Disability Horizons

Listen New Disability Horizons contributors Katherine Carol and Mikelle Learned share their insights into creating a full and prosperous life for those living with ‘disABILITES’ in the 21st Century, using modern technology and building community support, and how the simple act of visualising and realising your goals can help you achieve anything. Light sometimes glows [...]

Listen John Pring, who provides us with our weekly news round-up, has created The List, a breakdown of influential disabled people in modern Britain. And guess who features on the list… dynamic duo and Disability Horizons Co-editors, Martyn Sibely and Srin Madipalli! Here’s how John devised The List. How do you decide whether Baroness [Jane] [...]

Listen As the parent of a child with special needs, you will naturally have concerns over the provisions that are made by a school, or tutor, to accommodate the educational needs of your child. Schools across the UK are expected to follow a series of procedures to ensure that children with special educational needs are [...]

Listen Faiza Siddiqui, who recently wrote the article My sex life after injury, tell us about how her new found disability has been both negative and positive. “The frontal lobes,” my consultant explained, “are what make humans human”. When the car crashed, they were the part of my brain that what was damaged. “That is [...]

Listen Here at Disability Horizons, we’re always keen to see how disability is perceived and what assistance is provided outside of the UK. So we talk to new contributor Molly McPharlin about her experiences of moving to Finland from Scotland with her seven-year-old disabled son. There is still so much good in this world, you [...]

Listen Howard Francis, from Stafford, shares a guest post about the difference a new fully accessible wetroom – fitted for free through a scheme called Impey Cares run by Impey Showers – is making to the life of his daughter Charlotte, who lives with a series of complex disabilities. “The first year of my daughter [...]

Listen With the theme for International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2012 being “removing barriers”, we wanted to speak to Leonard Cheshire Disability about their project, Young Voices, which brings together campaigners from over twenty countries to actively influence government policies by giving disabled people a voice and removing barriers.  The global project Young Voices campaigns for full human rights [...]

Listen Artist Tiffanee Griffiths talks to Disability Horizons about how her invisible disability has affected her work and how something like a small, socially accepted, handshake can have such an impact. My name is Tiffanee Griffiths and I am an artist from the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. I have not always been disabled but I [...]

Listen New Disability Horizons contributor, Anna Trethewey, talks to us about volunteering in China, and how she hopes to support the work over there to enable disabled children. Have any of you every though what it would be like to save a life? The reality is that most people in this position don’t get any [...]

Listen Disabled Motoring UK Trustee, Dan McIntyre, writes about his experience as a disabled volunteer driver during the 2012 London Olympic Games. Let me take you back to 2010. I’m 33 and have been off work on long term sickness for over a year and am not expected to return anytime soon. I’m spending the [...]