“The most important thing I’ve learned from being a parent is to put my needs aside and put my family’s first.” Eric Anderson is the father of 3-year-old Miley Love. When he was 18 years old, Eric had a C6 spinal…
Photographer Dennis Ong has always found life to be more educational outside of school. Describing his scholastic performance as being “just good enough to progress to the next stage,” he remembers his childhood as a fun time. “My parents are…
Being a mother certainly has its challenges, but it comes with great triumphs as well. And these constant, contrasting feelings of fear and accomplishment are not at all foreign to this mother with a spinal cord injury (SCI). As a C5-6 complete…
Families of children with disabilities (CWDs) probably know the fear and insecurity that surrounds the first moments when they discover their child’s condition. For many, these doubts may cloud their decision-making. Occupational therapist and life coach Sid Hamid believes that…
“In the realm of disability and family, we talk most often about mothers,” says Donna Thomson, who is the primary caregiver for her son, Nicholas, who has severe cerebral palsy. But lest we not forget the important roles our…
A new change is upon the fashion world. Led by the collaboration between Runway of Dreams and Tommy Hilfiger, a line of adaptive clothing for children is being introduced in mainstream fashion. Mindy Scheier, the founder of Runway of…
Occupational therapist and life coach Sid Hamid knows what it was like to not fit in with his peers, as a kid. “There was one thing that made me stand out differently, in a bad way,” he said. Families of children…
Adam has Osteogenesis Imperfecta, and for the past 5 years, he has been a frequent patron of a bakery near his house. And he usually can be found there with his “tiny entourage in tow” – his two young…
“I hate the word ‘normal.’ [Yet,] if I am being honest, I don’t want to redefine the word ‘normal.’ I am working on redefining myself." Jennifer Senda has cerebral palsy and is a mother, but these traits only make up…
Being misunderstood or discriminated against is something that ‘deafies’ – a slang term that Grace Ng uses for members of her deaf community – deal with persistently. Even though there are well over 5000 deaf people in Singapore, many still face…