Harbor Regional Center is in Torrance, California, where it provides a wide range of services to people with disabilities and their families. I volunteered at the Center. Eventually, the management asked me to sit on the board of their Consumer…
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Tips on How to Run a Successful Business, Even if You’re Disabled, by Jillian Day
[Editor’s note: Jillian Day created 508Assist.org to help people all across the web make their sites accessible to individuals with disabilities. She was inspired to start 508Assist.org when a close family member, who happens to have a visual impairment, had…
Resume Guide for People with Disabilities
If you want to get a job, or you want to get a better job, you need a resume and a cover letter. This is true whether or not you have a disability. This post will point the way to…
“…guide for parents whose kids are diagnosed with ADHD…”
I recently received an email from Tara Worsham, the founder of OnlineSafetyKids.com – Helping you to PROTECT your kids online, Her website is not quite ready, yet, but I wanted to share some useful information for parents whose kids…
National Disabilities Employment Month (NDEAM)
Last month was National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month. I didn’t post about because I didn’t feel I had much new I could add to the conversation. I’d already written about my own struggles finding suitable employment, my battle with the…
Tips for Moving With a Disability by Jillian Day
(Image via Pexels) If you are considering a move, then here is some advice on how to do it. It certainly got me to thinking. Do you, dear reader, have some tips on moving with a disability? Maybe you have…
Disability Pride Month Reading List
For over fifty years, the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses has been a lifeline, sustaining small literary publishers in their efforts to bring significant, creative works to the public. They recently published a list of books and other literary…
Paying the Bills During COVID-19: Tips for People with Disabilities by Jillian Day
Photo via Pexels [Editor’s note: Jillian Day created 508Assist.org to help people all across the web make their sites accessible to individuals with disabilities. She was inspired to start 508Assist.org when a close family member, who happens to have a…
6 Tips to Help You Find the Right Accessible Home by Jillian Day of 508assist.org
Photo credit: Unsplash [Editor’s note: Jillian Day created 508Assist.org to help people all across the web make their sites accessible to individuals with disabilities. She was inspired to start 508Assist.org when a close family member, who happens to have a…
With Hope in My Heart, an article I wrote for Audacity Magazine
Recently, my friend Nathasha Alvarez asked me to write an article for her online Audacity Magazine. I was delighted because memories of the struggles I went through to get an education in the 1970s, when inclusion was not an ideal…