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Schoolgirl makes animation about disability

Fourteen year-old Tegan Vincent-Cooke has cerebral palsy, she put her story into an animation to help school mates understand her condition. You can read the whole story and view the video over at BBC Ouch! Blog   Read More »

How’s life after university for disabled graduates?

BBC Ouch catches up with three disabled graduates to find out what they have been doing since leaving university. Over the last decade, BBC Ouch has followed the progress of three disabled university students. They kept diaries on campus and we watched as they began a new stage in their education, and as they got to grips with living independently ... Read More »

Brain injury woman publishes diary of steps to recovery

A brain injured mother has written a memoir she can refer to, so that her husband doesn’t have to keep repeating the same stories over and over. Coupled with medical information, she has self-published the book and hopes it will prove a useful resource for others. Faiza Siddiqui, not her real name, was a secondary school physics teacher in Oxford ... Read More »

Hurricane Sandy Bringing Out The Best In People

Two interesting disability stories have emerged from the US and Hurricane Sandy. As New York’s Mayor Bloomberg spoke publically about the superstorm, many onlookers were distracted by his sign language interpreter. Lydia Callis, 30, became an internet sensation overnight when, as the Daily Mail put it, her “larger-than-life facial expressions and Read More »