Are Worth It</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Should one consider the life of a person with a disability less valuable than the life of a person without a disability</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/valuable.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/valuable.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:46:45 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Last of the Seven Summits: Making History for Hemophilia!</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Mountaineer Chris Bombardier is set to scale the Last of the Seven Summits, Mt. Vinson, becoming the first person with hemophilia to climb all Seven Summits</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/mt-vinson.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/mt-vinson.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:05:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Chef With Disabilities Uses Stand-Up Wheelchair</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Vocational Rehabilitation story of a chef who was able to return to his cooking career with the help of assistive technology</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/chef.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/chef.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:02:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Amputee Model Breaking Barriers in Fashion and Shattering Stigma of Disability</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Amputee model Shaholly Ayers is breaking beauty barriers and is currently featured in the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale catalog</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/shaholly-ayers.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/shaholly-ayers.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:08:12 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Big Dreams, Great Job at Minnesota Best Buy for Man with Cerebral Palsy</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Mongolia native finds Best Buy job with help from ProAct, leads smartphone app session for disability leaders, selected as national conference panelist</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/best-buy.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/best-buy.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:22:08 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Cystic Fibrosis: Caroline Is In Control</title><category>Cystic Fibrosis</category><description>LMU student Caroline Schambeck has Cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease, but she does not let her illness dominate her life</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/health/respiratory/cystic-fibrosis/caroline.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/health/respiratory/cystic-fibrosis/caroline.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:20:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>A View from Ahead: Realities and Possibilities Post Injury</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>A paper by a C5-C6 quadriplegic looking at life with disabilities after a diving accident</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/view-from-ahead.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/view-from-ahead.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:16:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Airman&#39;s Battle With Stage II Non-seminoma Testicular Cancer</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>An airman&#39;s candid fight against stage II testicular cancer: diagnosis, brutal chemo, and a decade of hard-won positivity</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/tc.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/tc.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:21:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>When I Auditioned for &#39;America&#39;s Next Top Model&#39;</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Article about my personal experiences with Treacher Collins Syndrome - a craniofacial disability</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/audition.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/audition.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:05:22 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>When You Are Scared or No Longer Care - Mental Illness and Violence</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Thomas C. Weiss writes on the topic of mental illness and violence, and includes his own personal experiences</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/scared.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/scared.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 06:43:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>How Much of Life is in a Man&#39;s Hands?</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>The loss of your hands can severely affect independence, drastically alter confidence, daily activities, and can trigger emotions of guilt</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/hands.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/hands.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:41:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Alcoholism: The Loss of a Friend to Alcohol</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Thomas C. Weiss writes on the loss of a friend due to alcoholism related health problems</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/friend.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/friend.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:21:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Steven Foelsch - A Busy Advocate for People with Disabilities</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Steven Foelsch, Director of Education Programs at Starkloff Disability Institute, enjoys the best of both worlds</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/steven-foelsch.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/steven-foelsch.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2015 13:05:10 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>New Life In China for St. Louis Woman with Disabilities</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Laura Merleau-McGrady in Guangzhou, China, begins new job as English teacher at The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/china.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/china.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 10:30:50 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Diabetic NASCAR Driver Wins at Daytona International Speedway</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>NASCAR Xfinity Series driver and Lilly Diabetes ambassador Ryan Reed wins Alert Florida 300 at Daytona International Speedway</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/nascar.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/nascar.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:09:52 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Writing Medical Review Articles - Scholar Strategies</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Strategies scholars use when writing review articles include narrative review, systematic review, scoping, critical-realist and open peer commentary</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/scholarly.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/scholarly.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:54:15 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Two-Time Cancer Survivor Heads to South Pole</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Swarner is no newcomer to amazing feats, he was the first cancer patient to summit Mt. Everest and conquer the Seven Summits</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/pole.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/pole.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:15:28 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Rethinking People-First Language: A Critical View on Disability Terminology</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>This article critiques people-first language, arguing it fails to reduce stigma and suggesting relationship-building is more effective for disability inclusion</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/oppositional.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/oppositional.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 10:25:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Teacher with Larsen Syndrome Role Model for Students</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Vocational Rehabilitation shares a story about a woman with Larsens Syndrome who found her dream job as a teacher</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/teacher.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/teacher.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 09:02:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Socio-cultural Interpretation: Disability, Technology, Sustainable Development</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Research paper outlines disability conditions in Bangladesh including types, causes and its socio-cultural construction</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/bangladesh.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/bangladesh.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:33:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Most US Presidents Forgotten Within 50 - 100 Years</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Study reveals most American presidents destined to be forgotten within 50 to 100 years of their serving as president of the United States</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/us-presidents.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/us-presidents.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:13:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>For the Love of Babies</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Guest blog post by Elizabeth Gwilliam regarding some of the challenges of parenting</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/babies.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/babies.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 09:27:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Skydiving a Release from Life in a Wheelchair for Matthew Dooley</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Matthew Dooley has cerebral palsy however that does not prevent him from enjoying the sport of skydiving</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/parachuting.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/parachuting.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2014 13:23:51 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Adaptive Clothing for People with Down Syndrome by Ashley</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Ashley DeRamus creates adaptive clothing line for women with Down syndrome, addressing fashion gaps and challenging disability stereotypes through entrepreneurship</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/ashley-clothing.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/ashley-clothing.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2013 07:00:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>A Dream - A Challenge - A Life Changing Moment</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>My dream of becoming an inventor came true more importantly my dream of changing the life of just one person became a reality</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/changing.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/changing.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:32:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Middle Aged Adults Face Pressure From Both Children and Parents</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Many older people are living longer which adds new and unanticipated needs that their children often must step up to assist with</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/empty-nest.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/empty-nest.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:28:31 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>People with Disabilities and Freezing Temperatures</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Information concerning persons with disability regarding dealing with cold winter weather, frostnip, and frostbite</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/frostnip.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/frostnip.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:46:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Sierra Gregg: Trailblazer for Americans with Disabilities</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Sierra Gregg at Missouri Truman State University is legally blind but proves hard work dedication and belief in a cause can overcome all limitations</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sierra-gregg.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sierra-gregg.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Hand-drawn Holiday Cards by Boy with Autism Funds Research</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>The jaunty snowmen and colorful Christmas trees on the holiday cards began as ad hoc therapy and from the start we wanted that money to go to research</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/holiday-cards.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/holiday-cards.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:06:55 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Three Days in the Life - Penny Pepper</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Penny Pepper has never let her disability define who she is or what she can do she has been a model a wheelchair burlesque dancer and in a punk band</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/3-days.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/3-days.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:58:42 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Portrayal of Amputee Villains in Film and Theater</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Article looks at how amputee actors are often portrayed in movies and theater</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/portrayed.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/portrayed.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:05:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Martyn Sibley: European Tour with Disability</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Martyn Sibley born with Spinal Muscular Atrophy is beginning a journey across Europe in a specially adapted car</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/europe-tour.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/europe-tour.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:45:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>We Are What We Live In: Get Organized, Get Happy!</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Clutter can affect mental physical and spiritual health by creating low energy levels, bad moods, poor decision making, pessimism and fatigue</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/organized.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/organized.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:57:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Toxic Mattress Chemicals Can Make You Sick</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>A Guide to some of the chemicals that your mattress may be composed of including their health risks</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/mattress-material.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/mattress-material.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:41:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Preventing Electric Shocks From Static Electricity</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Information on how to stop getting shocked from electrostatic discharges in your home, car, or wheelchair</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sparks.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sparks.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:54:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability and Global Expansion</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Disability is a means by which the human race can push to new heights and challenge ourselves to new levels of greatness</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/global-expansion.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/global-expansion.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:42:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Reflections on Happiness</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Article by Martina Roe on how to be happy as well as how to achieve and enjoy the feeling of happiness</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/happy.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/happy.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:39:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>7 Billion People Not an Issue - Human Development is What Counts</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Experts argue it is not the number of people that matters but more so their distribution by age education health status and location that is relevant to local and global sustainability</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/human-development.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/human-development.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:42:50 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Disability Diamond Theory - Martyn Sibley</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Disability Diamond Theory by Martyn Sibley is a disability model that focuses on an individuals impairment, needs, aspirations and life choices</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/disability-diamond-theory.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/disability-diamond-theory.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:35:42 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Wheelchairs and Medicare</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>The media often focuses on the price that Medicare pays to provide power wheelchairs to its beneficiaries</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/policymakers.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/policymakers.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:44:44 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>2 Yr Old&#39;s Understand Complex Grammar</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Psychologists have found children as young as two years old have understanding of complex grammar even before they have learned to speak in full sentences</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/grammar.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/grammar.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:41:47 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Prader-Willi Syndrome: Bill&#39;s Story</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Bill Sheadel was born with Prader-Willi Syndrome and has been praying for a cure for since he was just a little tot</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/pws-story.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/pws-story.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:12:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Overcoming Adversity and Beating the Odds</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Results of a new national study found that what does not kill us can make us mentally stronger</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/perdue.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/perdue.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:17:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Enmeshment: Dysfunctional Relational Pattern</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Enmeshment is a therapeutic term often misunderstood, this article covers what is enmeshment and how can a family recover from this dysfunctional relational pattern</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/enmeshment.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/enmeshment.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:54:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Creating a Business Blog: The Power of Blogging</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Regular blog posts known as blogging is a very effective area in which businesses can market their brand and reach a new demographic of customers</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/blogging.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/blogging.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:16:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>A Life&#39;s Lesson From The Front-lines of Developmental Disabilities</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>I have seen firsthand the importance of teaching self-awareness and social communication to students</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/lesson.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/lesson.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:38:35 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Everything You Think, Feel or Say is Important</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>We should never waste one ounce of it, good, bad or indifferent. Everything you think, everything you feel, everything you have to say or not have to say, is important</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/readers-story.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/readers-story.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:04:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Things My Father Taught Me: Love and Disability</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Love is something that might seem to be hidden at times as I grew up my perceptions of love were being developed even as I sometimes failed to recognize that they were</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/love-disability.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/love-disability.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 13:26:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Loneliness and Social Isolation Due to Disability</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Social isolation due to disability is not a new issue for many people with disabilities, the ADA is only part of the issue involving social isolation disabled people experience there are many other issues involved</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/social-isolation.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/social-isolation.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:52:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Experiences with Chondromalacia Patella</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>One of the diagnosis I have is Chondromalacia Patella a condition that is also referred to as Patellofemoral syndrome or Knee pain chondromalacia</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/chondromalacia-patella.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/chondromalacia-patella.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:28:41 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Living With Chronic Tendonitis</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>I experienced pain in my arms and elbows for months before I finally went to a doctor at the insistence of my supervisors</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/tendonitis.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/tendonitis.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:39:19 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Connections with Communication Technology and Sleep Patterns</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Annual Sleep in America poll exploring connections with communications technology use and sleep patterns in Americans</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sleep-connections.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sleep-connections.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:36:45 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Karen: Tribute to Life of Girl with Muscular Dystrophy</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>After four or five months of growth we noticed that she was kind of slow and were told that she had Muscular Dystrophy</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/karen.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/karen.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:40:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Environmental Disaster of Unprecedented Proportions from Millions of Abandoned Gas and Oil Wells</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Failed capping technology and oversight make millions of abandoned oil and gas wells worldwide ecological disasters waiting to happen</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/oil-wells.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/oil-wells.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:25:23 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Falling on Deaf Ears</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Specialists have told me that as I can not hear my own voice it is now not the same as it used to be and that is not something I can not do anything about</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/deaf-ears.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/deaf-ears.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:35:25 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Effect of Technology on the Fourth Amendment</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>The Fourth Amendment has offered protection from unreasonable searches and seizures but those protections are being minimized by new laws and court decisions upholding invasive investigatory tactics by state and federal agencies</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/4-amendment.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/4-amendment.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:03:50 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>There Are No Limits to What You Can Do</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>What if you could accomplish all that you set out to do with no limits</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/no-limits.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/no-limits.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:43:05 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>After Christmas Boxing Day Sales &amp; Specials</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Shoppers can save on a large range of items they need throughout the year by shopping the after Christmas or Boxing Day sales</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sales.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/sales.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:19:14 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>When Do Athletes Reach Their Physical Limits?</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Running and swimming records are broken at almost every international athletics event, but can human performance continue to improve indefinitely</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/athlete-records.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/athlete-records.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:09:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Christmas Holidays Arrive Once Again</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>The holiday season all too often finds people with disabilities wondering why they are not involved in activities to a greater extent</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/holidays.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/holidays.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:25:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Plan to Save Thousands of American Lives Ignored by Washington</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Lawyer claims his plan to reform the FDA could save 100000 lives a year but is ignored by Congress and the White House</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/american-lives.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/american-lives.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 10:20:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>We Are Enabled By Design: Universal Design and Accessibility</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Equip-able Ltd sponsored and participated in the first event held by the founders of the website Enabledbydesign</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/enabled-by-design.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/enabled-by-design.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:26:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>New Jersey Walks for TS to Raise Awareness of Tourette Syndrome</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Tourette Syndrome is an inherited neurological disorder seen in as many as 1 in 100 children</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/new-jersey-walks.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/new-jersey-walks.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:53:41 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Terminal at 4 Years Old - Triumphant at 22</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>In 1992 when Dant was 4-years-old he got to meet his hero Nolan Ryan and exchanged autographs</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/ryan-dant.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/ryan-dant.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:28:40 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Being a Good Neighbor to People with Disabilities</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Disabilities come in many forms some individuals might be physically impaired to the extent that they have difficulty moving or executing physical tasks</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/good-neighbors.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/good-neighbors.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:50:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Refugees with Disabilities</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Disabled refugees are one of the most vulnerable populations in the United States</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/refugees.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/refugees.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:54:44 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>My Journey of Self Discovery - Martina Roe</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>This is a story about me setting off on a road of discovery and searching my place in the world</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/self-discovery.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/self-discovery.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:23:02 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Do Children Understand Irony</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Findings from the University of Montreal reveals that children as young as four are able to understand and use irony</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/irony.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/irony.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:49:25 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Age-Old Advice from Your Elders</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Sometimes elderly advice is the best advice as older adults declining ability to control their responses allows them to provide a greater quantity and quality of advice</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/advice.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/advice.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:31:24 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Ovulating Women Buy Sexier Clothing</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>In an unconscious attempt to outdo female rivals ovulating women buy sexier clothing</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/ovulating.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/ovulating.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:13:48 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>How Teenage Mental Illness Relates to the Homeless Youth</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Many troubled youth become runaways or are abandoned to the streets without a place to call home</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/homeless-youth.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/homeless-youth.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:59:25 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Walking Across America with Brain Tumors</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Disabled Consumer Advocate to Positively Walk Across America with Brain Tumors for Charity</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/walk-america.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/walk-america.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:53:31 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Steph Cutler - Inspiration and Motivation Mentoring and Training</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Having acquired a disability I realized many of the barriers disabled people face on a day-to-day basis</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/steph-cutler.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/steph-cutler.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:40:09 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Adversity: Here to Break Us or Make Us</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>There are many success stories of disabled individuals overcoming adversity</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/adversity-disabilities.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/adversity-disabilities.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:23:52 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Day I Met Christopher Reeve</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Each of us has heroes we admire, some of our heroes we have known personally, while others we admire from afar, I met my hero, Christopher Reeve</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/life-lesson.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/life-lesson.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:15:48 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Understanding Disability Types and Inclusion Tips</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Overview of physical, cognitive, and psychological disability types affecting 650 million people worldwide with practical ways to support inclusion in daily life</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/differently-abled.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/differently-abled.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:57:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Reflecting About Empathy</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Till I started my Introduction to counseling skills course I had very little idea what empathy meant</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/empathy.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/empathy.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:07:04 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Alternative Evolution: Why Change Your Own Genes When You Can Borrow Someone Else&#39;s</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Principle of evolution that plants and animals can adapt genetically in ways that help them better survive and reproduce</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/evolution.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/evolution.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:17:58 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Paul Fejtek First Person with Brachial Plexus Palsy to Climb all Seven Summits</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Paul Fejtek a person with Brachial Plexus Palsy climbs the highest mountain on each continent</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/paul-fejtek.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/paul-fejtek.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:04:55 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Navigating Disability: Exploring the Personal, Professional, and Ethical Challenges</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>In my professional roles I advocate for and make appropriate suggestions for accommodations and interventions for people with disabilities</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/dilemma.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/dilemma.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 09:42:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Record Number of Americans Ready to Leave U.S.</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>International Living Survey Shows Record Number of Americans Ready to Leave the U.S.</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/leave-america.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/leave-america.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:49:52 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Tattletale Pill Signals it has been Swallowed</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Engineers design pill that signals it has been swallowed</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/tattletale-pill.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/tattletale-pill.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:08:31 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>What-Up Birds? A Heartwarming SOFTIN Memory</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>What-up birds are a pair of seagulls who adopted the SOFTIN boat WaveWalker and visit us when we come back to harbor</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/softin-memory.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/softin-memory.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:28:58 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Restoring Vitality in Our Lives</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Turn on your favorite music and transport yourself to a place and time of happiness and peace</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/restoring-vitality.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/restoring-vitality.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:07:09 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Poor Face Greater Health Burden than Smokers or the Obese</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Poverty and dropout rates as important as health problem and smoking in the United States</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/health-burdens.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/health-burdens.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:29:13 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Does Discipline Really Change the Behavior of Children</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Discipline was never intended to have an effect on children</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/discipline-children.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/discipline-children.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:17:32 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Jacobson Award Recipient Wants to Be a Taxpayer</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Hughes is on his way to reaching his goal as this years Judd Jacobson Memorial Award recipient</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/jacobson-award-recipient.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/jacobson-award-recipient.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:22:40 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Ardipithecus Ramidus - Ardi - Oldest Skeleton of Human Ancestors</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Discovery of Ardi a relatively complete Ardipithecus ramidus fossil skeleton sheds light on human evolution</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/ardipithecus-ramidus.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/ardipithecus-ramidus.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:45:02 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Cab Driver Can Not Donate Kidney to Passenger</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Tom Chappell a Phoenix cab driver can not donate kidney to his passenger</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/cab-driver-kidney.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/cab-driver-kidney.php</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:19:39 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>To Walk or Not to Walk that is the Question</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>I have been getting progressively weaker and have adapted my lifestyle to suit these changes</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/walk-question.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/walk-question.php</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:17:14 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Nancy Pelosi Fears Violence</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>A Guest Blog about Nancy Pelosis fears that political turmoil will turn to violence in America</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/pelosi-fears-violence.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/pelosi-fears-violence.php</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:40:56 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Gadgets and Gizmos</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Staring at the ceiling I was suddenly aware that there were numerous flashing lights before my eyes</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/gadgets-gizmos.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/gadgets-gizmos.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:36:12 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Encounters with Disabled Toilets</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>When people talk to me about disabled toilets I visualize a buckled and bent toilet with its cistern lid crooked</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/disabled-toilets.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/disabled-toilets.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:22:40 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Arrogance or Ignorance of the Healthy</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>It is the belief of those who have never suffered a chronic disease that it is the patients fault they have the disease</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/arrogance-ignorance.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/arrogance-ignorance.php</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:13:17 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Acceptance and Loss: Pain, Stress and Disability</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Our level of coping with difficulties is an important factor in deciding how effective and content we are with our lives</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/acceptance-loss.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/acceptance-loss.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:29:55 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Disabled Veteran Finds Survival Through Relocation</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>A disabled veteran shares his decision to relocate internationally to manage living costs, reduce pain, and rebuild quality of life after service injury</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/veteran-choices.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/veteran-choices.php</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:37:00 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>New Video Blog Opens Eyes to Treatment of Disabled</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Video blog capturing one 26-year-old woman&#39;s experience navigating through life with a severe physical disability</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/treatment-of-disabled.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/treatment-of-disabled.php</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:02:55 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>Why Obama&#39;s Dog has Curly Hair</title><category>Blogs - Stories</category><description>Portuguese water dogs the breed of President Barack Obama&#39;s dog Bo helps find gene that gives dogs curly hair and others long wavy hair</description><link>https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/obamas-dog.php</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/blogs/obamas-dog.php</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:10:16 EDT</pubDate><source url="https://www.disabled-world.com/">Disabled World</source></item><item><title>The Sixth Sense: Fish and the Lateral-line System</title><category>Blogs - 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