Our Ability

April 8, 2021

Our Ability Podcast: What is Your Dream Your Team

Our Ability talks to the “Your Dream, Your Team” group! Yourdreamyourteam.com is a website designed to be used by anyone and everyone who cares about the education, career, and financial outcomes of young people who have disabilities. It shows job seekers with disabilities how to turn people they trust into a team that supports them along their career journey and puts them in charge. It has everything they need to manage their team, including recommendations
November 1, 2021

#NDEAM to #NoShave – It’s November 1st 2021

National Disability Employment Awareness Month is always Our Ability Inc.’s biggest and busiest month of the year! Makes perfect sense… What a great month! Every October, we are proud at Our Ability to get back to our roots in video production. NYSID hosts its annual meeting every October, and we serve as the video producers. NYSID presents eight videos to highlight success at their annual meeting: wonderful stories showing great work by individuals with disabilities.
April 11, 2022

Our Ability Podcast: Disability and the Human Experience: NY ABLE and Jenna McClosky

Jenna McClosky the outreach coordinator for New York ABLE. Together we discussed the human experience of disability in relation to financial needs, the New York ABLE account and where we’re going in the next five years The NY ABLE Program is a tax-advantaged savings program for individuals with disabilities and their families to save for their current or long-term needs while maintaining their ability to benefit from federal benefits programs such as SSI, SSDI, and Medicaid. Our
April 18, 2022

Our Ability Podcast: Disability and the Human Experience: Doug Hamlin and Lynne Nicolson | Part 1

In our second episode of disability in the human experience, Doug Hamlin and Lynne Nicolson discuss physical therapy and aging with a disability. Doug Hamlin is an author, former business owner, consultant, and philanthropist. Doug is a quadriplegic from an injury nearly 40 years ago. Lynne is a physiatrist with Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital in Schenectady New York. This is the first of two parts: part one explores the original injury and some of the thoughts towards rehabilitation. In the