Drop Zone is on Tuesday, August 13th! Check out this video recap of last year's event featuring ESNS Board Member, Dr. Sarah Moore. Challenge yourself and change lives in support of Nova Scotians living with disabilities this August! Register online at easterseals.akaraisin.com/ui/dropzonehal…

Meet Sarah Moore, one of our rappellers for Drop Zone! Drop Zone is Tuesday, August 13th! To learn more about Drop Zone visit easterseals.akaraisin.com/ui/dropzonehal… Visit Sarah’s fundraising page and donate today at easterseals.akaraisin.com/ui/dropzonehal…

Thanks for a great week in Utrecht Dr Marco van Brussel! It was fun being part of the teaching team again. We had a great group of students in this year's course. Can't wait till next year! Hope to have some Dal students join too! 😍🤩 Dr Tim Takken UMC Utrecht Utrecht University Dal Health

How old should kids be before they're allowed to travel alone? Dr. Mariana Brussoni Dr. Mariana Brussoni talks to Jill Bennett about children's independence, risk-taking, and how these can be affected by adults' perceptions, fears about children's safety globalnews.ca/bc/program/the…

HERE COMES Canadian Paralympic Team 🇨🇦 Led by flag-bearers Patrick Anderson (🏀) and Katarina Roxon (🏊‍♀️) at #Paris2024

It's an honour to be selected to serve as a Director of the Canadian Accessibility Standards Development Organization. Thank you for the warm welcome, Honourable Kamal Khera. Thanks also to Joanne Bernard (she/her) & Laurene Rehman for encouraging me to apply. 🙏 Dal Health HPI MacEachen Institute

August marks the five-year anniversary of the grand opening of the world’s largest bicycle parking garage in Utrecht. During peak times, an average of two bicycles a second are entering and exiting the garage. bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/hap…

"Losing access to outdoor spaces was the biggest challenge for children to be healthy" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39171314/

Join us in supporting 🇨🇦 Paralympic athletes! Purchase a virtual seat for $25 and help IGNITE the Light. Let’s fill our virtual stadium with pride and help raise $1 million! Share your seat and tag #IGNITEtheLight to show your support. 🌟 paralympic.ca/ignite #Paris2024

Our women’s wheelchair basketball team secured a solid 81-49 win over Spain. Well done, team! 🏀💪🇨🇦 Wheelchair Basketball Canada I #WheelchairBasketball #GreatnessMovesUs #CanadianParalympicTeam #TeamCanada #Paris2024 #Paralympics #ParalympicGames

BRONZE FOR LEANNE! 🇨🇦 Leanne Taylor has just captured bronze in the women’s wheelchair triathlon at her very first Paralympic Games! 🥉 The 32-year-old from Winnipeg, Manitoba, has made her mark in Paris, bringing Canada’s medal count to 9. What an incredible debut for

🥉 MEDAL ALERT! 🥉 Austin Smeenk has done it! In his third Paralympics, he’s just sped his way to his first-ever medal—a bronze in the 100m T34! 🥉 Congrats, Austin, on this incredible achievement. We’re honoured to be part of your journey! 🚀 #Paris2024

Equal Play: ParalympicsGB calls for no child to be left on the sidelines youtu.be/fHhW-4WTXnM?si… via YouTube

There's a tension between the Paralympics and disability rights movements. In today's Debrief John Loeppky explores the disconnect from both sides, and suggests how to find common ground. With Rebecca Cokley and Andrea Bundon

Gabby hard at work at our New Leaf Cafe today. Just back from Camp Tidnish and her second day in her new chair from our Wheelchair Recycling Program of Easter Seals Nova Scotia ♿ Gabby has been a past ambassador and we are so proud to support her anyway we can.

Last month we launched the Canadian Neuromuscular Clinical Trial Database to provide reliable details about recruiting and not yet recruiting #neuromuscular clinical trials in Canada! 🍁🔍 Explore the database here: neuromuscularnetwork.ca/pillar-2-clini… CIHR-IMHA Community Muscular Dystrophy Canada #clinicaltrials

Is later maturation in boys associated with lower bone mineral density and a greater risk of bone fractures? Longitudinal data from Sweden would suggest so. 🇸🇪👏🦴🩻onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.13…

Why Canada needs a national disability strategy theconversation.com/why-canada-nee… via The Conversation Canada Mike Lake Azrieli Foundation KBHN PART Committee McMaster University Department of Pediatrics McMaster Children's Hospital CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research

I feel so lucky to be able to support such passionate, talented, caring, and hardworking women. Our ParaPLAY Hub PhD Welcome (back) Dinner was so fabulous. I can't wait to see what this academic year brings, because these women are change makers!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Dal Health Health&HumanPerform

Honoured to have received the Society for the Study of Human Biology’s 2024 Tanner Medal SSHB-StudyHumBio in Porto #SSHB2024