sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Dec 3, 2009, 6:32 pm
A group of European scientists have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb, and control it by thought. During a month of experimen...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Dec 3, 2009, 3:54 pm
Local authorities that fail to protect the rights of disabled people could face legal action, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said today, announcing an inquiry into disability-related harassm...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Dec 2, 2009, 7:06 pm
A service which provides free care for disabled children could be ended as part of a plan to try to save £5m. Wrexham council believes it could save £31,000 by cutting the Daybreak service, which p...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Dec 2, 2009, 6:49 pm
Susan Boyle has topped the US charts, setting a first-week sales record for a female debut album. Record sales tracker Neilsen SoundScan said I Dreamed A Dream shifted 701,000 copies in the US in its...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Dec 2, 2009, 6:00 pm
This year’s theme is “Making the MDGs Inclusive: empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities around the world”. Around 10% of the world’s population, or 650 mill...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Dec 2, 2009, 4:38 am
A young Londonderry woman with spina bifida has said she won’t go into the city centre on her own again after an attempt was made to steal her handbag. The 23-year-old was in her wheelchair out...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Dec 1, 2009, 8:02 pm
The home secretary has defended his decision to allow the extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon amid criticism from some MPs. Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon, 43, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, i...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Dec 1, 2009, 3:57 pm
BBC Ouch’s 13 Questions for this week were answered by Tim Gebbels, AKA Tom from Cast Offs. I’m linking the interview here for anyone who’s interested in reading it.
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 30, 2009, 4:24 pm
Baby Miller makes his first appearance on screen. He can be seen moving and swallowing – a proud moment for parents-to-be Sian and Brian, and a welcome addition to their baby memorabilia. The ...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 30, 2009, 3:47 pm
A disabled man choked to death after becoming trapped in a mechanical hoist which failed as he was using it to get into bed, an inquest has heard. Michael Powell, 54, who was paralysed in a motorbike...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 30, 2009, 5:25 am
Actress Cara Readle says it is important for disabled people to be seen on stage and screen as it represents real life. The 18-year-old, who has appeared in children’s television series Tracey ...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 28, 2009, 8:20 pm
I hope she’s successful. This would mean true inclusion, and if it’s possible and safe, as it seems to be, then why not? Manchester’s Paralympic cycling champion Sarah Storey has re...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 28, 2009, 6:21 am
Thanks to Crippen.
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 27, 2009, 4:04 pm
The “devastated” lawyers for computer hacker Gary McKinnon are to challenge the home secretary’s decision not to block his extradition to the US. They said they would make a last-di...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 27, 2009, 3:43 pm
Are aliens real? Does the US military think Gary McKinnon knows more than he says? Is there suppressed evidence of reverse-engineered UFO technology and “free energy”? Sounds crazy but th...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 26, 2009, 7:53 pm
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon faces being tried in the US after requests to block his extradition were refused, the Home Office has confirmed. Home Secretary Alan Johnson told Mr McKinnon’s fam...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 26, 2009, 6:32 pm
US scientists are testing a radical new theory that multiple sclerosis (MS) is caused by blockages in the veins that drain the brain. The University of Buffalo team were intrigued by the work of Ital...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 26, 2009, 10:47 am
A very well written article, especially considering she’s an actress. Men in BMWs shouting out “Oi! Desperate Dan!” and complete strangers asking “Does your face make it hard for you to k...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 25, 2009, 6:36 pm
This is terrible. I hope this situation improves very soon. Some children are having to wait so long for wheelchairs that when they finally arrive they are too small, a Welsh assembly committee has b...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 25, 2009, 4:54 am
A six-year-old Scottish boy with a rare muscle condition who travelled more than 300 miles to Derby for treatment is thriving weeks after surgery. Hamish Cumming from Brechin, Angus, suffered from Po...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 23, 2009, 3:56 pm
A seven-year-old girl who suffered severe brain damage due to a medical error during her birth has won a multi-million-pound compensation payout. Rhiannon Pridmore, of Swansea, was diagnosed with tet...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 22, 2009, 6:12 pm
Athletes with intellectual disabilities can once again take part in the Paralympics after an International Paralympic Committee (IPC) vote. They had been banned since it was found that most of Spain&...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 22, 2009, 3:31 pm
Original writing today, just for you, my lovely readers. Enjoy! A Walk Through My World How can you tell me we’re stupid? And say in our eyes the sun cannot shine? If you’ll just take ...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 21, 2009, 1:42 pm
A group of disabled cheerleaders from Peterborough are planning to travel to the US to compete in a major competition. The Unity Superstars need to raise thousands of pounds to attend the 2010 Cheerl...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 20, 2009, 7:24 pm
Talent show discovery Susan Boyle has seen her new album become the biggest CD pre-order in the history of global online retailer Amazon. The West Lothian singer’s debut album, I Dreamed A Drea...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 20, 2009, 6:37 pm
The Royal Bank of Scotland lost its appeal over a ruling that it failed to cater for the wheelchair access needs of a disabled teenager who was awarded £6,500 damages. David Allen, 18, who has muscu...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 20, 2009, 6:27 pm
Thanks to Crippen.
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 20, 2009, 5:06 am
YouTube’s parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 19, 2009, 7:54 pm
A dance artist with epilepsy is to try to induce a seizure on stage – but has been urged to reconsider by a charity. Rita Marcalo has stopped taking her medication ahead of the event at The Bra...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 18, 2009, 6:47 pm
An untried deaf actress has been handed the lead role in a primetime BBC thriller. Genevieve Barr will play deaf teenager Amelia Edwards, who witnesses a murder while staying with relatives in a new ...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 18, 2009, 6:34 pm
Technology should be harnessed better to give the world’s estimated 650 million disabled people improved access to the Internet, experts said here on Tuesday. “One of the fundamental prob...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 18, 2009, 4:32 am
A third of the 18,000 people with autism in Wales have no job and no benefits and are forced to rely on family and friends, says a charity. The National Autistic Society Cymru said the majority wante...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 17, 2009, 6:23 pm
more about “Video: Channel 4 launches Cast Offs d…“, posted with vodpod  
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 17, 2009, 6:00 pm
A family from the Vale of Glamorgan who have a disabled baby daughter are fighting to get a blue badge so they can use a disabled parking space. The assembly government is consulting on a strategy to...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 17, 2009, 5:53 am
Chip giant Intel has shown-off a device designed to give vision-impaired and dyslexic people access to printed text. The device, known as the Reader, captures text and then reads it aloud and display...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 16, 2009, 7:57 pm
Scope suggest: Avoid: The handicapped. Use instead: disabled people. Avoid: Afflicted by, suffers from, victim of. Use instead: has (insert DisAbility) Avoid: Confined to a wheelchair, wheelchair b...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 16, 2009, 7:13 pm
The number of visually impaired adults being abused in Newcastle has risen “dramatically”, according to a charity. Newcastle Society for Blind People said its number of suspected cases of...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 16, 2009, 5:24 am
The parents of a one-year-old girl born with cerebral palsy say medical negligence led to the condition and are calling for compensation. Vicky Higgins and Jimmy Hanson, from Morthoe in north Devon, ...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 16, 2009, 5:21 am
A chief constable has joined an MP and a council chief executive in a challenge to highlight the problems faced by people with disabilities. Ian Arundale, head of Dyfed-Powys Police, took part in B...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 15, 2009, 7:17 pm
Here is a statement from his mother, as printed in the Guardian. The mother who fought an emotional high-court battle with the father of her severely disabled son over the infant’s fate has des...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 15, 2009, 7:03 pm
As the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay marks its fifth anniversary, a charity that has space in the building has attributed part of its success to being based there. Touch Trust has a purpose-...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 15, 2009, 6:56 pm
As England ended the 2007 Rugby World Cup in Paris in defeat, sports commentator Alastair Hignell breathed a sigh of relief – and not at the result. He was bone-tired after a gruelling series o...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 15, 2009, 6:49 pm
Campaigner Debbie Purdy, who won a landmark court victory to have the law on assisted suicide clarified, says the guidelines are still not clear enough. The multiple sclerosis sufferer, 46, from Brad...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 13, 2009, 6:27 pm
Doctors in Iraq’s war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials le...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 13, 2009, 6:15 pm
Thanks to Crippen.
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 13, 2009, 4:00 pm
Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe has “categorically” denied newspaper allegations that he was photographed smoking cannabis. The Daily Mirror published photos believed to be of the sta...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 13, 2009, 11:32 am
This is a guest post by Rumbold, who blogs at Pickled Politics. It was originally posted at Pickled Politics today. Thanks to Rumbold. In 2008 a survey came out claiming that 70% of people would neve...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 13, 2009, 5:25 am
Children with dyslexia find it harder to hear in noisy classrooms than those without the condition, a US study says. Pupils with poor reading skills were also more likely to struggle to retain inform...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 13, 2009, 5:08 am
Sharon Osbourne has apologised to Susan Boyle for suggesting during a radio outburst that she was hit with an “ugly stick”. The former X Factor judge also said Boyle resembled a “ha...
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sarah i. posted an article on Same Difference - Nov 13, 2009, 4:55 am
Despite my wishful thinking, I knew it was unrealistic to expect Mikey to actually even come close to winning the Glasgow North East by election. So I’m pleased to see him come 10th out of 13 ca...
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