disability
One day, I want to just be seen as an artist, not as a differently-abled artist. But right now, I have an opportunity to show people that having a sensory impairment isn’t a life sentence.
Because I can’t mingle and chat in a loud, crowded room, people often call me boring. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
"Today my patient became a doctor for the day," says learning disability nurse Emily Kavanagh.
I didn’t get to choose my mobility impairment, but with rope, I do get to call the shots on how my body feels.
Society prefers I talk about how I overcame my obstacles rather than the injustices I face within a world that is not built around the needs of the disabled community.
Charity Scope said disabled people 'have been routinely forgotten throughout this crisis' and warned that fears around discrimination had caused 'much distress and anxiety'.
Tetraplegic racer Nathalie McGloin wants people with disabilities to experience what it’s like to speed around a track. She founded Spinal Track to let them do just that. After breaked her spine in a car injury when she was at school, McGloin decided she wasn’t going to let her injury stop her from doing whatever she wanted. Now she races a hand-controlled Cayman S in the Porsche Club Championship and Classic Sports Car Club, competing against able-bodied men.
While some people with physical or mental illnesses or disabilities are exempt from wearing face covers, they still fear being shamed for not wearing one.
People with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed and face discrimination in the workplace compared to able-bodied people. It’s facts like this that lead Paralympian Liz Johnson to begin a recruitment company that helps find people with disabilities a job – and help change the often outdated attitudes towards disability in the workplace. Here Liz explains why employers need to make inclusivity a responsibility and not a choice.
At least 250,000 people in the UK are unable to use standard accessible toilets.