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Ashley Eakin on the Opportunities and Challenges Facing Disabled Filmmakers

Ashley Eakin on the Opportunities and Challenges Facing Disabled Filmmakers

In a 30-minute interview, hear filmmaker Ashley Eakin explain why stories about disability are garnering so much attention these days—and ...
To Create a New World, Let Go of What Tethers You to the Old One

To Create a New World, Let Go of What Tethers You to the Old One

Doctors did all they could to save my leg. But when I shifted my thinking from "limb salvage" to "quality-of-life ...
Amputee Models Are Front and Center in Campaign for Inclusion

Amputee Models Are Front and Center in Campaign for Inclusion

The Runway of Dreams' Campaign for Inclusion unites six of the fashion industry’s biggest brands with some amazing amputee models ...
EVAC Act Aims to Boost Safety for Amputee Air Travelers

EVAC Act Aims to Boost Safety for Amputee Air Travelers

A new Senate bill would require the Federal Aviation Administration to ensure that people with disabilities can safely evacuate an ...
These True Amputee Companions Will Never Walk Alone

These True Amputee Companions Will Never Walk Alone

Brianna Jones and Armeda Batchler met through an amputee support group. Now the two inseparable friends are finding ways to ...
New Research Aims to Unite Trio of Bionic Innovations

New Research Aims to Unite Trio of Bionic Innovations

Combine osseointegration with targeted muscle reinnervation and powered bionic technology, and you end up with a prosthetic leg like no ...
Financial Help for Amputees During Mobility May

Financial Help for Amputees During Mobility May

We queried our new Amputee Community Resource Directory and found a few dozen sources of financial help for amputees who ...
Book Excerpt: "Pain can turn us into monsters"

Book Excerpt: “Pain can turn us into monsters”

In this excerpt from her debut book, Chris Prange-Morgan recounts the agonizing days before her amputation, as she and her ...
23 Ways Amputees Rocked It During #LLLDAM 2023

23 Ways Amputees Rocked It During #LLLDAM 2023

Was the 2023 edition Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month the best one ever? Suffice to say that it ...
Better Prosthetics for Amputees? Bob Kerrey Has a Plan for That

Better Prosthetics for Amputees? Bob Kerrey Has a Plan for That

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey has lots of ideas about how to make the US limb-care system more responsive to ...
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