Category Archives: Interactive

Written By Crystal Bermel What Is Independence? To me it is a feeling and an experience. To some independence means moving miles and miles away from one’s family. Or it means to live without help from others. To some it means just that smidge of independence when your parents leave you alone for an extended […]

Written by Shannon LeBrun Bryce Schaufelberger is the manager of www.selfadvocatenet.com and he asked me if I could help out at the self-advocate booth at the Inclusion BC Conference in Victoria last June. The website has so much information and is updated daily with new information and Bryce is very knowledgeable! I learned so much […]

Murder Ball is a game that’s one of the only contact sports for people with divers-abilities. But they couldn’t market or get sponsorship’s for murder ball. So they ended up changing the name to wheelchair rugby. It’s meant as a quad sport, because they are more limited than paras are. Like them, I was always […]

Each year, the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA for short) presents the National Community Radio Conference across Canada and this year it was at Ryerson University in Toronto! When I found out it was going to be there, I immediately applied to go as a member of CiTR, the campus radio station at […]

My name is Roland Swityk, I have Down Syndrome, and I’ve lived on my own for a long time. First I moved out to Kiwanis Park Place in Ocean Park. I did my own cooking grocery shopping with some support. The best part about living at Kiwanis Park Place was that I proved to myself […]

A year ago, I was trying to find activities outside of the house. I don’t let my limitations get to me. But my diversability does get in the way at times, and limits me to what I can do. I am extreme when it comes to living my life, and when I say extreme, I […]

  By: Chantal Martin (Port Coquitlam B.C.)   When I think of art, I think of the word happy. That’s because art has brought me a lot of joy in my life. When I create art, I feel calm and relaxed. When I feel stressed out, I get out my colouring books and it can […]