Year: 2016
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News
United Nations International Day for Persons with Disabilities: has it been forgotten about in the UK?
This weekend is the United Nations International Day for Persons with Disabilities (UNIDPD), an annual day aimed at raising issues around…
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Entertainment & Culture
I am blind, but I’m no different to anyone else
Singer-songwriter Anne Tello recently teamed up with Lucia, who is blind, to make a cover of Christina Aquilera’s song Beautiful.…
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Work & Education
Disability and employment: using your personality to get a job
Jane Hatton, who manages Evenbreak, a not-for-profit jobs board run by disabled people for disabled people, publishes her bi-monthly article…
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News
How to fix ESA? We need your help!
The government has launched a Green Paper on Work, health and disability, and wants to know how it can do…
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Travel & Holidays
Moving to Japan and travelling with a visual impairment
Alexa Huth, who is visually impaired, is an expat who moved to Japan from the US. She tells us about…
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Travel & Holidays
Determination and courage: the key ingredients for travelling with a disability
After thinking she might never travel outside of her home country of America, wheelchair user Shannon tells us about her…
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Relationships & Sex
Disability, sex and relationships: dealing with frustration
In our series on disability, sex and relationships, expert and resident agony aunt Tuppy – who runs Outsiders, a private…
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