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LIFE, INC – LAUNCHES NEW EVENT NEWSLETTER LIFE is excited to announce that LIFE, a Center for Independent Living is starting a quarterly newsletter. As we continue to expand our activities, classes, and events we are also improving the way we distribute important dates ...
Built in accessibility features in Apple products are designed to make life easier for people with all kinds of disabilities. For example: you can use the magnifier on your iPhone or iPad to increase the size of anything you are looking at, like medication instructions. Add ...
An epic fail means “a notable, obvious, and usually public failure.” Though perhaps well intentioned, these fails can embarrass, isolate, and even endanger people with disabilities. We work to remove barriers so people with disabilities can live more ...
Saving Even More with ABLE People with disabilities can save more money without jeopardizing eligibility for government benefits thanks to a change in tax rules for the new year. Starting January, the federal gift tax exclusion increases from $16,000 to $17,000 annually, ...
Kristin Beale is a published author and illustrator from Virginia. She has completed 16 marathons, is a nationally-competing wheelchair fencer, public speaker, and works for Morgan James Publishing as a literary scout. At age fourteen, Kristin Beale was enjoying a happy ...
VELCRO ICE PACK This ice pack can fit around your neck when you are feeling over heated. Or use around your shoulder if you have reached too high and are sore. If you use a heating pad for your legs at night but tend to get too warm, try this around your neck to balance […]
Instead of Resolutions, Set some new Goals! Setting goals helps trigger new behaviors, helps guides your focus and helps you sustain that momentum in life. Goals also help align your focus and promote a sense of self-mastery. In the end, you can’t manage what you ...
We are not special – we are just like you I have a problem with the words “special needs”.These words only exist so that people don’t have to say the word “disability.” It allows non-disabled people, to avoid describing people, generally children, as having ...
Community Service Project One of DAC NW’ s consumers, Josh Nick was tasked with some community service. He decided to involve his daughter Kyra to gather items for the homeless in the Lewiston area. DAC NW office served as a drop off for this project. It wasn’t ...
Operation Advocacy Our current goal at LINC is to develop a network of advocates state wide to create change over time. We want to help people gain power in this process; an experienced advocate brings along a new peer for future training. This is how we build an advocacy ...
