As a rehabilitation and employment counsellor for people with disabilities, I thought I understood how much pain and suffering my clients with disabilities had to face. That was until I lost my sight. I now understand firstha
I was in a team project with other professionals who were all relatively new to each other. We had to decide who would be the team leader. One other person and I wanted to hold that position. Under the veil of concern and sup
It’s interesting to have a sometimes unnoticeable disability, as people’s true colours are often revealed. I have sat at meetings where visibly able-bodied people would make jokes and pejorative assumptions about
After reading on the Internet about a national organisation’s training and hiring initiatives for people with disabilities, I visited their Vancouver office and found posters, pamphlets, and people promoting the initiat
In my early 20’s, I was a poster girl for inspiration. Armed with a new supposedly, “in-demand” practical and marketable business degree, my adage to other people with disabilities was just be