The Understanding Digital

For years, The Understanding Magazine has been INCIGHT’s most powerful platform for sharing stories that inspire and connect. Now, we’re thrilled to bring you The Understanding Digital — your online hub for everything INCIGHT.

Here, you’ll find the heart of our mission in action:

Changing Hearts & Minds through powerful stories and perspectives
Leveraging Obstacles to reveal resilience and creativity
Unlocking Potential for people of all abilities

The Real B2C, Business to Community

There’s a saying that goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” The real B2C is Business to Community - perspective by JD Duran

CHANGING HEARTS & MINDS

Encouraging Education and Employment

Pia Gilgen, INCIGHT Director of Education, shares the history behind the INCIGHT Scholarship Program and the impact it has made

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

Spotlight on Skill: North Pole Studio Elevates Disabled Artists

North Pole Studio is a popular art studio in Portland Oregon that serves artists with any type of intellectual or developmental disability. Exclusive interview with Davis Wohlford takes you behind the scenes inside the studio and inside the story of how it all got started.

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

Spreading Happiness - An interview with the founders of John's Crazy Socks (Part one)

Do you like socks? John Lee Cronin likes socks. This 29-year-old man with Down syndrome likes them so much that he, along with his dad Mark, made the decision in December of 2016 to start a sock company called “John’s Crazy Socks.”

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

Everyone's A Masterpiece in the Making

Every person is an incredible masterpiece waiting to be discovered. Michelangelo was asked how he created the statue of David from a chunk of marble, and he answered: “I didn't, he was already in there. I just chipped away everything that wasn't David.”

Finding My Voice

Shayna Jones is an INCIGHT scholar and was invited to share her story in The Understanding Digital, which is all about sharing positive disability perspectives. Her story is called "Finding My Voice"

LEVERAGING OBSTACLES

From Skills to Satisfaction: Building a Career That Fits

Key insights included: 1. How self-awareness can guide you toward the right career fit. 2. Ways to identify and use the transferable skills you already have. 3. Tips for showcasing those skills in applications and networking. 4. And how setting small, realistic goals can keep you motivated.

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

What can a student do if their approved accommodations ARE NOT PROVIDED?

IF you are having trouble with responsiveness from a professor, it would be wise to document the incident with an email to the Disability...

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

A Masterpiece In The Making - Up and Coming Artist Kobey Bonin

am honored to share this beautiful story that I have titled “A Masterpiece in the Making”. Yes, it is a story about art, but the true masterpiece in the making is the artist, Kobey Bonin. Kobey’s disability is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He was diagnosed around the age of 12 and got his first wheelchair at 15. Today at the age of 27, he is an inspiration to many throughout the art and disability communities.

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL