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Category: Ability

February 28, 2023 Ability / Acceptance / Community stories / Intersectionality

A Place Where Everyone is Celebrated

By: Amanda Forrester Editor: Katie Williams The Living and Learning Enrichment Center in Northville, Michigan, works with teens and young

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February 21, 2023 Ability / Acceptance / Identity

A Seat at the Table

By Alexander Gustanski Editor: Katie Williams and Oliver Hackett Brian Wigman is an honors college professor and counselor working at

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January 2, 2022 Ability / Acceptance / Community stories / Family

Surviving Polio Without Pity

By Allison Ludwig Editor Katie Williams Kathleen Sims is a wife, mother, grandmother and retired nurse but also a polio

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Family of six, two adults, three daughters, and one son, smile in matching Christmas patterned pajamas by Christmas tree. Father holds small dog. Son in the front holds cat.
February 25, 2021 Ability / Family / Healing

Disease Does Not Derail Family

By Chelsea Wiggins Rare diseases are rare in most people’s reality. Many only ever witness them on shows like Grey’s

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Group of 18 students smile, holding deocrated sticks, some dressed in pajamas.
December 12, 2019 Ability / Acceptance / Ethnicity / Family / Gender / Identity / Immigration / Race / Religion

Teachers in Training on Diversity

A Fall 2019 cohort of students in Elementary Education, with an Early Childhood Concentration, completed their last course, EC 3330.

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Man gesticulates while talking and sitting at a desk.
October 9, 2019 Ability / Healing

Waiting for Kidney Health

By Trevor Tyle This story was previously published in the Oakland Post on Sept. 18, 2019. OU alum hopes for

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Black-and-white image of man with hat and backpack going down stairs, behind decorative bars.
October 1, 2019 Ability / Healing

Living with Bipolar Disorder

DJ Terry interviewed Oakland University then-senior, Simon Albaugh, about his experience living with bipolar disorder and how it shows up

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Colored sheets of paper stacked on top of one another
July 2, 2019 Ability / Healing / Identity

AD(H)D (Not) Controlling My Life

Journalism major Marcella Banner on ADD and ADHD – they “are disabling mental health conditions that can ultimately make one

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April 22, 2019 Ability / Acceptance / Healing

Facing MS

Emily Lackey and Andrew Dimmer interviewed Dory Jolin for a writing assignment. Dory’s story speaks of resilience and healing in

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March 25, 2019 Ability / Acceptance / Family / Gender / Identity / Immigration / Race

99 Students

Undergraduate nursing students reflect on diversity in six words. Brown skin boy. White family. Loved. Girls compete. Women uplift one

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