Voices from the Community

Our blog offers stories from the community, updates from the Reeve Foundation, and breaking news on research.

The opinions expressed in these blogs are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Disability Wrongs

The opinions expressed in this blog are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. Read More

Beyond Meds

Many of us, including me, live and die by the medications we take and the operations we undergo. I’m just finishing up a regimen of an antibiotic... Read More

The Disability Paradox Explained

Say, you are an ordinary, non-disabled American, aimlessly wandering through the mall, and you spot a markedly disabled person coming your way. You... Read More

Left Out of the Brouhaha

Do you ever get the feeling that you’re being left out of the national conversation? That no big media story or controversy is ever about the... Read More

Cared For vs. Caregiver

In the last 26 years since I became paralyzed, I have been helped and cared for by a lot of people – my late brother, my own kids, dear, steadfast... Read More

We’re Not There Yet

When CODA walked away with three Academy Awards earlier this year, probably a lot of people, disabled and non-disabled, thought that, finally, the 61... Read More

Before the ADA

I’m sure someone more knowledgeable about the law will soon expand on this matter, but I think it’s understood among disability-rights groups that... Read More

Stay Home and Watch This

If you are like me, you won’t be wandering too far off the farm this summer. I see all those people on TV jampacked into airports and ask, “What are... Read More

Shifting the Narrative

According to a blistering op-ed piece in a recent New York Times, the time has passed for the Baby Boom generation and their elders to get off the... Read More
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The opinions expressed in these blogs are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.