The Winter Paralympics started last Friday. But Peacock hid the Opening ceremonies at the bottom of the home page so it took forever to find it. This is completely different coverage than what the Winter Olympics received – and the Winter Olympics received very high ratings. So the Winter Paralympics should be getting a boost from a successful Winter Olympics games, right? Well… NBC promised that coverage would be nearly identical between the Olympics and the Paralympics, but it has been far, far worse and nearly forgotten. For reference, the Olympic Committee is different than Paralympic Committee. They are two separate entities that agree to have these events back to…

Last week, I wrote about the pros and cons of some forms of transportation. This week, the focus is on paratransit services. Paratransit services are a type of public transit that supplements the fixed route systems for people with disabilities (and most of the time includes seniors). These services are provided to a person with a disability when you live a certain distance away from a bus stop. In my town, it’s one mile. I live .9 miles away from a bus stop and had to get a doctor’s note while in school that says I should not have to go to the bus stop a mile away in my…

I was born and raised in northern Wisconsin. If there is one thing that remains a constant, it’s how inaccessible the winter is. It’s miserable. If you don’t know anything about Wisconsin winter, it lasts about six months. If we’re unlucky, it snows for the first time at the end of September and the last snow has happened in the middle of May in my own memory. Currently, as I’m writing this, it is a whole 11 degrees outside. Two weeks ago, it was the coldest day of the year where the high temperature reached -9 degrees (F). I am always cold due to poor circulation and I have Reynaud’s…

Life hacks are adaptations. They adapt a process of a chore to make that chore more efficient for an individual. It’s an adaptation. People with disabilities constantly adapt activities of daily living to make life easier to manage, often leading to more autonomous and/or independence – many times with adaptive devices. An activity of daily living is any routine task that is part of every day living. For example, eating and bathing. IADLs are more complex every day tasks like shopping, housework and organization, pet care and more. Both able bodied people and disabled people have routines. People with disabilities and those caring for and working with people with disabilities…