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 [...]
This year, the annual Catholic HEART Work Camp visited Toledo from June 12-18. Youth from all over the Midwest came to serve less fortunate individuals in the community. The Work Camp helped The Ability Center build an access ramp for one of our consumers. This marks The Ability Center’s (ACT) fifth year of collaborating with [...]
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 [...]
September 29, 2010 – 4:18 PM
By Cole Watts, Guest Writer If you are caring for someone with a disability, it can be an incredibly stressful time. You may need to deal with many issues at once, all of which can send your tension levels through the roof. Stress has a wide range of effects on the human body. Chronic stress [...]
September 14, 2010 – 8:27 AM
By Keith Hosey, Guest Writer I’ve been working in the disability rights field for seven years and have been in the “business” of disability since I was born with the congenital disability of severe bilateral club feet. My parents never told me “you can’t” when it came to my disability, in fact they didn’t even [...]
