Disability Pride Month works to end stigma, offer support

Disability Pride Month is celebrated each July and is simply a period dedicated to celebrating those pinch disabilities and each they tin do successful spite of their conditions.

But disabilities are not ever visible — truthful nan Hidden Disabilities Sunflower programme stepped up to make a awesome to help.

“Did you cognize location are … upwards of 900 invisible challenges that tin limit someone’s information aliases accessibility,” said Clare Kumar, nan location head for nan Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program.

The sunflower was chosen because it is simply a subtle measurement to bespeak that a personification whitethorn request immoderate other assistance.

For those pinch invisible disabilities, this tin make nan world of a difference.

“It’s life-changing. To beryllium capable to cognize that you tin spell into a abstraction and that you’re going to beryllium met pinch group who are trained successful knowing what nan sunflower means, and past we’ll connection assistance. So this conception of psychological information and emotion for illustration you beryllium — it’s incredible,” said Kumar.

Elizabeth Tikoyan designed an app called ‘Healp’ to create a organization for those pinch chronic unwellness and disability.

Tikoyan feels organization is nan astir important facet of managing a chronic illness, reminding group they don’t person to look things unsocial and location is still life to unrecorded aft a diagnosis.

“There are group successful this world that are for illustration nan apical of nan creme de la creme of nine that person disabilities. And there’s nary shame successful it. We conscionable request group to know, for illustration you’re not alone. You tin make an astonishing life pinch this.,” said Tikoyan.

Both companies agreed that Disability Pride Month is important to raise consciousness and extremity nan stigma.

“We request much of you to beryllium unfastened truthful that we tin alteration nan cognition of nine and really they spot us. And if we ne'er person you opening up astir your disability, we will ne'er beryllium capable to alteration nan cognition that we each person arsenic a community, ” said Tikoyan.

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“It’s conscionable truthful powerful to displacement our reasoning distant from bias, assumptions, negativity bias, mendacious statement effect, each these things that thief america benignant of capable successful blanks pinch inappropriate assumptions. And it’s helping america really put successful nan pause,” said Kumar.

The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission said successful a connection that disablement is communal and will impact astir each of america astatine immoderate constituent successful our lives.

It added Disability Pride Month is an opportunity to observe nan history, experiences and contributions of persons pinch disabilities. It is besides a clip to beforehand knowing astir disablement issues and raise consciousness astir nan galore barriers group pinch disabilities proceed to face.