Disability Horizons

Listen Hello and welcome to this fourth edition of Disability Horizons! We’re keeping our opening article a little shorter than usual as we have been busy preparing for next month’s big site upgrade. The aim being that from next month onwards, we will have the capacity to publish a greater number of articles on a [...]

Listen Transport for London (“TfL”) who are responsible for managing the London Underground are currently investing billions of pounds to upgrade the network in a process that will continue over the next 10 – 15 years. One of the key aims of the upgrade is to improve the accessibility of the London Underground to all [...]

Listen Sarah Ismail reviews an autobiography titled “One Little Finger” recently published by Malini Chib, an author and leading advocate of disability rights from Mumbai, India about her extraordinary life. Malini Chib’s book, One Little Finger, was first described to me as the autobiography of a woman with a very severe form of Cerebral Palsy. [...]

Listen Disability Horizons was contacted by CNN to distribute this amazing story. It originates from this link and has had lots of positive attention in the US. For decades, Richard St. Denis has advocated for the rights of Americans who, like him, are living with a disability. But the attorney from Colorado saw his life [...]

Listen Disability Horizons co-editor, Martyn, recently left his job at Scope to start his own social enterprise, Sunnier Days. Martyn talks about his journey starting his own business. As I write this article for Disability Horizons I am going through the most extreme of human emotions. Having quite frankly achieved everything I set out to [...]

Listen Pratyush Nalam is  a 17 year old disabled man from Mumbai, India who recently started university at the elite Indian Institute of Technology, an extraordinary accomplishment in India where very few people with disabilities ever go to university. Pratyush kindly provides an insight into the life of a young disabled person living in India. [...]

Listen Journalist – Elizabeth Ransome – and publisher of the blog Inspire, questions whether the word disabled holds more meaning than it should? Stop for a second before you read this article and ask yourself if the typical definition of the word disabled is a correct representation of reality. Some might argue that this is [...]

Listen Adelina Chalmers recently wrote the following article re-published from her blog Promoting Good Practice about the incredible work of Andy Kent and his efforts in trying to train people with disabilities to be mechanics at his garage in Cambridgshire. In October 2010 I was desperately trying to get speakers from big companies in the private [...]

Listen Martin Symons talks about the challenge he undertook in 2009 travelling across England in a specially adapted off road wheelchair. I have a rare condition called Klippel-Feil Syndrome It creates a fusion in the cervical spine. Depending on the area of fusion, there can be related congenital conditions. In my case, I was born [...]