Category: Disabled People
For a wheelchair user, the city of London may seem like a nightmare to navigate. With bustling crowds and plenty of steep steps, getting around London in your wheelchair might seem like an impossible task....
Until the last decade, many young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition were not expected to live into adulthood. Now improvements in medicine and technology have changed all that for children with conditions such...
People with mental health problems and physical disabilities are sharing photos of themselves on social media and declaring that their struggles are a part of them, but don’t define them. Posting photos alongside the hashtags #disabodyposi and #mentalhealthposi,...
Three quarters of wheelchair users and their families and carers can’t travel as independently as they would like to and two in three do not feel confident enough to use public transport, according to a...
‘The chance to play a part in turning around the life of a child’ – A carers story: I can remember clearly the knock at the front door. A phone call just a few hours...
On July 12th 2015, New York held its first Disability Pride Parade, with a variety of events to bring together people with disabilities and their families and friends. The event was an opportunity to share...