I would call myself an able-bodied person, but I recently demonstrated that - as people here often comment - such a thing is only ever a temporary state. I fell over skiing, and ruptured ligaments in both knees. One leg is much worse than the other; I'm currently wearing a rather extravagant-looking brace on the bad leg, and shuffling slowly about ( Read more... )

There's a lot of regulations in the UK about how to treat disabled people. There are a lot of schemes in place, which are supposed to help. I'm curious to find which of these you've found most helpful, if you don't mind sharing ( Read more... )

If you received a pre-course reading list for an MA and it was in the following inaccessible format - poor quality mono image scan of faxed-text pasted as images into a word document...

What subject to you think this MA might be in???

I will put the answer in comments.

Thanks to our own nightengalesknd I'm reading about deep accommodation in this blog post. I like the way this blogger explains that the 'therapy industry' and the 'medical industry' both 'make money from modifying people'. Also, 'isolating out one so-called disability is likely to be impossible or a wrong guess.' Then comes good discussion about how places can ( Read more... )

Hello folks, is there anyone who can recommend a light box for dealing with SAD? I tend to be physically and mentally worse in the winter and could really do with trying anything which might help. The temptation just to buy the cheapest thing is strong, but if it wouldn't work, then it's a pointless waste of money...

At the start of my Blue Badge assessment the Occupational Therapist who was performing my assessment told me that part of the remit was to make any recommendations that could help me with my health and disability as it is easy for people to fall between the cracks. Yippee I thought, this is an excellent idea, it is not always easy to find out what ( Read more... )

I like this.

I like this blog post about taking time off from work, due to chronic illness. The author is an academic, as am I, but much of what phe says would be true in other kinds of work too. How to do a medical leave

For me, the key message in that blog post is that 'medical leave' does not mean 'holiday'.

Here’s my contribution to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2014.

How ablism stopped me learning how to teach against ablismI started training to be a teacher. After a few weeks, I quit the course because of ablism (or disablism - they seem to mean the same thing ( Read more... )

I like this film about something which, shehasathree taught me today, is called Finkelstein's Thought Experiment.