Posted inDISABILITY Education ENVIRONMENT
Come volunteer! Northwest Philadelphia
A neighborhood church hosts an event to connect volunteers with community, social service and environmental organizations in Germantown and Mt. Airy.
Posted inDISABILITY HEALTH Sports
Keep those safety goggles on! prevent eye injury, vision loss
Eye doctor warns power tool users and sports players, observers to always keep safety goggles on to prevent injury to eyes and vision loss.
Posted inDISABILITY Education HEALTH
Thrives despite non-verbal learning disability
It wasn't easy growing up for this educator. When he was about 10 years old, he got diagnosed with a non-verbal learning disability. He was not picking up cues and…
Posted inDISABILITY HEALTH HOBBIES
Bullied in school, took to martial arts
Bullied in school for his shrunken arm disability, this young man lashed out at classmates but when he grew up, channeled his anger into fighting mixed martial arts with a focus on American Kenpo.
Posted inCurrent Affairs DISABILITY INTERNATIONAL
Vet with PTSD dog carries flag on solo walk for fallen comrades
Iraqi war veteran commemorates fallen battalion comrades on Memorial Day with long solo march carrying large US flag accompanied by PTSD therapy German Shepherd dog.
Posted inDISABILITY Education HEARING
Sign Language Students Act Out
Students in an advanced American Sign Language (ASL) class offered by the Deaf-Hearing Communication Center based in Swarthmore, PA took turns acting out and signing the short and apparently humorous…
Posted inANIMALS DISABILITY Elderly
52 paws delight nursing home residents
Marjorie Shoemaker brings her "Paws of the Spirit," to nursing homes and other venues. Her passel of animals include an easygoing white Labrador retriever service dog named Archie who, she…
Posted inDISABILITY Education Elderly
Overcoming paralysis from multiple sclerosis
Minister Betty Jones Alston was paralyzed from the waist down this January due to multiple sclerosis which she was diagnosed with in 1990. She had begun dropping things and attributed…
Posted inBUILDINGS Current Affairs Death
Collapse attorney’s tire collapsed by pothole
Driving my daughter from Chestnut Hill to her job in Roxborough Saturday morning, we passed a man making his way on foot down the steep and treacherously narrow, icy shoulder…
Posted inDISABILITY HEALTH Human body
Therapist eases back pain
The majority of patients who visit Chestnut Hill Hospital’s physical therapy center at the Top of the Hill come in with spine pain- neck or lower back- according to therapist…