ALL-CODA takes top prize at SAG awards in Major win for Deaf Representation
In a major triumph for deaf representation in Hollywood, the ensemble of “CODA” clinched the top prize Sunday at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards. After receiving two SAG nominations, the heartwarming Apple TV+ dramedy about a child of deaf adults (CODA) won them...ALL-Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and a wheelchair didn’t stop Ryann Kress, BS, RN……she got the job!
“Two years of ‘no.’ Two years of nobody wanted to take a chance on me, being seen as a liability, or just being instantly Googled, they would find my name, see my wheelchair and say absolutely not,” said Kress. Find out more at:...ALL – Med Student’s Disability Helps Him Connect With Patients
Tom Pisano has been working on both a medical degree and doctoral degree in neuroscience to help to study and treat conditions like his own. When he started making rounds in his wheelchair, he worried his patients would consider him less capable than his Robert Wood...ALL – Amanda Gorman, 22, delivers powerful inaugural poem: ‘There is always light’
Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman who, at age 22, spoke the 2021 inaugural poem, worked through life to this point with an auditory processing disorder, hypersensitivity to sound, and as a child she also had a speech impediment....ALL – Deserving Nurse Gets Million-Dollar Surprise of a Lifetime: Only Registered Nurse in NYC Who Uses a Wheelchair.
Please take a moment check out this amazing and inspirational story. A registered nurse in NYC and an advocate for others, who has made unbelievable strides for people with spinal cord injuries.ALL – Apple Watch Breaking Barriers for Students with Disabilities
Students with autoimmune diseases may face additional barriers in the clinical setting. Their symptoms can be intermittent and could include chronic fatigue, arthritic joint pain, and swelling in their extremities. A number of high- and low-tech solutions can address...ALL – Misophonia: A connection between sounds and emotions?
Misophonia, which literally means “hatred of sounds,” has been in existence for longer than any-one knows, but was first “officially” named by Dr. Pawel J. Jastreboff when he noticed a connection between certain “soft” noises (chewing, tapping, ticking, etc.) and a...ALL – My 5-Month Interlude as a Disabled Professor – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Two herniated discs and spinal stenosis suddenly reshaped my world. Debilitating pain and the inability to walk for several months were my new normal. Fortunately, surgery and assiduous physical therapy restored me. But my five-mouth travail provided a glimpse of an...FAC/STAFF – Do you have students in your courses who have been approved to use accommodations for a disability?
Do you have students in your courses who have been approved to use accommodations for a disability?