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Presenting The Dare to be Different Diverse Ability History Project in schools... finally!!!!

  Hello, everyone! I have a very exciting update for you! In my first blog entry, I shared with you a YouTube video of the ShawTV ``Valley Profile '' about my life. There is a segment in it where I talk about my school inclusion  project called, “Dare to be Different”, where I go into schools, and deliver inclusion workshops about people with diverse abilities. I am proud to say that as of December 13th, my Count Me In business partner Crisanna MacLeod  and I completed  the first phase of that project! It feels  so good to be done!  It has been three long years of hard  work to get to this point. I do not think I have ever committed to a project for that long before! Crisanna and I were definitely in it for the long haul, but it is worth it!  Let me tell you how this amazing project started. From a very young age, I have always wanted to do something where I would be giving back to people who have diverse abilities, like myself, and make a dif...