When an individual is disabled, it affects everyone who shares their life.

FacingDisability.com is a new website for the families of people who are suddenly disabled by spinal-cord injuries. It offers information and support that is designed to help them cope effectively, resiliently and creatively with the changing realities of their lives.

Resources on the Web

Resources on the Web is the section that we completed first. We decided to go ahead and post it, because we figured it was too important to have it wait until the entire site was ready to go.

The Resources section is easy to use, with categories designed to help you find what you need quickly. Website descriptions are written in plain English, and every single listing also contains a section called “Where to Start” to help you navigate your way to the information you want.

We’d love to know how the Resources section is working for you. Please contact us with feedback at info@facingdisability.com.

Site Features

Visitors to the site will be able to watch people who’ve “been there” tell of their personal experiences in the early days right after the injury, and of the common issues and difficult situations that they’ve dealt with as life goes on.

  • Personal Stories A unique component of our website is that it features first-person reports from people candidly sharing their own life experiences. We are currently conducting on-camera interviews with parents, spouses, children, siblings and people with spinal-cord injuries themselves. Hundreds of brief video excerpts from those interviews will ultimately be featured on the website.
  • The Experts Say We’re interviewing top experts in the field and putting their medical information and advice into a question-and-answer format, so you can easily find the information that relates to what you want to know.
  • Forums On-line discussions that focus on the issues that arise when you or someone in your life has a spinal-cord injury.
  • Peer-Counseling Match-Up Make a one-to-one personal connection to someone who has walked in your shoes.