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The end of 2007 saw the ENAT and ICAT conferences on Inclusive Tourism. Early January 2008 will be the SAT conference and may 2008 will see the IIDI Tourismo para Todos conference. At the same time ratification of the UN...

A draft anti-discrimination directive from the European Commission has been criticised by a major disability lobby group for failing to cover technology accessibility standards. The commission’s proposal, ‘Non-discrimination and equal opportunities: a renewed commitment’, deals with discrimination against people on...

A draft anti-discrimination directive from the European Commission has been criticised by a major disability lobby group for failing to cover technology accessibility standards. The commission’s proposal, ‘Non-discrimination and equal opportunities: a renewed commitment’, deals with discrimination against people on...

Wheelchair-bound woman trapped by killer fire
ABC Online, Australia - 31 minutes ago
The Victorian Country Fire Authority (CFA) says a wheelchair-bound woman who died in a house fire with her three-year-old grandson had called the fire ...
Arson squad to examine scene of fatal fire The Age
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Disabled student all set to graduate from IIT-Madras
Times of India, India - 55 minutes ago
In class III, Naresh got his wheelchair. After that his sister began pushing his wheelchair to the school and his friends carried him wherever he wanted to ...

Court: disability laws protect those unable to have sex
Houston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour ago
Most significantly, the DC circuit court ruled for its first time that laws that protect people with disabilities from discrimination cover "sexual ...

BBC News
Fast treatment for strokes urged to prevent disability
Independent, UK - 2 hours ago
By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor Thousands of lives could be saved and thousands more saved from permanent disability if all patients with suspected ...
Thousands of stroke victims to be saved by new treatment guidelines Telegraph.co.uk
Poor stroke care 'still common' BBC News
Thousands of lives saved if stroke action is swift InTheNews.co.uk
The Press Association - Daily Mail
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Change the State's Disability System
WEEK-TV, IL - 2 hours ago
By WEEK Producer Advocates for people with disabilities are calling for monumental changes in the state's disability system. At a townhall meeeting in ...
Plan focuses on increasing support for disabled services WHOI
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Wheelchair games to roll into Omaha
Gateway, NE - 4 hours ago
The event, the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, will be held in Omaha starting this week. Track and field events, quad rugby, swimming, basketball and ...
Largest Wheelchair Event Starts Friday In Omaha KETV.com
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Assurant Employee Benefits Adds to Senior Leadership Team
MarketWatch - 5 hours ago
With more than 24 years of insurance experience, Knott will lead the insurance carrier's Life and Disability teams, as well as its subsidiary, ...

Public invited to cheer on wheelchair veterans
Waverly News, IA - 9 hours ago
Omaha is hosting the 28th National Veterans Wheelchair Games beginning this week. It is the largest annual wheelchair sports competition in the world. ...

The SCOOTER Store Donates Power Wheelchair to Lake Charles Woman ...
MarketWatch - 10 hours ago
pleaded G. Gordon Liddy last week on his radio talk show, after hearing Ellen Hornsby describe her inability to obtain a power wheelchair on a fixed income. ...

Roadshow: Comings, goings of BART
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - 12 hours ago
Unfortunately the agency is not equipped to handle nine wheelchair users on any train, unless they have folding wheelchairs and can sit in a regular seat. ...

A question every child thinks about when they are about 4 most want to be fire-fighters, racing drivers policemen or woman, doctors, nurses or astronauts. What did I want to be? A motorbike driver AKA a courier!

I seem to remember once sitting in the car with my mum dad and my cousin when I was probably 3 or 4 having the what do you want to be when you are older conversation. I remember very vaguely even though I did not say anything at the time having a niggling doubt in my head whether I would be a motorbike driver.

Even then I knew I was different and there where things I could not do. I just hadn't fully worked out what all those things where yet and the impact they would have on my chosen career.

Looking back now it's quite funny to think of me, unbalanced, uncoordinated and partially sighted me wanting to be a motorbike driver.

I have been VI to varying degrees since birth from the very blind to almost getting enough vision (in perfect lighting conditions) to be able to drive, I think at one point I may have been one eye chart line away from that goal. However if someone where to open a curtain or turn the lights off I was completely scuppered!

So ever being a motorbike driver was completely out of the question, along with brain surgeon, microbiologist and tattooist. As I grew up I knew and accepted this.

Skip forward a few years and I was in my final years of secondary school, like everyone else in my year I was put on a computer programme to try and discover my future career path.

I was hopeful it would give me some ideas of possible careers and all the vital info needed. I was told that by going into a menu and ticking a box to say I was VI it would remove some of the blatantly impossible jobs.

So I filled out all 50 of the questions and waited eagerly for my top ten results and was shocked and disappointed to discover that top of the list was game keeper! Closely followed by paramedic, prison officer and various forms of nursing.

I can safely say that I would love to become a paramedic or a nurse, I spent years dreaming of being a P.E teacher but I also know that the risk assessments for those jobs would be horrific! Know one in there right mind would want me to suture up there lacerated head! I am however, because of my Guiding role and Duke of Edinburgh a fully qualified first aider, but that is most defiantly my limit.

Trying to decide on a career is hard enough for most normal's to cope with but when you have a disability just trying to get decent careers advice can be hard enough.

After the whole computer programme fiasco I refused to try it again and instead opted to have an interview with a careers adviser.

The consultation was disastrous, pretty much as soon as I walked in the door I was asked a question along the lines of 'what cant you do?' and the woman seemed to have the view that I should go down a traditional blindy career such as basket weaving or switch board operation, the whole experience was incredibly negative.

I've now settled on journalism having given up on the P.E teaching, physiotherapy, osteopathy and biology ideas for various reasons.

I can't wait to start my journalism degree course in September and I'm really excited that one day I will be a journalist!

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Disaboom Offers Five Tips to Live Forward With Disabilities
MarketWatch - 14 hours ago
www.disaboom.com), the premier online community for people touched by disability. The Disaboom community wants to quash this tragic viewpoint and instead, ...

Minnesota delegation to join other disability rights advocates in DC
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - 15 hours ago
AP WASHINGTON - A delegation of 10 Minnesotans will join other disability rights advocates from across the country for a march and rally today in Washington ...
Delegation of 10 Minnesotans will join nearly 700 disability ... Coon Rapids ECM Publishers
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National Business Review
Greens call for disability issues commission
National Business Review, New Zealand - 19 hours ago
A disability issues commission should be set up to advocate for the disabled and ensure the Government met its legal commitments, the Green Party says. ...

As I prepare to fly to India to deliver a series of workshops on disability to the travel industry the following bulletin came in from the European Blind Union. With such common sense affirmations of the right to travel by...

Telegraph accessability links
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 23 hours ago
Sports watched: Outside wheelchair racing, mostly football and boxing. Although I'm from Croydon, and my nearest team is Crystal Palace, I'm an Arsenal fan. ...

Van Collides With Man in Wheelchair
KREX News Channel 5, CO - Jul 21, 2008
A man is thrown from his wheelchair this afternoon, after he collides with a van. Just after 2-30 today, a man in a wheelchair was trying to cross Highway ...