Month: January 2016
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Assistive Tech & Products
Ride into a new world of independence with the Mobility Roadshow 2016
Every year the Mobility Roadshow showcases the latest gadgets and technology aimed at enabling disabled people to be more independent. This year it’s…
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Entertainment & Culture
Audazzle: computer games for blind and visually impaired people
After his daughter Daisy became blind from eye cancer, Selwyn Lloyd wanted to develop something that would enable her, and…
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Lifestyle
Unseen disability: living with a brain injury
Ashley Ruskiewicz is an American writer whose aim is to thrive in life. One of her missions is to educate…
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Entertainment & Culture
New sci-fi novel features a main character with a disability
One of the differences with Synthesis: Weave is that while it’s got a disabled protagonist it’s not a book about…
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Entertainment & Culture
Attitude is Everything: introducing gloves to revolutionise disability and music
People think they know how music should sound and, sadly, how it should look. But disabled musician Kris Haplin has been…
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Entertainment & Culture
Disability and entertainment: fifty shades… of inspiration
Hayleigh Barclay is delighted to join in with Disability Horizons to offer a monthly article on entertainment. Hayleigh has a…
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Lifestyle
Disability and independence: the tricky business of transferring
Frances Leckie, editor of Independent Living, looks at some of the challenges around transferring and personal dignity. #DHgurus My day…
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Lifestyle
Disability and fashion: a spashionista’s guide to shopping
My name is Alicia Searcy, also known as Nashville’s disabled style blogger extraordinaire, the Spashionista (short for Spastic Fashionista). I…
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Travel & Holidays
Disability and accessible tourism: the accessible tourism dilemma
The Bimblers describe themselves as the UK’s most unlikely travel bloggers. Rob together with his partner Bridget travel in a…
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Lifestyle
I’m disabled and I wear make-up, so what?
Blogger Sarah, who writes about beauty, lifestyle and living with chronic pain, shares her post on the comments and double…
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