National AccessAbility Week recap

National AccessAbility Week has ended, and what a week it was! On Monday I was in the studio audience of The Social to watch Lindsey Mazza (@thelindseymazza) talk about what kids with disabilities should know, on Tuesday I got to watch Patti Bevilacqua (@fearlesswithms), who I’m a huge fan of, win second place at Speaker Slam, and on Wednesday I was the guest speaker at an Ableism workshop for 25-30 students at Monsignor John Pereyma Catholic Secondary School in Oshawa and got some great feedback.

On Friday, I had my first virtual presentation for the Rick Hansen Foundation School Program, for all the grade 5-8s in the Renfrew County Catholic District School Board, and they estimated that around 900 students attended! 40 classes signed in, and the coordinator from the school board said he’s done a lot of virtual live presentations, and has never seen the chat that active with questions for the speaker, to the point that it was overwhelming LOL. Yay! 🥹

The week was a bit of a whirlwind but also so exciting.Maybe I’ll finally rest a bit in June 🙃💃🏽✨