Featured Blogger of the Month

Customer Service: Businesses Must Evolve for People With Disabilities

09/24/13 - Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Education, Featured Blogger of the Month, Guest Blogger, Person-First Language, Social Enterprise, Tools and aids, Uncategorized, Videos - 1 Comment

Disability is something that can affect anyone. Some people are born with disabilities whereas others can become disabled for a variety of reasons including illness and accidents. Sometimes this can even be a result of medical negligence or a brain injury. I think it’s fair…

Smart or Greedy: The Lack of Accessibility Features on eReaders

09/18/13 - Education, Featured Blogger of the Month, Guest Blogger, Tools and aids, Uncategorized - 1 Comment

A smart move, or a missing link in the chain? In recent weeks, e-reader manufacturers Amazon, Kobo, and Sony filed a joint petition to the FCC to exempt e-readers from complying with accessibility laws for the disabled. Their argument is that adding e-readers to the…

D-blogger of the Month: 5 Boys and 1 Girl make 6

08/15/12 - Disability in the Media, Down Syndrome, Featured Blogger of the Month, Guest Blogger - 2 Comments

This is a guest blog post by Katie Driscoll, a mother of a girl with Down Syndrome and the author of the blog 5 Boys and 1 Girl make 6.

On a beautiful day in August of 2009 my husband and I walked to the hospital…

D-blogger of the Month: PillowAngel.org

04/23/12 - Featured Blogger of the Month, Good Web Finds - 1 Comment

If you were a regular reader of articles on disability issues in Jan 2007, you might have come across the then-controversial story of Ashley – the beautiful girl whose severe brain disorder meant that she was going to remain permanently at an infant level both…

D-Blogger of the month: Wrestling With An Angel

03/23/12 - Featured Blogger of the Month - 1 Comment

Just before climbing into the truck he turned to me and said, “You know it gets worse, right?”

“What gets worse?” I asked.

“Your son,” he replied. “It gets worse as they get older and you get older. They get stronger and you get weaker. You still…

D-blogger of the Month: This is No Ordinary Kid

02/28/12 - Featured Blogger of the Month, Good Web Finds, Uncategorized - 0 Comments

In This is No Ordinary Kid, writer Jane shares stories about her life BC – before Cameron – and AC – after Cameron.

Jane is a mother of an 8 year old daughter and a 15 year old son Cameron who developed Pneumococcal Meningitis, which left him…

D-blogger of the month: MBA Mommy

01/20/12 - Featured Blogger of the Month - 1 Comment

Have you ever picked up one of those books that you just. couldn’t. put. down? Didn’t matter that you had to get up at the crack of dawn the next day… you just wanted to keep going.

That’s what it was like for me reading the…

D-blogger of the month: Katrina Moody at Kat’s Cafe

12/09/11 - Featured Blogger of the Month - 2 Comments

Honest, relatable and beautifully written. That’s how I’d describe Kat’s Cafe, a blog by Katrina Moody, mother of 3 boys who are all on the autism spectrum and share a rare disorder Rieger Syndrome. Kat takes us on a journey of words and paints a…

D-Blogger of the month: The Autism Pundit

11/11/11 - Featured Blogger of the Month - 0 Comments

Dr. Sabrina Freeman, the Autism Pundit

Author of three books on Autism – Teach Me Language, Science for Sale in the Autism Wars, and The Complete Guide to Autism Treatments (2011) – and mother of a daughter with Autism, Dr. Sabrina Freeman writes regularly, and honestly, about…