Disability Horizons

Listen Accessible sport and leisure activities are central to Disability Horizons. With that in mind, Martyn and I were recently invited for an afternoon with Calvert Trust Exmoor to try out some adventure of the accessible kind! We set out one cold and miserable London morning not really sure exactly what activities we would be [...]

Listen New Disability Horizons contributor, Conrad Hodgkinson, talks about his website, the Accessible Property Register, which aims to promote accessible home to rent and for sale. In 2003 I made a throwaway remark that was to change the lives of myself and my partner Christine. About that time, we were trying (and failing) to find [...]

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. • Organisers of this summer’s Paralympics opening ceremony have faced heavy criticism after admitting that fewer than 100 of the 3,000 adult volunteers set to take part will be disabled people. • One [...]

Listen In our series of articles about the London Paralympic Games 2012 we talk to you about the Paralympic sports you love. This week, new Disability Horizons contributor, Emma Crees, tells us about her love for sailing and the feeling of freedom it gives her. Sitting in the boat in the middle of the water, [...]

Listen Disability Horizons Co-Editor, Martyn Sibley, discusses his new project – Disability eConference – enabling you to share ideas and experiences to support others. I am excited to launch a new project with you guys today – the Disability eConference! It is a new concept in the disability field! Using web based tools, personal experiences and [...]

Listen Last month, Kirsty Liddard wrote the article Reclaiming our sexual stories for Disability Horizons. Now she talks to us about The Rose Centre for Young People with Disabilities which aims to support young adults with disabilities in expressing themselves sexually. In my last article, I shared with you the importance of disabled people telling [...]

Listen New Disability Horizons contributor, Merry Cross, who currently presents the radio show Make Yourself Heard, shares her thoughts on the perils of shopping with mobility impairments. If I were asked to describe myself, I suppose I would say I am a disability ‘old hand’. I was born with a (particularly rare) impairment, but got [...]

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 Liberal Democrat minister has defended the coalition’s controversial commitment to “remove the bias towards inclusion” in disabled children’s education. • Local authorities have been accused of “burying their heads in the [...]

Listen In our series of articles about the London Paralympic Games 2012 we talk to you about the Paralympic sports you love. Paralympic sport Boccia is one often unheard of outside Paralympic circles. So, this summer, Margo Milne wants to shed light on the sport and encourage other disabled sports fans to take it up. [...]

Listen Presenter Louis Theroux (who explores misunderstood and sometimes controversial subjects by getting up close and personal) recently went to America to film a documentary, Extreme Love, about autism. Here, Disability Horizons contributor Becky Wood (who has an autistic son) tells us what she thought of the BBC show. In the few days before Louis [...]