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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The Opportunity in Music

A beautiful story of a boy overcoming obstacles and the selfless father who is giving his all to help his child become all that he can be.

Patrick Hughes is a young man at Univ. of Louisville who was born blind and crippled and yet now plays the piano beautifully as well as "marches" in the Louisville marching band.





Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Service With A Smile

Tim Harris, owner of Tim's Place, is the country's only restaurant owner with Down's Syndrome. 

The joy he gets from serving people good food carries over into his diner's most famous export: hugs! 





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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Forget Normal. Let’s Embrace Adversity

Record breaking athlete Aimme Mullins delivers an outstanding talk that properly redefines the word 'disabled'.

The thesaurus might equate "disabled" with synonyms like "useless" and "mutilated," but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word. Defying these associations, she shows how adversity — in her case, being born without shinbones — actually opens the door for human potential.