disability

July 2019 Solve ME Webinar: Disability Insurance for ME/CFS Disability Insurance Attorney Andrew Kantor from Kantor & Kantor, LLP joins us to explain the ins and outs of filing for disability under an ERISA (employer-sponsored) Policy when disabled from ME/CFS. Register for the webinar here...

https://civilservice.blog.gov.uk/2019/05/03/personal-disability-stories-10-kays-story/

Paul Milner & Berni Kelly (2009) Community participation and inclusion: people with disabilities defining their place, Disability & Society, 24:1, 47-62, DOI: 10.1080/09687590802535410 Disability‐related public policy currently emphasises reducing the number of people experiencing exclusion...

Warning - this may be a programme that is upsetting for PIP claimants, or those awaiting a PIP assessment. On the other hand, it at least shows you how useless the assessors are. But that's really scary, since then you know how little chance to have to get PIP unless you're ready to go through...

https://dpac.uk.net/2019/03/biopsychosocial-lobby-and-right-wing-media-attack-pwme/

https://mrtopple.com/2019/03/18/the-media-is-waging-a-coordinated-war-against-chronically-ill-and-disabled-people/

Our application for a blue badge has been turned down. My daughter is a bit upset, she had anticipated getting out and about a bit more, she is effectively housebound. I applied on her behalf in autumn, unfortunately a follow up information request went to her spam folder in November. I cleared...

Twitter post from them Email that can be used: Appgsecretariat@disabilityrightsuk.org

http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/5824/4684

interesting story about a woman who was brought up speaking German and English but ability to speak English was badly affected by a cycling accident https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-45804613

Opens tonight in NY. Interview and clips by Democracy Now: "People with disabilities are the largest minority in the United States and in Russia. They are ignored or stereotyped in the media. Media Enabled Musketeers changes that by putting cameras in the hands of people with disabilities and...

This was an interesting and uplifting read, and not before time, I guess. NPR: Doctors With Disabilities Push For Culture Change In Medicine Doctors are often portrayed as pinnacles of health, superhumans responding to emergencies around the clock, performing miracles of all kinds. They're...

Brain volume loss in Multiple Sclerosis patients with no evidence of disease activity predicts future disability. Brain atrophy has recently been recognized as a pivotal biomarker that is closely associated to disability in patients with MS...

Deadline of November 10th 2017 to submit your input to the parliamentary inquiry on PIP and ESA http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/work-and-pensions-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/pip-esa-assessments-17-19/

Moderator note: Please be aware that this thread is not in the Members Only Section and therefore content is available to search engines. I have reported to the Financial Conduct Authority that companies are still including ME in mental health exclusions which goes against all the guidelines...

Justice, finally, for stricken Washington Post reporter by David Beard Here's a short article by a former colleague of Brian Vastag ( @B_V ) published on the Poynter website. Despite its brevity, there are enough links to provide details for the less-informed...

http://inclusionproject.org.uk/social-model/ill-versus-disabled-is-there-a-distinction-between-the-two/

Caroline C. Kingdon, Erinna W. Bowman, Hayley Curran, Luis Nacul, Eliana M. Lacerda https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs41669-018-0071-6