Every state has a vocational rehabilitation agency that is designed to help individuals with disabilities meet their employment goals. Vocational rehabilitation agencies assist individuals with disabilities to prepare for, obtain, maintain, or regain employment. The link below will take you to a site that has vocational rehab services for every state in the US. State […]
Ditch the popcorn and excessively large soda — starting a family on wheels takes a bit more thought than Seth Rogen’s on-screen character drunkenly spreading his seed in the movie, Knocked Up. We’re talking real life family planning — bun-in-the-oven style — for chair users. Whether it’s the old fashioned way, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy […]
Evelyne Studer chose truck driving as a profession. The young woman liked hard work and enjoyed the freedom on wheels – until she had a terrible accident and suffered a severed spinal cord. In one moment everything was different. Dreams vanished. Doubt flooded her thoughts. In the meanwhile the 35 year old wheelchair driver no […]
On Father’s Day, fathers celebrate their fatherhood. And how can being a father and having a disability work together? A few weeks after Mother’s Day, always on Ascension Day, there is the male counterpart: Father’s Day. 2009, it fell on 21st May. So one day in honour of the patriarchy? Hardly. First, patriarchal structures are […]