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The app that could change the way autism is diagnosed

Listen Disability Horizons is very excited to publish a new article from Adelina Chalmers. You may remember her last, very popular, article on employment? Adelina returns today to look at Autism and a new way of carrying out diagnosis. What would you do if it took 7 years to get a diagnosis for your health [...]

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CLARITY Employment for Blind People – A sustainable and holistic approach to helping disabled people into employment!

Listen Adelina Chalmers, who publishes a blog called Promoting Good Practice, writes about a fantastic organisation which helps people who are blind into employment. Whilst I was putting together some final details and getting all the partners on board this European project on Roma communities’ education, I got an email from my husband (Ben Chalmers) [...]

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Welcome to Budapest’s Hotel Panda – A hotel run by disabled staff

Listen Adelina Chalmers who publishes a blog called Promoting Good Practice writes about a hotel in Budapest, Hungary that is run by disabled staff. Mentioning Central-Eastern Europe prompts in most people’s minds images from TV news reports of the 1989 revolutions that took place, or even the grizzly blocks of flats of the Communist era; [...]

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Andy’s Kars – The Garage that Repairs Cars and… People’s Lives

Listen Adelina Chalmers recently wrote the following article re-published from her blog Promoting Good Practice about the incredible work of Andy Kent and his efforts in trying to train people with disabilities to be mechanics at his garage in Cambridgshire. In October 2010 I was desperately trying to get speakers from big companies in the private [...]

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