NextGen ’24

I am focusing on the lack of accessibility of the parking lots in my city. Highlighting where the planners went wrong and what is needed to make it accessible for someone in a wheelchair.

Visual artist, art facilitator and community organiser.

Kitty Tote Kits for Pet Parents + Weekly Meet up Pet Parent Group +Juanita’s Wish Online Web Store and website.

Through public speaking and consulting services, my goal is to spread awareness of chronic illnesses and disabilities as well as encourage increased accessibility and inclusivity for the chronic illness and disabled communities.

Helping those with Vision Loss and Vision Impairment, navigate their campus. A guide to assist with everyday challenges in college life.

Accessible Exercise Application, focused on creating an accessible exercise routine for any disabled or non disabled users.

Captions: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Vs. Human Captioners For Deaf and Hard of hearing Individuals on All Kind of Platforms

Creating a gaming/tech accessibility focused YouTube channel for quadriplegics.

This project explores NHL.com and its discrepancy as it relates to digital accessibility.

Creating a comprehensive guide to navigating undergraduate studies and the pursuit of medical education for neurodiverse applicants in Canada

I want to educate employers on persons with disabilities and make the hiring process easier for neurodivergents. I have studied inclusive hiring policies and inclusivity programs that already exist to see what works and what needs to be improved and formed the draft of a workshop that can award a certificate of inclusivity based on real neurodivergent experience.

I am creating a proposal for a potential investors and/or collaborators. The proposal is for a platform where disabled individuals can discuss and rate third spaces on their accessibility.

Respect the Stall: Join us in making public spaces more inclusive for everyone. Let’s lead the way and spread the word!

I explored how Figma could be redesigned to make it easier for designers to create screen reader-compatible prototypes. This solution would allow visually impaired and blind users to be involved in the design process.

With Kae’s guidance, I used my time with NextGen to carve out a strategy for how I plan to attract opportunities going forwards, based on the information I’ve gained about myself and the kind of lifestyle I want. We did this using Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok as frameworks for how I can brand myself.

making art accessible for everyone

The Blind Date: Connecting the Disabled Way

Minor Hockey resilience coaching from a Team Canada Blind hockey Player

As someone with a disability many miscommunications occur due to a lack of education. My project aims to educate individuals who work in the public the basics about disability .

Accessibility should be inclusive across all sectors of society. Let us strive to improve accessibility and inclusivity in diverse fields, including media production, theatre, entrepreneurship, and technology.

Let’s Make Wheelchairs Affordable

Empowering physically disabled youth through inspiring stories of achievement and resilience in an accessible weekly podcast.

My project, “The Bears” shows how arts and entrepreneurship can create accessible employment and inclusion for artists with disabilities, like me. I painted a series of portraits featuring bears, established a relationship with a local art gallery and will use my growing online platform, The PossAbility Shop, to create and sell artisan products featuring these original artworks.

Shine a light on mental health with Radiate Your Light, a collaboration with Motivate Canada.

Helping Neurodiversity Get the Legal Recognition It Needs: A Way to Improve Access to Justice and Representativity of the Legal Profession

Join me in sparking a conversation about ableism in schools with impactful art pieces/posters that will resonate with viewers.

The Disability in Nature project aims to contribute to the creation of a world where the landscapes of nature include people with disabilities, through an open source digital mapping application that allows people with disabilities to share their stories of interacting with natural spaces.

Disability & Accessibility advocate located in Canada’s Capital City – Content creator with a focus on disability lifestyle, chronic illness community, accessible fashion & more!

A convenient website hosting essential information and resources for Autistic people in Ontario; with the goal of increasing transparency and collaboration among the Autistic community.

My Capstone Project: The Game Design Document for “EMT”: A personal medical survival horror game. Showcasing the support aid characters that have helped me survive through the medical system undiagnosed for the past 22 years and working towards helping others in implementing the game to be used for therapy sessions.

Kootenay Disability Network is a community hub for adults with disabilities to make new connections, promote accessibility, and boost inclusion throughout the Kootenays! Together, we are empowered by inclusion.

Explore Without Limits: ASL Videos and Accessible Trails Make Canada’s Heritage Open to All.

From the Fringes: A project to build a supportive community for individuals with serious mental illness through embroidery. Learning this new skill in a series of workshops will foster connectedness, knowledge-sharing, and wholeness.

I want to make the world a more accessible place for people living with autism. The goal of my project is to educate as many people as possible about the various struggles of autism, as well as to provide strategies and solutions that anyone can utilize.

Vaulting over obstacles and how to give yourself a leg up on life

Striving make Toronto public transit more equitable by introducing a website that showcases a map of elevator outage status across the system – allowing riders to plan ahead proactively instead of reactively.

At Overcoming Chronicles, I strive to encourage you to develop a sense of identity and purpose. Through speaking engagements and social media content, I aim to help you understand that stories, relationships, and self-discovery make life meaningful.

Create a database of websites and other resources that are valuable to the disibility community. Allow other users to submit content that they find helpful.

My capstone project is the publishing of my personal business website, showcasing my seminar catalog, biography, interviews and some of my other content. This website aims to be as accessible as possible, opening the world of disability education, disability related content and much more to more people.

Creating a platform that shows that living in dignity should be our goal individually and nationally. The practice of medical assisted death and celebrating dying in dignity is narcissistic and we must overturn its laws.

To increase the visible representation of disabled individuals working within the legal profession by sharing the stories of the achievements, capabilities, and expertise that people with disabilities bring to the profession, as well as the barriers that they have had to navigate to find success.

My project explores the impact that media and fandom have even with the still present barriers in place.

I am working towards creating a lounge for disabled students at the University of Guelph. The lounge will foster connection amongst disabled students, provide a space for rest, and remove barriers to improve disabled student life on campus.

My project is about sharing about my life so that I can have an impact on people, and especially women and young women’s lives. I’m sharing about finding empowerment and my voice in areas like disability, Christianity, and mental health.

Seeing oneself represented is half the battle to believing you achieve something. My project is a networking style panel event designed to introduce disabled law students, prospective law students and disability rights activists to disabled lawyers.

I’m helping people make music while building a social media platform!

National and regional public policies are often written in complex language or hidden behind dozens of tabs on government websites, making it difficult for autistic Canadians to make informed decisions about our lives. The “Autism Policy Portal” project aims to create a repository of accessible multi-media explainers of policies relevant to autistic people in Canada.

“A View” (2024) is a collection of poetry inspired by my being low-vision and low-hearing, and having a fierce passion for art, the sublime, and phenomena of the body. The manuscript contains over 200 pages of poetry cared meticulously as a meditation on sight, sound, and interrelation.

Fostering Independence, Nurturing Growth— The Child Welfare Bus Pass Stream.

My goal is to make nutrition more accessible to people with disabilities. Read my first blog post, “Cerebral Palsy Nutrition Decoded: Your Comprehensive Guide” at https://jackiesilvernutrition.com/articles/cerebral-palsy-nutrition-decoded/