Listen Here at Disability Horizons, we regularly keep an eye out for any new gizmos, gadgets and apps that might help disabled people in their quest for greater independence. As part of our regular “Useful gizmos and gadgets” series, co-editor Srin Madipalli talks about his experience of using a brand new app for finding taxis [...]
Listen Disability Horizons is very excited to publish a new article from Adelina Chalmers. You may remember her last, very popular, article on employment? Adelina returns today to look at Autism and a new way of carrying out diagnosis. What would you do if it took 7 years to get a diagnosis for your health [...]
Listen Peter Henry writes this great article following on from reading about the business ambitions of a man with a spinal injury. Henry explains why he is delighted to report that he is not alone in pursuing business goals with a disability. I left hospital in 1987 following 7 months in Stoke Mandeville Hospital after [...]
Listen Here at Disability Horizons we like to try out and showcase everything (and we mean everything!). Today we are glad to publish Kary Wright’s experiences of adaptive fishing. We very much liked Kary’s relaxed and engaging style of sharing this hobby that is as old as time itself. “So do you want to go [...]
Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • The knock-on effects of the government’s huge cuts to spending on disability living allowance could wipe out every penny of the savings it is hoping for, according to a new report. [...]
Listen In December 2010, producer Alice Driver created the first theatre project to help wounded, injured and sick (WIS) service personnel. With the help of a partnership between the Theatre Royal Haymarket Masterclass Trust and The Royal British Legion, they went on to form the Bravo 22 Company and produce the play The Two Worlds [...]
Listen New Disability Horizons contributor, Matt Padmore, tells us of his love of football and how a stroke (which left him reliant on a wheelchair) hasn’t stopped his desire to be part of the action at the football grounds. I’m Matt Padmore and I’m a 40-year-old wheelchair user, although I haven’t always been. After a [...]
Listen In the second of our Nokia Accessibility technology series, Co-Editor Srin Madipalli tests out the Thera-Vital exercise bike, the latest in technology enabling people with mobility limitations to exercise. When it comes to exercise and fitness, I’ll be the first to confess that I procrastinate, dither and make any excuse to avoid having to do anything. [...]
Listen History will be made this weekend when Andy Gardiner and four others become the first wheelchair users to take part in the main field of the London Marathon. New Disability Horizons writer, Simon Webb, catches up with Andy before the big day to find out a bit more about the incredible challenge that lies [...]
Listen In the second of our “Ask the readers” series of articles, we share with you some relationship-related questions that readers have sent in. If you can assist with any of the questions posed in this post, please use the comments section at the bottom of this article. If you have a practical issue or [...]
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