Disability Articles

• Costs Of Work Injuries by Patrick Watson
  Excerpt: Most people injured in the workplace are in their productive years. Often they are the newly educated; they may have young families; they may be providers for older families. They are professionals, bread-winners,...
  
  
• Crossing The Line by Corinne Francis
  Excerpt: I am a Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (CAOT) member who is currently a non-practising occupational therapist (OT). During my training, I was taught that spirituality was involved in adjustment to...
  
  
• D-net Is Honoured With Media Access Awards
  Excerpt: What do "Baywatch," "Seinfeld" and "The Disability Network" have in common? All three shows are winners of the Media Access Awards. The awards were established in 1979 by the...
  
  
• Finding My Place by Wendy Harris
  Excerpt: Bonnie Klein has had some powerful stories to tell. A decade ago, in her film Not A Love Story, she compelled us to look at pornography in a new way - not as harmless male entertainment but as an acid that poisons...
  
  
• In The New Millennium by Paul Raina
  Excerpt: If there was one lasting image of the global millennium celebrations, it was not the fireworks, spectacular as they were. It was not that the world did not come to a grinding halt because of Y2K computer bugs. It was...
  
  
• Just The Cost Of Doing Business? by Lisa Bendall
  Excerpt: What do fitness rooms, low-fat cafeteria menus and on-site day care centres all have in common when applied to the workplace? They are all creative examples of how an employer can keep staff members healthy and...
  
  
• Keys To Positive Change by Raymond D. Cohen
  Excerpt: What an interesting time this is! Here we are, issue number 40 of ABILITIES Magazine - hitting the street during the next to last quarter of the final year of the twentieth century... (Didn�t Nostradamus make some kind...
  
  
• Letting People Shine Through by Sandra Carpenter
  Excerpt: When people ask me what I do for a living, I take a deep breath. �I�m the Executive Director of the Foundation on Independent Living,� I say... then wait for it... �And what does the Foundation do?� I explain, �Our...
  
  
• My Body, My Self by Kim Miller
  Excerpt: My body is my most precious possession; it is also a central part of my identity. While I admire my body�s resilience, endurance and strength, I am reminded on a daily basis of its limitations and needs. I live in a...
  
  
• Parasites... by Carolyn Turnbull
  Excerpt: I recently received some health counsel from a caring relative. He regularly deals with a nutrition enterprise, and the people there had alerted him to certain "wisdoms" about multiple sclerosis, published as...