Disability Horizons

Listen As part of our “Ask the readers” series of articles, we invite readers to respond to practical questions that members of the Disability Horizons community have posed. 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 [...]

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. • A GP whose patient tried to kill himself after a “fitness for work” test is urging the government to introduce a way to allow doctors to report such cases to the [...]

Listen Jon Bateman is a freelance writer living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was born with spina bifida and regularly writes about his experiences as a person living with a disability. Here Jon shares his views on disability and relationships, and how meeting his fiancé has changed his perceptions of dating with a disability. Three [...]

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 invites readers to share their experiences of the new generation of accessibility applications [...]

Listen Disability Horizons Co-Editor, Martyn Sibley, recently came back from a two month volunteering project in Aviles, Spain with the European Voluntary Service and shares this article reflecting on life abroad. It has been a crazy few months for me! Having left my day job last summer, with plans for new disability projects and for [...]

Listen Naturopath Sue Blain shares a personal viewpoint on how alternative medicines such as Reiki, can not only help ease pain and discomfort from disabilities and long-term illnesses, but also provide emotional support and reassurance. I became involved with Reiki healing, nutrition and homeopathy because these therapies gradually helped me years ago, before Chronic Fatigue [...]

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. • A landmark legal case could help thousands of disabled adults who are not receiving the care and support they need from their local authority. • A senior Labour shadow minister has launched [...]

Listen Following on from our article about the need for books featuring disabled characters, new Disability Horizons contributor, Frank Lambert, tells us how he was inspired to introduce a disabled superhero to the world of fiction and children’s books. “Can you name five disabled superheroes, dad?” My 12 year-old son, Mikey, suddenly asked out of [...]

Listen Pets can be a wonderful addition to your life, especially a service dog. Believing in the healing powers of pets, Daniela Baker shares the benefits of having a service dog. The decision to obtain a service dog should be carefully planned with a good deal of research. Both the needs of the animal and the needs of the [...]

Listen New Disability Horizons contributor, Kirsty Liddiard, an academic currently based at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, who researches disability and sexuality at the university’s School of Disability Studies shares with us an insightful article about the findings of her recently completed PhD research project on disabled peoples’ experiences of sex and intimacy. Through disability rights [...]