ALL-New Jersey Makes Progress On Disability Access: 8 Encouraging Stories
https://patch.com/new-jersey/newarknj/new-jersey-makes-progress-disability-access-8-encouraging-stories
ALL-The First Latina Wheelchair User To Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
https://www.benlabs.com/resources/meet-marcela-maranon/#:~:text=She%20has%20even%20climbed%20Tanzania's,that%20can%20come%20with%20disability
ALL-Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Dear Rutgers Health Community, Rutgers Health continues its commitment to build a culture of respect by recognizing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic violence is a public health issue that impacts individuals, loved ones, and communities. This...
ALL – RBHS Student Emergency Fund Established
RBHS, with support from the Rutgers Board of Trustees and individual donors, has established a Student Emergency Fund to assist students with urgent financial need pending receipt of other financial aid or available resources. These funds are modest awards that are...
ALL-Lizzo Changes Lyric In New Song After Criticism Over Ableist Slur
Lizzo has changed a lyric in her new song, “Grrrls,” after listeners pointed out it was an ableist slur. Find out more about this story at:...
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.