Overcoming disabilities
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010Erzsébet Szekeres is an extraordinary woman. She has developed a program to address three of the most difficult problems that disabled adults face in Hungary – a lack of job training, few employment opportunities, and a housing shortage. By addressing these issues, she is helping the disabled to be as independent as possible and is [...]
Javed Abidi – Giving Visibility and Hope to India’s Disabled
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Power and compassion – these two words can sum up the focus behind Javed Abidi’s mission. As an impassioned advocate for India’s disabled citizens, he has given voice to an ‘invisible minority‘ – one that has been denied to them by both political and social sectors for decades. It is a subject that he understands [...]
ADHD and the Literary Tradition
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010Writing is both mask and unveiling. – E.B. White Any editor will tell you – writers can be a notoriously difficult group. Prone to perfectionism, deep melancholy, and the sense that – given a little extra time – literary genius would be available for the taking. This is, of course, only slightly in jest. However, [...]
Without Limits – Disabled Artists Challenge Convention
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009‘Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.’ – Terry Josephson The output of any artist is a highly personalized mix of elements – talents (both innate and developed), mastery of technique, distinct world view and their reaction to limitations. It is what makes art compelling and worthwhile, that one [...]
The Gift of Life – Bone Marrow Donations
Friday, December 18th, 2009It is a gift that can’t be bought, boxed or bound with ribbons. It doesn’t require AA batteries or a few turns of a screwdriver. This holiday season, as thousands of children eagerly await the promise of Christmas morning, 4-year old Maya Chamberlin is waiting for something far more precious than this year’s hottest toy [...]
ADHD and Composers
Friday, December 4th, 2009The myriad of factors responsible for the development of ADHD may be still largely unknown to us, but while medical research into the causes of the disorder is only recently beginning to shed some light on the condition and its genesis, the symptoms have been well-documented throughout the centuries. This idea appears most notably in [...]
Terry Bradshaw – Winning the Battle with ADHD
Friday, November 6th, 2009Terry Bradshaw is a hard guy to ignore – not that you’d want to. The four-time Super Bowl champ has become a fixture of the American football tradition – known as much for his legendary professional career as for his informed yet brash commentary as a game analyst on Fox NFL Sunday. Quick-witted, and quick-to-laugh, [...]
Fighting on Two Fronts – Mariette Hartley’s Struggle with ADHD and Bipolar Disorder
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009From the outside in, Emmy award-winning actress Mariette Hartley appeared to have it all. A successful career acting on stage, film, and television, co-authoring a best-selling memoir, Breaking the Silence, and performing an acclaimed one-woman show. But is the life behind the scenes that is raising public awareness of an entirely different sort of existence [...]
ADHD Awareness Week – The Power Understanding Brings
Thursday, September 17th, 2009‘Knowledge is Power.’ This quote by Sir Francis Bacon was the premise of a speech presented on behalf of New Zealand’s Minister for Disability Issues by Hon. Tariana Turia, at the kick-off seminar for their observance of ADD/ADHD Awareness Week. And although this quote can be used in a myriad of contexts, on this particular [...]
Sports and ADHD
Friday, September 11th, 2009The Water Cube was filled to capacity, with thousands of fans waiting in anticipation to see one of the greatest Olympians of all time take the starting block. At the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps was under intense pressure, but you wouldn’t have known it. Amid his anxious competitors, Phelps [...]
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