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Muscular dystrophy has not stopped these gamers from following their passion

Incubation, The Business Place / Disability Connect

These 3 gamers jam video games regularly despite having the same disability; muscular dystrophy (MD), which is a group of diseases that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass. In muscular dystrophy, abnormal genes (mutations) interfere with the production of proteins needed to form healthy muscle. However, these gamers with disabilities didn’t let muscular […]

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The Apps That Are Redefining Accessibility

Assistive Technology, Product Reviews / Disability Connect

For people with disabilities, the digital divide predates the pandemic. But new tools are opening new pathways for participation. Last year, Google introduced a virtual Braille keyboard for Android to allow the visually impaired to read and write on smartphones. When Covid-19 catapulted society into a new age of remote work, school and life, educators, economists, and

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My disability won’t stop me living my life

Disability Spotlight, In Focus, Superhero Day / Disability Connect

14-year-old Nyaluak has been living in a refugee camp in Gambella since the beginning of 2017. She arrived with her mother, three brothers, and four sisters. “When the war broke out in Upper Nile state, everybody was scattered and we became separated from our father,” she says. While on their way to Ethiopia, they journeyed

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My Happy Place

Assistive Technology, Product Reviews / Disability Connect

Eirrace Snead wheeled into her therapy session in pain, something she’d experienced often since sustaining a spinal injury in a car accident two months earlier. But this session on a recent morning at Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, where the 19-year-old is being treated, was different. With the Xbox Adaptive Controller, Snead, an avid gamer,

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Adults With Learning Disabilities in the Workplace

Employee Profile, In the workplace / Disability Connect

Learning disabilities include a range of neurological disorders that impact how an individual’s brain processes information.1 These disorders can affect skills such as reading, writing, speaking, recalling, and reasoning. Prior to special education programs set forth by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), many students with learning disabilities were stigmatized, labeled as “slow,” “mentally

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Zozibini Tunzi styled by Thobeka Mbane and assisted by Julienne M’Poko during a Hayani Creative shoot in 2021

SME Showcase, The Business Place / Disability Connect

Thobeka Mbane is the stylist behind the iconic Elsa Majimbo x Maison Valentino collaboration that wowed the fashion scene in 2021. It was a campaign that had everyone talking. Apart from the social media darling, Elsa, getting her first “big bag” with a luxury brand, it was a big career moment for those behind the

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Kgothatso Montjane’s take on Mzansi’s inclusive policies against the rest of the world

Job Profile / Disability Connect

From a small village in Limpopo to the Australian Open. South African wheelchair tennis super-athlete continues to inspire us. We caught up with her on what she thinks of Mzansi’s inclusive policies against the rest of the world. This is what KG had to say…

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Cape Town based disabled coach leads youth from the streets to the national and global chess stage

In Focus, In the News / Disability Connect

Cape Town based disabled coach leads youth from the streets to the national and global chess stage. A community leader with a disability is making powerful moves in Khayelitsha and is pulling a check-mate position on negative influences for the youth. With a desire to begin a chess academy to help young people veer away

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NOTICE: Public Investment Corporation bursaries available for people living with disabilities

Disability Spotlight / Disability Connect

The Public Investment Corporation SOC Ltd (PIC) is passionate about contributing to the community in which it operates. Improving the lives of people across the board is at the heart of the PIC’s value system. The PIC has a bursary programme that identifies previously disadvantaged learners from designated groups with academic potential who want to

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BIG DREAMS: The indomitable spirit of Caleb Mutombo

Disability Spotlight, In Focus / Disability Connect

Caleb Mutombo was 12 years old when he discovered weightlifting. It became an obsession that would dominate the next decade of his life as he started training intensively and eventually competing in body-building competitions. “My brother and I, we were always talking about our bodies and how we wanted to look nice and build our

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