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Farida Bedwei is a Ghanaian software engineer who's launching a new comic book with a super hero who has a disability. Farida, who has cerebral palsy, loved comics as a child, but never saw any characters who looked like her. So she created Karmzah, a no-nonsense warrior whose crutches give…
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'Today we have a better understanding of quality of life. A child's physical function is only a small aspect of their whole quality of life.'
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Child psychiatrist to join Child Development team, lead research program on childhood mental health
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“He said intubating her was a matter of risk versus quality of life. I was like ‘But she has quality of life.’ And he looked at me and goes, ‘Oh, she can walk? And talk?’”
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We got a chance to speak to Rachel about her time in the Get Up and Go Program and what helped her mental health.
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Q&A with newest member of senior leadership team
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n 2014, Maya Wechsler and Greg Masucci made a drastic life change. They moved from a row house off a busy street in Washington, D.C. to a fixer-upper house on 24 acres in Bluemont, Va. They were tired of fighting for a good education for their son Max, now 10, who has autism, and wanted a simpler,…
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It's about reconnecting with 'parts that we've pushed away, forgotten about or avoided.'
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A year-and-a-half ago Sue Robins (with son Aaron) wrote what's become our most read post: The invisible mom. It was about how moms of kid...
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Photos by Storey WilkinsNarges Karbasi can only think of one medical interaction that wasn't helpful when she learned her daughter Lilly ...
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