Disability awareness shirts, sweaters, hats, and more use words, sayings or designs to increase visibility and start conversations about disability, accessibility and inclusion. With Diverse Designs, our messages are influenced by lived experience and the everyday conversations happening within our disability communities across Edmonton, Victoria, and Canada.

Sometimes a few words on a shirt can make someone stop, think and see something differently.

You can buy them from us!

Diverse Designs by Diverse Abilities offers disability awareness and inclusion apparel created to start conversations and challenge assumptions. Our designs turn messages into wearable conversation starters focused on supporting the broader work of Diverse Abilities Programs Inc and its movement, #IdealWorld. The clothing is intended for people with disabilities, allies, educators, accessibility advocates, supporters, and anyone who believes more inclusive communities' benefit everyone.

Many of the Diverse Designs messages are relevant to teachers, educational assistants, disability educators, and others working to create more inclusive learning environments. Apparel featuring messages about kindness, assumptions, disability and belonging can provide another way for educators to introduce conversations about inclusion.

Yes, it can be. Advocacy and allyship can include helping make disability, accessibility and inclusion part of everyday conversations.

When choosing disability-related clothing, consider whether the message respects people with disabilities rather than speaking over them, stereotyping or presenting disability as something inspirational simply for existing before purchasing your design.

Our Diverse Designs focuses on messages intended to encourage understanding, inclusion and respectful conversation. So, buy a t-shirt today!

Yes. Diverse Designs is part of Diverse Abilities Programs Inc. Purchases help support a lived-experience-led organization directly supporting the Youth aDAPT program, through education, hands on and a meaningful conversations program.

Words can start conversations.

A message on a shirt may challenge an assumption, challenge a bias, validate someone’s experience or introduce a new concept to someone who has never considered it before.

Diverse Designs turns some of the conversations happening through Diverse Abilities into messages people can carry into our own communities.

Diverse Abilities reviews ideas and suggestion and may consider designing if the message aligns with our mission and vision. Keep an eye on our social media to see suggestions and requests from our community. Or submit your own design idea on our Facebook page for your chance to contribute to our mission... #IdealWorld

Diverse Designs by Diverse Abilities Programs Inc also offers sweatshirts, hats and stickers at the moment. We are continuously adding new content and will be expanding items. Keep checking back for new designs.

Some people identify strongly with disability as part of who they are and use the term disability pride to challenge shame and negative assumptions about disability. Diverse Designs includes messages that recognize disability as part of human diversity while emphasizing ability, independence, accessibility and belonging.

Diverse Designs believes inclusion should include the people wearing our clothing... and that even means they should be the same price across all of our sizes. Available sizes and styles vary by product, with options offered across a range of sizes: small to 5XL. Please check individual product listings for current sizing and fit information.