When Dan White’s daughter Emily, who has Spina Bifida, said to him ‘I don’t see wheelchairs on the telly, are they allowed?’ he was devastated.
But rather than letting it get him down, he decided to do something about it and he created The Department of Ability, a comic book gang of superheroes who use their disability as their super powers. Is this the best dad ever?
Dan thinks that disabled children deserve to be represented in the media in a positive way, not, as he puts it, ‘just with sad music playing behind them.’
‘The D.O.A were designed to be as accessible as possible without losing sight of the aim behind their creation.
I noticed that the majority… Read the full story