Month: May 2016
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Travel & Holidays
10 awesome accessible pub restaurants and getaways
To help you plan a day out or few nights away this Bank Holiday Monday or half term, we’ve asked…
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Lifestyle
Disability and fashion: details on wheels… shoes, bags and accessories
Alicia Searcy, also known as Nashville’s disabled style blogger extraordinaire, the Spashionista (short for Spastic Fashionista), is set on changing the…
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Assistive Tech & Products
Assistive technology: 5 of the coolest gadgets
Assistive technology comes in all shapes and sizes these days. From wheelchairs to mobility scooters and mobile apps to kitchen…
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Entertainment & Culture
Am I disabled or a mutant?
Hayleigh has a Masters in Creative Media Practises and is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.…
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Relationships & Sex
Disability, sex and relationships: considering transitioning gender
In our series on disability, sex and relationships, expert and resident agony aunt Tuppy – who runs Outsiders, a private club…
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Lifestyle
Disability and independence: comfort and independence in the bedroom
Frances Leckie, editor of Independent Living, looks at developments to help with improving comfort and independence in the bedroom. #DHguru…
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Wellbeing & Fitness
Q&A with Paralympian with Ryan Cockbill
Ahead of the Rio 2016 Paralympics, we’ve chatted to Paralympic hopeful Ryan Cockbill about being a Paralympian, target shooting, and…
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Lifestyle
The power of social media for disabled people
There have never been so many different ways to influence decision-making at all levels of society. Social media allows disabled…
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Lifestyle
My Extraordinary Life: an amputee’s story of inspiration
Born without legs and with one arm, Monica Sucha Vickers could easily have given up hope of ever living life…
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Travel & Holidays
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and the travel accommodation lottery
Florence Nightingale’s birthday, 12th May, is International Awareness Day for neuro-endocrine-immune diseases. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sufferer, Juliette Llewellyn, explores the…
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