Comic Reveals the Difficulties of Navigating the World With Special Needs
A comic strip called "Spinning Our Wheels' explores the difficulties of navigating Chicago with a special needs child.
A brief comic strip called "Spinning Our Wheels," created by Sarah Watts and Lucius Wisniewski, explores the difficulty of navigating Chicago with a special needs child. It's worth a look for those trying to build welcoming cities, because it's easy to take things like accessible businesses, transit, and bathrooms for granted.
"If half a million Chicagoans live with disabilities, why, then, isn't the city more accessible?"
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Published on Friday, March 8, 2019 in
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