October 21, 2011 – 10:20 AM
The National Center on Physical Activity and Disability’s (NCPAD) mission is to promote the substantial health benefits gained from participating in regular physical activity. As a center, we believe that every individual can gain some health benefit as a result of being more physically active. Our goal is to provide people with disabilities options and [...]
ALVA BUNKER, INSPIRATION FOR THE ABILITY CENTER, MEMORIALIZED It was a cool, blustery day and the sun did not shine but there was a certain warmth enfolding the crowd gathered to honor one man’s life and contribution. It would have been his 110th birthday and though he died in 1979, it wasn’t until this day [...]
By Tony Trott Some people’s diets greatly affect them, while others suffer no consequences for eating all of the wrong things. Fortunately, or unfortunately (depending upon how you look at it), I fell into the former category and as a result managed to improve my life by changing my diet. I’ll tell you my story, [...]
November 2, 2010 – 11:05 AM
By Joe Monks, Guest Writer Let me get this out of the way. I’m blind. Not legally blind, not visually impaired, not optically challenged. The lights are out. My life is lived in total darkness. When I announced, via a press release, that I was moving from the field of comic book and prose writing [...]
October 20, 2010 – 11:48 AM
By Jennifer Green, MS, Guest Writer One out of every five Americans or 20% of our population has a disability. Research has found that the number of health disparities increases significantly in those individuals with disabilities when compared to the general population, individuals with disabilities often have a much higher rate of obesity in both [...]
