Mother Finds Beautiful Way to Better Represent Disabilities in Advertising

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Despite growing diversity in advertisements, Katie Driscoll noticed that people with disabilities are still widely unrepresented

The message was personal for Driscoll, a mother of six from Palos Park, Illinois. Her youngest child and only daughter, Grace, has Down syndrome. "People with disabilities should have the opportunity to be represented," Driscoll told Mashable. "They and their families are consumers as well."

Instead of voicing her thoughts on the soapbox of social media, she took a more proactive approach and snapped her own photographs that better represented children with disabilities. Read more...

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