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Feb 14: When Belinda Wardlaw (pictured) was 11, doctors told her parents she probably wouldn’t live beyond 16 years.
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Feb 14: An inquiry is being held into how access can be improved at railway stations for disabled people, which campaigners say is "long overdue".
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Feb 14: Elections Canada must make its polling sites accessible to people with disabilities, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal says.
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Feb 03: Schools will no longer be able to refuse to enrol disabled or impaired special needs education pupils under a major shake-up in the sector.
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Feb 01: In April 2009, Angel-blogger Pinky Cuaycong (of Okasaneko Chronicles) wrote:Alphonse has always loved movies, and were it up to him, he would watch the same movie over and over again (on TV monitor) without ever tiring of it.
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Feb 13: MedilinkWM, the industry association for medical technology and healthcare companies in the West Midlands, is organising a free conference to showcase the latest in assistive digital technologies that are specifically designed for use in the home ...
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The four architects behind an Adana mosque currently being built by the Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation are all women.
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For the first seven years of his life, Andrew struggled to tell his mother, Beth Patitucci, when he was hungry or when he wanted to sit on her lap.On an almost daily basis, his family and teachers at school would see Andrew
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PHILIPPINES, Feb 13: In the slums of Manila collecting the rubbish and keeping the streets clean can also be a way to serve the mission of the Church. As demonstrated by the activity of 100 young people from the Parish
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The Dutch government wants to make it easier for people with physical disabilities to use the telephone. Deputy Economic Affairs Minister Frank Heemskerk has announced that proposed changes to the Telecom Act
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RANDOLPH, Mass., Jan 13: Tony DeBlois (pictured) is proving disabilities don't have to limit anyone. DeBlois was blind at birth, weighing less than 2 pounds. He was diagnosed with autism when he was 5. But his mother, Janice DeBlois, witnessed a miracle...
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By summer 2010, Kindle plans to introduce a new menu system that will help individuals who are blind or visually impaired to navigate the device unassisted as well as provide a new super size font. The new menu features will allow blind individuals the ab...
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Ubisoft has joined forces with Handicap International to create a 'serious game', as part of the charity's new campaign "AbilityTogether". The game's objective is to make young and old aware of the difficulties encountered by disabled people on a daily ba...
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Jan 5: About 1,311 people with disabilities in Qingdao obtained jobs in 2009 while another 100 started their own businesses with the help of local authorities, according to the director of disabled people Federation of Qingdao.
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Jan 6: Virginie Lasilier is an elegant, but also determined young French actress on a mission. She wants to help Indonesia's hearing impaired.
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Thai AirAsia on occasion of National Children Day took 40 students with hearing impairment on a Phuket–Bangkok flight....
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Jan 12: Stressing that even illiterate or persons with disability cannot be deprived of their right of suffrage, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has ruled that in the May 10, 2010, fully automated polls, these persons may be assisted in the preparat...
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Jan 11: Work is underway on ’70,000 of improvements to a Paignton beach Torbay Council says the new ’33,500 beach headquarters will offer a valuable service to visitors.
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New Zealand, Jan 13: Most Kiwi youth offenders have a learning disability, and a quarter have suffered a head injury as a child, new research shows.
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Jan 13: Young Polish inventors have designed an innovative vehicle for disabled people.
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