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Post-Paralympics 2012 Film: Come As You Are

Lorenzo Belenguer | Posted 19.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: UK, Hasta La Vista, Review, Come as You Are, Film, Disabilities, Reviews, Documentary, Ukfilm, Documentaries, Video, UK Entertainment News
Lorenzo Belenguer

It was a Paralympics where spectators finally started to focus on ability rather than disability, a request many Paralympians have always made. Come As You Are, which will be released in the UK on 7 June, could not have chosen better timing.

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Armless Artist 'Denied Entry To UK Because Fingerprints 'Of Poor Quality'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Anti Nuclear, Nuclear Weapons, Disabilities, Disability Rights, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear, Karipbek Kuyukov, Soviet Union, UK News

An artist and anti-nuclear campaigner who was born without arms has claimed he was refused entry to the UK because he was unable to give fingerprints....

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Meet 'God's Littlest Vampire' Lazarus, The Kitten With A Cleft Palate Who Is Training To Be A Therapy Pet

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK
Read More: Video, Therapy Pets, Kittens, Care for Lazarus, Cindy Chambers, Disabilities, Cleft Palate Kitten, Disabled Pets, Facebook, Lazarus, Lazarus Kitten, University of Tennessee, UK News

A kitten born with a cleft palate, leaving him with the appearance of having no nose is now in training to be a therapy pet. Malnourished and sick...

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Oscar Pistorius: The Fallen Hero Affirmed What I Already Knew

Alex T | Posted 28.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Oscar Pistorius Reeva Steenkamp, Social Change, Inspiration, Disabilities, Paralympics, London Olympics, Oscar Pistorius, Disability, Reeva Steenkamp, Celebrities, UK Universities & Education News
Alex T

The sharpest tragedy in the Pistorius scandal is the death of a young, intelligent woman - Reeva Steenkamp. Yet, the whole episode also threatens to strike a dagger into last year's Olympic legacy. For all that Pistorius did to prove the irrelevance of disability; he is now the blade runner that malfunctioned.

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Channel 4 News Reveals What Life Is Like for Children Affected By Alcohol in the Womb

Cat Mcshane | Posted 20.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Pregnancy, Foster Care, Adoption, Channel 4 News, Alcohol, Health News, Motherhood, Fatherhood, UK Health, Parents, Parenthood, Addiction, Documentaries, Short Film, Film, Illness, Disabilities, Disease, Video, UK Entertainment News
Cat Mcshane

Last night, Channel 4 News aired air a short film I've spent the last five months putting together about Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, or FASD. This is a range of lifelong disabilities that can occur when a mother drinks while their child is in the womb.

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Geoffrey Clark - Some Views Are Best Not Expressed

John L. Adams | Posted 22.02.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: Geoffrey Clark, Disability, Parenting, Families, Disabilities, Politics, Ukip, Relationships, Kent County Council, UK Politics News
John L. Adams

Thankfully Clark wasn't taken seriously by the people of Kent. He failed to get elected and even Ukip gave him the cold shoulder saying he wouldn't have represented the party if he had been successful. I just hope Clark has learned something from this episode and realised how ill-educated his views are.

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Time to Review Treatment of Disabled People

Kelly-Marie Blundell | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Welfare, Equality, Disabled, Welfare Reform, Disabilities, Politics, Lib Dems, Disability, Atos, UK Politics News
Kelly-Marie Blundell

On the final day of protests against government contracted ATOS Healthcare and the Department of Work and Pensions, many people have come together to declare their unhappiness at the current proposals around benefits for the disabled.

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Countdown to 2015: The Race Has Started...and Disabled People Across the World Should Be Among the Winners!

Dominic Haslam | Posted 29.10.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: Opening Ceremony, Paralympics, Disabled, Team GB, Olympic Games, Disabilities, UK Sport News
Dominic Haslam

Given the levels of attention and excitement in the country over the Olympic Games, the Paralympics could easily have been overlooked. Instead it appears to have been embraced with as much enthusiasm as the Olympics. But, with all this, I can't help but wonder what The Games' lasting legacy will be?

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WATCH: Galloway Aplogises For Calling Twitter User A 'Window Licker'

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 29.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: George Galloway, UK Diary, Disability, UK News, Rape, Disabilities, Video, UK Politics News

George Galloway has apologised for offending disabled people after he called another Twitter user a "window licker". In a YouTube video posted on W...

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The Paralympics Human Rights Medal Table

Phil Mulligan | Posted 28.10.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: London 2012, Paralympics, Human Rights, Un, UK Sport, Disabilities, United Nations, UK Impact, Greatest Sporting Moments, UK Sport News
Phil Mulligan

Following such a successful Olympic Games in London, the Paralympics will now place disability on a global podium. But how will the various disability issues rank at these games and which medals should be awarded to them?

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Ending Forced Sterilization of Women and Girls with Disabilities

Shantha Rau Barriga | Posted 09.09.2012 | UK
Read More: Forced Sterilization, Disabilities, Family Planning Summit, Family Planning, UK Impact, London Family Planning Summit, UK News
Shantha Rau Barriga

In many parts of the world, women rely on sterilization voluntarily as one of a range of methods for family planning. However, for other women, including women and girls with disabilities, sterilization is not a choice.

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Gove's Bibles Sent To Blind Students 'Who Can't Even Read Them'

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 08.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Blind, Special Educational Needs, Religion, Braille, UK News, Disabilities, Michael Gove, Christianity, UK Students, Blind Children, Dfe, UK Schools, Slideexpand, UK Universities & Education News

Michael Gove's controversial bibles have racked up yet more headlines after it was claimed copies were sent to blind students - even though they canno...

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Disabled Boy May Be 'Forced' To Travel 70 Miles To School

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 28.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Kingston, Department for Education, UK News, Disabilities, School Transport, UK Students, SEN Pupils, UK Schools, Sen, UK Universities & Education News

A child with special educational needs may be forced to undertake a 70-mile round trip to school because his current school says it can no longer meet...

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Thousands Of Children Wrongly Identified As SEN

PA | Posted 14.07.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: UK News, Disabilities, Social Services, UK Students, Carers, UK Parents, Sen, UK Children, UK Universities & Education News

The numbers of youngsters considered to have Special Educational Needs is likely to be cut after tighter rules will be introduced on which children ar...

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Obesity Should Be Treated Like Cancer – I Don’t Think So!

Fay Sayles | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Benefits, Disability Allowance, Cancer, Obesity, Disabilities, Closer Magazine, Nhs, Health, Britain's Fattest Man, UK Lifestyle News
Fay Sayles

If these people really want help, why don't they begin by helping themselves? Why not have a few meals less per day and switch to spending tax payers money on fruit and vegetables instead of takeaways and cakes!

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Disabled by Society?

Dave Clements | Posted 19.04.2012 | UK
Read More: Paralympics, Paralympic Games, Disabled, Disability, Disabilities, People With Disabilities, Disability Rights, UK News
Dave Clements

I'll be going to the Paralympics in London this summer. I'm really looking forward to it but, if I'm honest, this is as much to do with the fact that I couldn't get a ticket for the 'proper' Olympics.

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Disabled Student Who Could 'Never Walk Again' Collects Degree Unaided

PA | Posted 21.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Graduation, Degree, Manchester University, Wheelchair, Car Crash, Disabilities, UK Universities, UK Students, Criminology, UK Degrees, UK Universities & Education News

A disabled student who was told she would never walk or talk again has taken her first steps to collect her 2:1 degree in criminology. Lauren Thomp...

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BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards - Giving Amazing Teenagers Individuality

Aled Haydn Jones | Posted 10.12.2011 | UK
Read More: Cancer, Young Carers, Disabilities, Bullying, Bravery, Teenagers, BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards, Awards, UK News
Aled Haydn Jones

What makes them Teen Heroes is not that they've just coped with what's happened to them or the people around them, it's that they actively went out and helped others in the process.

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