Overcoming Dyslexia, Finding Passion: Piper Otterbein
she was diagnosed with a learning disability. While Piper struggled throughout elementary school, it was not until 7th grade that this disability was identified as dyslexia
List of Success Stories
Para-cyclist Aditya Mehta
inspiring ride from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in 36 days, over a distance of 3,800km in 2013, Mehta is currently undergoing his most adventurous expedition — from Manali to Khardunga La.
We are all designers : John Hockenberry
John Charles Hockenberry is an American journalist and author. A four-time Emmy Award winner and three-time Peabody Award winner, Hockenberry has worked in media since 1980.
Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair
Sue Austin is a multimedia, performance and installation artist. Over an extended period of time her practice has operated as a vehicle to open up a thinking space around the materiality of the wheelchair. This is being used as a metaphor to raise questions about the value of diversity to society through raising the profile of ‘difference’.
One Legged Soccer Player : Nico Calabria
My Disability Doesn’t Define Who I Am – One Legged Soccer Player : Nico Calabria. I think that attitude isn’t specific to having a disability,” Nico says. “It can apply to everything.”
This Girl On A Wheelchair Is Fighting
At first glance Rekha Kumari seems to be just another young woman with special needs. But this 22-year-old possesses unique powers.
Mirakle Couriers – A courier company with a difference
Mirakle Couriers currently is 4 Management Staff and 64 Deaf Employees. Our back office is run by 20 hard working deaf women with learnt-by-doing knowledge in data entry and manipulation, tracking and scanning, sorting and other branch operations.
Artist Suvedha
As 23-year-old APPLIES Artist Suvedha the brush to a canvas, each child, each watch in silence. When she is done, each student try to replicate the strokes. Some do it right, but most do not
No obstacle too big for this Shirur boy : Vitthal Khandekar
The teachers and the staff here make us feel like we are at home. They never let us feel that we are different or not capable of doing certain things
Aravind – most memorable goal in his life yet
Aravind, who studied at Aditya Vidyashram at Villianur, has qualified in the persons with disability reservation list, with the 31st rank.