disability

  1. Sly Saint

    Civil Service blog - Personal Disability Stories - Kays story (ME sufferer)

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

    Community participation and inclusion: people with disabilities defining their place. Milner, Kelly

    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...
  3. ladycatlover

    BBC1 Doctors 17 April 2019 Storyline about PIP (UK benefit)

    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...
  4. Andy

    Disabled People Against Cuts: Biopsychosocial lobby and right wing media attack #pwme

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

    Steve Topple: The media is waging a coordinated war against chronically ill and disabled people

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

    UK: Blue badge blues

    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...
  7. Andy

    UK: The APPG for Disability are looking for stories of issues with PIP

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

    Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels

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

    BBC disability - I woke up unable to speak English

    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
  10. L

    "All For One" New Disability Documentary by Media Enabled Musketeers

    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...
  11. Kalliope

    NPR: Doctors With Disabilities Push For Culture Change In Medicine

    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...
  12. Webdog

    Brain volume loss is present in Japanese multiple sclerosis patients with no evidence of disease activity (2018) Yokote et al.

    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...
  13. Andy

    UK: Disability benefits (ESA and PIP) - news and updates up to end of 2020

    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/
  14. S

    Experiences with Insurance Companies

    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...
  15. MsUnderstood

    Journalist Requests ME Employment/Disability Stories

    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...
  16. Andy

    Blog: Ill versus disabled – is there a distinction between the two?

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

    Functional Status and Well-Being in People with ME/CFS Compared with People with MS and Healthy Controls (2018) Kingdon and al.

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

    Americans with Disabilities Act under serious attack

    From HuffPost: The GOP Wants To Gut The Americans With Disabilities Act And from NBC News: The GOP's H.R. 620 will gut the Americans With Disabilities Act, pushing disability rights back to 1989 From the NBC News article:
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