In this day and age, inclusion and diversity are two things that should be commonplace just about everywhere. Unfortunately that is not always the case. A development that may help educate future [...]
The last few weeks have been challenging here in the upper mid-west. This is a good old-fashioned hard winter. Extreme cold, plentiful snowfall, and high winds have made life extremely [...]
What does Freedom mean to you? Freedom Resource Center has been helping people with disabilities live more independently for 30 years. During that stretch we’ve helped countless individuals [...]
Living in your own home can be challenging; but if you ask someone who is doing so because of access to resources, peer mentoring and skills training; they would tell you that it is worth it. [...]
Guillermo Robles; who is blind; uses screen-reading software to access the internet. This vocalizes websites’ visual information for users; but when trying to change his toppings while ordering [...]
Sometimes we can get so busy with our lives that we forget about others. We live in communities with diverse demographics. The rich, and the poor. The young, and the old. For communities to [...]
Sometimes it seems like the smallest task is like climbing a mountain. For me, last week, my mountain was taking down the Christmas decorations and packing them away in the same box they came [...]
Think of a time when you have been in total darkness. Now imagine that your vision is reduced to just that, darkness. How would you read, write, make your dinner, or find the restroom? For so [...]
The biggest travel weekend is upon us. According to AAA, more than one-third of Americans will travel this holiday season. With that many people on the road it is easy to justify staying home, [...]
When I was growing up video games were just starting to gain a large audience. I remember going over to my friend’s house and playing no-stop for hours. After an unfortunate accident, my [...]
