The Disability Beat
Guide dogs have helped the visually impaired find a new lease on life for over a hundred years. To those whose lives they have changed, guide dogs are superheroes. Last Friday night, the superheroes were on parade in Curtis Hixon Park as Southeastern Guide Dogs unveiled Tampa’s first seven superhero dog sculptures…
Community Art Event Raises Awareness and Funds for Southeastern Guide Dogs
Creative Loafing Tampa, May 2017
Creative Loafing Tampa, August 2021
“I think if we can make people aware of why people are different, and what might be going on behind the scenes, it might help them be more empathetic towards people who are different from them,” says Msumba. “If they could see the loneliness, if they could see the reasons why someone might be different, maybe that would help them put themselves in [someone else’s] shoes for a change."
Tampa Bay artist Jennifer Msumba spotlights neurodiversity and empathy in new film
Autistic Teen Thrives as Pinellas County Center for the Arts Piano Major
Arts Coast Magazine, February 2021
German Language Instructor Bozena Gasior named her son Milosz after the accomplished Polish-American poet, Czeslaw Milosz. In addition to publishing multiple volumes of poetry, Czeslaw Milosz wrote two novels and a memoir, dissected communism in The Captive Mind and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980.
Milosz Gasior struggles to communicate something as simple as what he did over the weekend…
Arts Coast Magazine, October 2023
You survived high school. Now what?
For students with intellectual disabilities living in Pinellas County, the choices are Pinellas Technical College or Creative Clay. Both options are part of Pinellas County Schools’ Transition Program, which helps students with disabilities transition from school to work…