[acb-hsp] [leadership] Fw: New dating website for people with disabilities

[peter altschul]

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Subject: New dating website for people with disabilities



>From a NCIL Newsletter



Weekly Advocacy Monitor

Volume 9, Issue 29 August 10, 2011

New Dating Website for People with Disabilities
For most people, finding love is hard enough.  Now imagine trying 
to do that when you're confined to your house because of a 
disability.  It's a challenge millions of disabled people face 
every day.  But a new website, founded by an Orlando woman, is 
trying to change that.  It's called eDateAbility.com, and it was 
launched in November of 2010.  Less than a year old, the site 
already has nearly 200,000 members across the U.S.

"Dating is difficult enough for people without disabilities," 
said certified matchmaker and eDateAbility.com CEO Ann Robbins.  
"When you compound that with being disabled...  it makes it 
doubly difficult."

Bob Horan, 48, of Tampa knows that only too well.  He'd been 
independent all his life, working as a handy man and suffering 
through back pain.  "I woke up one day in bed paralyzed," he 
recalled.

He lives alone, takes care of himself, and even created a pulley 
system to get his wheelchair down his front steps.  But he needed 
a lot more help to re-enter the dating world.  "I went through a 
variety of sites, and nothing.  [I] frustrated myself, and it's 
very depressing," he recalled.  "I've even asked my friends, 'Why 
is there not a website for disabled people?'  There seems to be 
one for every other perversion out there."

Eventually, he came across eDateAbility.com.  He created a 
profile and listed his disability right on the front page.  And 
that's exactly how he wanted it.  "Well, it allows you to just be 
yourself.  You don't have to twist yourself around," he said.  
Read More  .  
http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/204677/250/New-dating-website-fo
r-people-with-disabilities this is a TV station in FLA with a 
video.


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Susan Chandler
Treasurer CDR (Californians for Disability Rights)
1193 17th Street
Los Osos, CA 93492
805 528-4695
fax 805 528-4697
cell 805 215 3325
http://susanchandlersblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.disabilityrights-cdr.org/
CDR (Californians for Disability Rights): Mission - To Improve 
the Quality of Life for All Persons with any Disability Through 
Education and Training - By Working to Remove Barriers Through 
Advocacy and Change in Public Policy.

Originally organized in 1970 as the California Association of the 
Physically Handicapped- -CAPH--with five members, CDR has grown 
to become an effective and widely respected cross-disability 
advocacy force.



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