If you live anywhere in Canada, you are likely well aware of the housing crisis that is making it difficult for people to make ends meet.
Progress
By: Nikoletta Erdelyi | Fall/Winter 2024
Informed Hope: The Role of Research Advocacy in the SCI Community
Advocacy is a vital practice for individuals living with a spinal cord injury (SCI) that empowers them to influence their own care and the care of the broader SCI community.
Home Improvements
Navigating Accessibility Challenges After a Spinal Cord Injury
Athina Hall
Athina Hall is passionate about health care and wants to make a positive impact on the next generation and help them with some of the medical challenges she has faced. She is a leader in her community and is motivated...
Advancements in Cell Replacement Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury
Cell replacement therapy holds tremendous promise in the realm of regenerative medicine, offering hope for individuals grappling with conditions like spinal cord injury (SCI).
Neuroplasticity: The Key to Functional Recovery
When it comes to a spinal cord injury (SCI), the concept of neuroplasticity takes on a crucial role.
Accessible Housing: The Search for Solutions
Housing in Ontario and across Canada is a critical issue that thousands of activists are voicing their concerns over.
Representing
Sheri Roberts is a vibrant woman with a passion for activating change in her community.
Knowledge is Power: SCI Research Advocacy
After having a spinal cord injury, I don’t think that anyone can argue with the fact that most people, including family and friends, feel a sense of loss.
Essential Needs: Striving for Consistency in SCI Care
Last year, the Essential Needs report was published, touching on the key differences between how each Canadian province handles public coverage for mobility devices, urinary supplies, and attendant services.
Neuromodulation: Epidural Stimulation & Transcutaneous Stimulation
Many of you may have heard of this hot new area of research called neuromodulation and its positive results concerning spinal cord injuries.
Creating Change
SCIO’s Public Policy team has been busy engaging the newly elected government to make our community’s most pressing needs heard. We are continuing to work closely with our team of advocates across the province to...
SCI Research: Cure vs Care – Why the Debate?
Barry Munro explores the need for the SCI community to be involved in all types of research whether the goal is for improved quality of life or restorative measures that bring back function.
Rising Above the Barriers
Seat-elevate and standing wheelchairs can enhance the quality of life of the people using them.
Three great free apps that promote accessibility in Ontario
Innovation + technology meets accessibility.
Why doesn’t the Ontario Government fund home-based lift and transfer devices?
The disability community struggles to acquire the equipment and attendant services needed to live independently.
Advocacy Saves Lives
It's a critical time for advocacy at Spinal Cord Injury Ontario. Joining the movement is more important than ever!
Public Policy Update
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario has dedicated a platform on our website for our community to develop campaigns on systemic barriers that impact their quality of life.
Technology Making Accessibility a Priority
Bell Mobility aims to ensure that the needs of accessibility customers are met by providing special product and service offerings such as assistive devices, mobile devices and accessibility apps.
Research Studies at The Ottawa Hospital Offer Promise and Hope
Dr. Eve Tsai and Dr. Adam Sachs work in very different ways to improve the lives of people with SCI.
PeeforFree inspires action to improve access and affordability of medical supplies
This may seem an odd time to drive a campaign about peeforfree when we are more than ever staying at home, but it's more important than ever.
Re-imagine what’s possible
A beach chair that allows you to wheel through the sand to join your family at a seaside picnic. A drinking system that lets you keep hydrated independently. A crib with a front that swings open so a parent using a...
Opening Doors
Everyone, regardless of their mobility, has benefited from an automatic door. For example, a parent pushing a stroller, or someone carrying groceries definitely appreciates an automatic door.
Assistive Tech: Tecla Opens World of Technology for People with Disabilities
In 2010, Komodo Open Lab created Tecla, an assistive device that helps people with physical disabilities use smart phones, tablets and smart home technology. Using Tecla, people are able to use blinking, blowing or...
Assistive Tech: Novalte
Novalte is a company that specializes in control solutions for people with physical disabilities.
Taking the Guesswork out of Fueling Up
When Niall El-Assaad conceived and developed the fuelService app, it was to solve a very real problem; connecting drivers with mobility disabilities to the gas stations that had confirmed they had the ability to come...
The Power of SCI Research
The elimination of smallpox. The invention of penicillin. The discovery of stem cell therapy. Whatever your top ten list of medical breakthroughs may be, they share one commonality: the leading role of research. In...
Spinal Cord Injury Ontario | Winter 2020
Canadian Paralympic Committee allocates $200,000 in funding for Para sport organizations across Canada
The Canadian Paralympic Committee announced on June 10 it has granted $200,000 in funding through the 2019-20 Paralympic Sport Development Fund to support Para sport programming across the country.
Changing the Relationship between Disability and Technology
There are some exciting new studies taking place on a global scale and we want to let you know what they are. We will continue to follow these research initiatives and bring news about them to you as they develop.
A Nation Rallies for Accessibility
The latest national awareness campaign from the Rick Hansen Foundation is showing Canadians the true meaning of access.
