Gaelynn Lea is not here to inspire. The musician has genetic disability Osteogenesis Imperfecta aka Brittle Bone Disease. She discovered her love of music in the fourth grade. “I really wanted to play the cello at the beginning,” Gaelynn shares.…
If he had not had his swimming accident in 1983, Gilbert Tan, 56, says he would probably still be “slogging away at an architectural drawing board in an office somewhere in Singapore.” Trained as a draftsman who designed elevators, glass…
Dave was paralyzed when a hay bale fell from a stack and landed on him. As a working farmer, Dave resolved to continue farming after his accident. “I was thinking of how I was going to do all the tasks…
All of us have talents, but some of us discover our talents after acquiring a disability. Quadriplegic Gilbert Tan, 56, used to design elevators, glass lifts and escalators before a spinal cord injury at 22 years old left him paralysed…
When Carina Ho became paralyzed in a car accident her immediate thought was that she would never be able to pursue her passions of performing music again. Ironically, it was from those tragic moments that her latest solo music project,…
After more than two decades of swimming, Theresa Goh, 30, did not think she would end up to talking to major multinational companies like Facebook and Barclays. Nowadays, when she speaks at events, she is prepared with a slide presentation…
Steph Aiello is a beauty blogger who says that her passion for makeup helped her feel like herself again after she was in a car accident that left her a quadriplegic with limited hand function. She says that the process…
In 2007, Destini and her family were in a car crash while on vacation, and Destini’s injuries resulted in paraplegia. While the teenager admits the initial adjustment period to life with a spinal cord injury was difficult, she has since…
Kaitlyn Dobrow’s instructional videos fuse beauty, skill and her big personality to take the internet by storm. The makeup maven lost all four limbs and more than half of her skin to meningitis at 19. It’s neither the life-threatening illness…
Hallam had just finished his training to be a model when his life took an unexpected turn: he fell from a tree and injured his spinal cord. Initially devastated that his modelling career wouldn’t come to fruition, things began to…