Aug 20, 2018 | Community, SCI
ListenIn a step forward for inclusive advertising, the lingerie and swimwear brand Aerie featured a wheelchair user as an underwear model for a recent ad campaign. Abby Sams, a 20-year-old from Athens, Georgia, was included as part of Aerie’s latest addition to its...
Aug 8, 2018 | Community, SCI
ListenKelly and I didn’t even have a name picked out before he was born. After eight months of waffling, Ewan and Micah were the boy-name finalists. Choosing a name that he’d carry through life seemed like a big responsibility. Then out he popped, all wrinkles and...
Mar 22, 2018 | Community, SCI
Listen Dr Palipana tells his story in his own words. I didn’t grow up wanting to be a doctor. And I certainly never imagined practising medicine with quadriplegia. I was exactly halfway through medical school when my car aquaplaned on Brisbane’s Gateway...
Mar 22, 2018 | Community, SCI
Listen On January 10, 2012, Agustin Zanoli was 18 years old and spent his summer vacation in Carilo, a seaside resort on the Argentine coast. During a quad race in sand dunes the Cordoba resident, now 24, lost the use of his arms and legs. At the end of 2015,...
Jan 9, 2018 | Community, News
Listen As a follow-up to the Symposium of December 2nd, 2016, Totolika organized a symposium “20 years ‘Lei di Labizjan’”. It was held on December 2nd, 2017, at ‘Landhuis Klein Kwartier’. Although there were not many participants, the contents of the symposium...
Jul 12, 2017 | Community, SCI
ListenThe Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. There were 82 signatories to the...
