Year: 2012
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Assistive Tech & Products
A disability shared is a disability halved
New Disability Horizons contributor, Irina Parfenova, shares her experiences of living with SMA in Russia and how she hopes her…
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Travel & Holidays
Wings on Wheels adapted holiday to Ecuador
Wings on Wheels operate small, escorted group holidays worldwide for people with mobility problems and other disabilities. This January we…
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Work & Education
Young and disabled? Make sure your voice is heard!
The Young People For Inclusion forum (YPFI) is made up of a group of young disabled people aged 13 to…
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Travel & Holidays
Martyn Sibley: Overcoming my disability to volunteer abroad
Disability Horizons’ Co-Editor Martyn Sibley is heading off on an amazing journey to volunteer in sunny Spain… For my readers…
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Entertainment & Culture
Do you have a disabled hero?
New Disability Horizons contributor, Peter Street, tells us about his new book, “A Kind of Village”, and how this touching…
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Lifestyle
Meanderings of a single disabled woman
Confidence isn’t easy to come by, so it gives us solace to hear how one reader came to realize that…
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Assistive Tech & Products
My4Hands: lending a helping hand to disabled people
New Disability Horizons contributor, Dale Lehn, shares his story of how an unexpected disability encouraged him to create an ingenious…
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Work & Education
Presenting with finesse!
Delivering presentations is becoming a greater aspect of many employment roles and interview processes. As someone with a mobility impairment,…
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Wellbeing & Fitness
Strike for Gold! Q&A with Paralympic athlete Anne-Wafula Strike
Anne-Wafula Strike was born in Mihu, Kenya, and became disabled after suffering with polio at age two. After a childhood…
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Lifestyle
My life after the New Zealand Earthquakes
New Disability Horizons contributor, Hine Moke, tells us how the earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, affected the accessibility of a…
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