Kates Inclusion Adventures

Hi everyone, Today, I wanted to advertise an inclusive  children's book about a boy named Nicholas. When Nicholas was eight years old,  he had a scary accident at school, causing him to be in a wheelchair full time and unable to talk because of damage to his brain.  After the accident, the lives of Nicholas and his family were forever changed, as they had to adapt to new challenges; one of them being that some people who had known Nicholas before his accident  sometimes didn’t know how to react to his new living situation. Veronika began to notice this, and it felt strange to her , and she wanted to do something that made people realize that her brother was still the same Nicholas everybody had always known and loved; he just had some new challenges.  Veronika had been volunteering with Special Olympics BC when she heard about the opportunity to participate in a youth engagement  project.  Veronika and her mom were both very excited about the opp...

Hello everyone,  This past Thursday, I was honored to have been invited to present at the annual  Columbia Valley Job Fair and Career Expo.  Theresa Wood, an advisor at The Columbia Valley Chamber of Commerce had invited Tanelle Bolt (the founder of Recreational Adaptive Society) and myself, Inclusion Educator and co-founder of Count Me In, to be speakers on accessibility and inclusion in the workplace. I was excited; not only to be asked to speak, but also that a light was being shed on this important  topic.  Society has started to include and promote a lot of different minority groups in the workforce, which is wonderful, but one of the minority groups that is not thought about is people who have diverse abilities. Employers, like many other people, do not often know what people who have diverse abilities can do in the workplace, or what adaptations can be made to allow them to work.. I was very grateful that people who have diverse abilities   were...