Disability Horizons

Listen New DH contributor, Nicola (@nickynoona), shares this moving and inspiring article about her son, Max who has Asperger’s Syndrome. My story is about my son Max who is now 12 years old and has Asperger’s Syndrome. Max was born a healthy 7lbs 10oz in the hot summer of 1999. From day one he was [...]

Listen Feel like listening to something new on the radio? Well… we have the pleasure of introducing you to Able Radio! The UK’s first disability radio station! Able Radio is the UK’s only radio station catering for disabled people, broadcasting live full time to the disabled community whose presenters and volunteers all live with disabilities [...]

Listen New DH contributor, Gary William Murning, is a novelist living in the northeast of England. His work, largely mainstream fiction, focuses on themes that touch us all — love, death, loss and aspiration — but always with an eye to finding an unusual angle or viewpoint. Gary kindly shares this insightful and thought provoking [...]

Listen New DH contributor, Imogen May, shares this interesting piece on the effect on changes in welfare legislation will effect the lives of people with disabilities and their ability to live life to the full. Disabled people can be considered incapable of work, creating families or having an active life. However, as a reader of [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-ups of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • New evidence suggests that an insurance giant that could make huge financial gains from government reform of incapacity benefit played a much larger part in influencing those reforms than it previously [...]

Listen Regular DH contributor, Sarah Ismail, shares this fantastic article on Kaliya Franklin. A tireless campaigner for disability rights who has been a pioneer in online campaigning via her blog, The Broken of Britain. Kaliya Franklin’s life hasn’t always been what it is today. Although her disability, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, affected her in childhood, Kaliya [...]

Listen Sarah Levis, a blogger from Canada shares another insightful article about her experience of voluntary work and how it helped in her search to find paid employment. In my last article, I talked about, when looking for work, how it’s just as important for us to give ourselves a chance to do a great [...]

Listen UK Member of Parliament, Dame Anne Begg MP kindly took some time out to chat to Disability Horizons and share her amazing story. Her website perfectly summarises how “Anne was elected the Labour MP for Aberdeen South in 1997, the first permanent wheelchair user to be elected to the House of Commons. Born in 1955 she [...]

Listen Disability Horizons have recently covered a few articles on driving a ‘Wheelchair Adapted Vehicle’ (WAV). This is because in a world when disabled people are pushed out of many modes of public transport due to access, attitudes and financial barriers; a WAV can open up a whole new world. Co-editor Martyn Sibley follows the [...]

Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-ups of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • A disabled woman and her husband who have been found dead in their house had spoken publicly of their struggle to obtain the benefits they needed to survive. • MPs have accused [...]