Month: April 2015
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Lifestyle
Stopping smoking: a challenge with long-term rewards
Kicking that cigarette habit is a tough challenge for a long-term smoker; in fact nicotine is one of the hardest…
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Entertainment & Culture
Accessibility in cinemas: are cinemas playing fair?
In this day and age all cinemas should be accessible for disabled people, right? Emma Purcell investigates to find out…
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Lifestyle
Join the Multiple Sclerosis Society this May, and get baking to beat MS
Over 100,000 people live with multiple sclerosis in the UK. It is a neurological condition for which there is currently…
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Travel & Holidays
Access All Areas: getting around the City of London
As part of our Access All Areas series on accessible tourism, presenter and model Sophie Morgan visits the City of London…
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Relationships & Sex
Disability and sex: fun with firsts
There are landmarks that signpost those key moments in life that everyone will hopefully experience on the road to adulthood.…
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Work & Education
Employment and disability: looking for work
Jane Hatton, who manages Evenbreak, a not-for-profit job board run by disabled people for disabled people, publishes her monthly article…
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Wellbeing & Fitness
Adaptive Adventures: skiing with a disability
Ryan Nell, who has cerebral palsy and uses a power wheelchair, talks to us about his experience of skiing with…
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Assistive Tech & Products
A cup for unsteady hands
When British inventor Chris Peacock learned that a close family member was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he saw his relative…
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Travel & Holidays
Porto and Lisbon: the great, the good, the bad and the annoying
As part of the second stage of his slightly random road trip, Disability Horizons co-editor, Srin Madipalli visited the famous…
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Lifestyle
Disability and life: let’s not get involved in a sea of semantics…!
Rupy Kaur is a young, British Asian, disabled woman, who is very independent and can be feisty when needed (so…
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