Advocating for Greater Accessibility
This coffee break submission comes from Danette Kashawlic, digital marketing associate for Sunrise Medical. “David Daw is an ambassador advocate for MDA [Muscular Dystrophy Association],” Kashawlic said. “He is committed to improving accessibility in everyday environments. Through advocacy and honest storytelling, he highlights the real barriers wheelchair users face while encouraging communities to do better.
“This is a Facebook post from his local county government they had done with him.”
Thanks, Danette!
Robotics Team Highlights Possibilities, Funding Gaps
When Stan Karbowiak, founder and CEO of MyHealthCRM in Vancouver, British Columbia, posted to LinkedIn about a high school robotics team that “built a wheelchair for a toddler who couldn’t afford one,” the story drew both praise for the students’ ingenuity and criticism for health care policies that force this sort of bootstrapping.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t accept this as a feel-good story,” said one commenter. “This is a story about how things have become so awful that paralyzed 2-year-olds whose parents aren’t rich have to go without wheelchairs, unless teenagers jump in where society failed.”
“Let’s be clear,” said another commenter. “This family had to rely on teenagers to fix a problem that adults could not solve.”
Thanks to our own Executive Editor Bob Holly for this submission. Got a social media “coffee break” item to share? Send it to Editor in Chief Laurie Watanabe at [email protected].
