Listen It’s been just over a month since the Paralympic Games and Jonathan Wade, who runs Innovative Minds at Work (which aims to break down barriers faced by disabled people) talks to Disability Horizons about the impact of the Paralympic Games. In my mind there is no doubt about it, the Paralympic Games have shattered [...]
Listen From the very best bits to what you’ve been talking about, we’ve got the Paralympic Games 2012 covered! Just over the halfway point in the Paralympic Games and we’ve had yet another great day of action! Today, rather amusingly, we heard that our #disabilitycelebcrushes hashtag was mentioned on Channel 4′s Breakfast Show. Started by [...]
Listen From the very best bits to what you’ve been talking about, we’ve got the Paralympic Games 2012 covered! Each day this week one of our brilliant Disability Horizons volunteers will be keeping you up to date on Twitter and Facebook as well as giving you a round-up of their highlights from the Paralympics, and [...]
Listen From the very best bits to what you’ve been talking about, we’ve got the Paralympic Games 2012 covered! Saturday the 1st was the day Team DH (i.e. me, Martyn and Liz) hit the Olympic Park in style! We had tickets to watch Wheelchair Basketball as well as a day pass, which allowed us to [...]
Listen From the very best bits to what you’ve been talking about, we’ve got the Paralympic Games 2012 covered! You might have guessed from my Facebook posts and tweets for @DHorizons today that I’m a just little excited about the Paralympics! I’ve never really been particularly interested in sports. In fact, if I’m honest, they usually [...]
Listen From 6th to 9th September, Graeae will be showcasing a new accessible outdoor production called The Garden at the Riverside Terrace, Southbank Centre. We speak to writer, Alex Bulmer, who is partially sighted, about the production and its background. For those of you who haven’t come across Graeae before, it is a fantastic and [...]
Listen Tonight the Paralympic opening ceremony – tipped to be like nothing we have seen before – will signal the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The next eleven days will, undoubtedly, be a fantastic spectacle of top-level competitive sport. Rest assured that Disability Horizons will be reporting on all the action! The Paralympic Games are coming home [...]
Listen In our series of articles about the London Paralympic Games 2012 we talk to you about the Paralympic sports you love. New Disability Horizons contributor and wheelchair user, Sandra Spinks, talks to us about her passion for archery, and how she is shooting for the big time. My name is Sandra and I am 39 [...]
Listen Paralympic athlete, Karni Liddell, recounts her childhood and how her parents (as well as life struggles) have pushed her to achieve not only success as a Paralympian, but to be happy and fulfilled in life. It may seem odd that a person who holds a double degree in communications and has spent 12 years [...]
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 [...]
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