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Home Evacuation Checklist: As with any emergency, handling a home evacuation with confidence comes down to being as prepared as possible. With the right preparations, everyone can get to safety without making missteps along the way or getting too stressed. Although there is ...

News from Idaho SILC

Life with COVID-19 Happy November! We are now entering the 8th, or is it 9th month of Covid. When things started happening last March, the thought of still being in the middle of a crisis this many months later was unimaginable to me…after all, November was months and months ...

Technology for Independent Living

Magnetic Buttons for those with Hand weakness You may avoid buying button down shirts, or when you do, you sew the buttons up leaving enough of an opening to pull the shirt over your head. Gina Adams, via her compnpany called Buttons 2 Buttons has come up with a great ...

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It’s turkey math time! Looking for a fun way for your youngest children to strengthen their number sense? Building these turkeys will do the trick. Kids will explore different number representations for 1-10. Great for ages preschool to first grade. Site includes the free ...

Timely Tidbits

Quotes to make you think! “Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment – and more – by making people with disabilities ...

Idaho Independent Living Newsletter

Sharona Franklin started her meme Instagram account @hot.crip to advocate for disability justice through her memes and art. Check it out

Vicki Leeper

From the Editor

It took that very windy Monday and the fires in Colfax for me to realize how fast one can spread and the need to be prepared. Our stepdaughter was burned out in Paradise California and I think we can learn the most from people who have been through it. I am working on this ...

News from DAC NW

PAVE THE WAY FOR THE ADA Staff at our Post Falls office have been preparing for months for their ADA 30th Anniversary Celebration – Pave the Way for the ADA. First, it involved traveling to rural parts of northern Idaho: Sandpoint, Clark Fork, Priest River, Hope, ...

News from Northwest ADA Center – Idaho

As meetings and events move to online as a result of COVID, accessibility is too often an afterthought. Where before one would make sure the venue was accessible etc, now we need to make sure the virtual event is accessible too. So let’s break down the inaccessibility of the ...

News from LINC

Lunch with LeAnn     During the #ADA30Idaho Celebration, LINC has been busy interviewing movers and shakers in the disability advocacy industry in fun, uplifting lunch sessions.     In a recent session on September 23rd, LeAnn interviewed Janice Carson, the director of the ...