Year: 2017
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Lifestyle
How one wheelchair-racing athlete is using her notoriety to give back
Team USA wheelchair racer, Arielle Rausin, uses her career to fundraise and support charities that are important to her. Read…
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Lifestyle
Why consider functionality when selecting a clinical assessment
Consider this scenario: you run a landscape company and have recently purchased a brand new lawn mower. It’s a beautiful…
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Travel & Holidays
Accessible Morocco: visiting Essaouira on a mobility scooter
You wouldn’t assume that Morocco is particularly accessible. But Disability Horizons writer Tracey Ebbs, who visited Essaouira on a mobility…
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Lifestyle
Where Can Unpaid Carers Find Support?
An unpaid carer is someone who provides essential care and support to a family member, friend or neighbour. It is…
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Assistive Tech & Products
Canute: a revolutionary affordable Braille e-reader
Canute is a revolutionary affordable Braille e-reader that uses specialist technology to make it easier for blind and partially sighted…
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How to Make Transport Accessible? We need your help!
The government has launched a Draft Transport Accessibility Action Plan, and wants to know what you think. The Draft Transport…
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Lifestyle
Three disabled people who will not let themselves be limited
When some people hear the word ‘disability’, thoughts of limitations come to mind—what a person can’t do, what they used…
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Travel & Holidays
Disability and travel: face your fears head on
We hear from our travel guru Carrie-Ann as she opens up about battling through anxiety issues every time she goes…
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Lifestyle
Supporters Show Care Act Appeal Matters
Last February, the High Court found that Oxfordshire County Council was not in breach of the Care Act 2014 when…
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Entertainment & Culture
Janine Shepherd: a broken body is not a broken person
Former elite athlete and now celebrated author, Janine Shepherd, shares her inspirational story in the best-selling memoir, Defiant: A Broken…
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