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Explore past posts to read personal experiences of disability, tips for how to improve accessibility in your community, what you can do to be more inclusive, and more.
Jen grew up in Vegreville, Alberta, but has called Halifax, Nova Scotia, home since 2001.
The average hockey player starts skating at the age of three or four. I started just before I turned 20. By that time, I had already learned to speak French, and had worked at a Tim Hortons.
A guide dog is a partner in independence for blind or partially sighted people and can open up the world in a profoundly different way.
Unlike in today’s media landscape, there was nobody for children with disabilities to look up to during the 1970s and 1980s. Jim Teneycke, a child of that era, remembers this well.
Once a Difference Maker, always a Difference Maker.
Hundreds of people from all over the globe attended the Rick Hansen Foundation’s first virtual conference, #APN2021: Accelerating Access, held March 11th and 12th, 2021.
The bunnies are irresistibly soft to the touch.
To honour the 20th anniversary of the Rick Hansen Foundation School Program (RHFSP) we sat down virtually with the program’s first director, Amanda Hansen.
Cecilia Hynes remembers exactly where she was on May 22nd, 1987.