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The Rollettes: an all-female disabled dance troop empowering women

The Rollettes is a dance troop made up of 8 disabled women, all aiming to change perceptions around disability and…

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Travel & Holidays

How an all-terrain wheelchair can help you achieve personal challenges

All-terrain wheelchair and trike company, Mountain Trike, shares three incredible stories from wheelchair users who have achieved personal goals to…

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Entertainment & Culture

Ali Stroker: we speak to the Tony award-winning disabled actress and singer

Ali Stroker made history by becoming the first actress in a wheelchair to win a Tony Award. Find out about…

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Assistive Tech & Products

The family behind the innovative Trabasack wheelchair lap tray and bag

As many of you will know, at the end of last year we launched a Disability Horizons Shop. But you…

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Entertainment & Culture

Disabled actress Liz Carr set to star in her first Hollywood blockbuster

Disabled actress Liz Car is set to feature in her first Hollywoodd film. She is best known for playing Clarissa…

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Work & Education

Sophie Morgan: how perceptions of disability are changing in Africa

Disability activist and TV personality Sophie Morgan recently visited Africa for disability charity Leonard Cheshire to see how attitudes toward…

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Lifestyle

Strength through adversity for disabled businessman

Disabled businessman Chris always wanted to own his own business. After becoming paralysed at 18, he feared his dreams were…

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Entertainment & Culture

November 2019: unmissable disability-related culture, arts and entertainment

We round up the best disability-related entertainment, art and culture, including tour dates with disabled comedian Lost Voice Guy, new…

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Lifestyle

8 misconceptions about cerebral palsy busted

Wheelchair user Ailsa busts 8 misconceptions about cerebral palsy, from assuming that all people with cerebral palsy are intellectually disabled…

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Lifestyle

My trials and tribulations with manual and electric wheelchairs

Writer and Disability Horizons reader Ailsa has had a number of manual and electric wheelchairs over the years. But it…

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