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'This film reminded me that healing and growth happen when we stop hiding parts of ourselves and let others in.'
Canadian humanist Jean Vanier is the 2015 winner of the Templeton Prize, a $2.1 million award for his work bringing adults with and witho...
In 2011 Amir Karmali's son Kaylum was accidently kicked in the head during a soccer game. The next morning he couldn't walk and was hospi...
When Luke Anderson graduated as a civil engineer in 2002 he moved from Ontario to British Columbia to pursue his passion: mountain biking...
Beyond the Pale is a new memoir about raising a child with albinism. It's written by Emily Urquhart, a Canadian folklorist and writer who...
Disabled by design Slate"We inhabit a culture that perpetuates the idea that disability lies in bodies rather than in design." Fascina...
It seemed a simple exercise. I was at Columbia University doing a a course for clinicians and writers on narrative medicine. In our small...
I'm often sent story pitches for what strike me as ridiculous products that in no way relate to parenting, let alone parenting children w...
Hanzhen Yap is a 16-year-old Malaysian artist with autism whose intricate sketches of historical buildings, animals and everyday objects ...
By Megan JonesIn the summer of 2013, Mindy Scheier was faced with a problem. Her son Oliver, then nine, wanted to wear jeans to school.Ol...
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