“We’ll get her taken care of, but he can’t go through the bar with you,” the hostess at a local restaurant told Matt Rosbrugh pointing to his 5-year-old son, Lucas, sitting on his shoulders.

“I’m sorry, but he will be going with us,” Matt snapped back as he made his way down the ramp and through the barroom to his table.
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An army man’s wife, mother of two, a restaurateur with a social cause, a former beauty queen, an accomplished swimmer on the international platform and now a wannabe biker; 38 year-old Deepa Malik wears a multitude of hats and firmly refuses to let any conversation veer to sympathy that her wheelchair status often attracts. Suffering from Arachnoid cyst, Malik lost the use of her legs after three operations that rendered her a paraplegic in 1999.
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New Delhi: Disabled persons comprise six per cent of the population of Delhi.
* A year ago, the Delhi government had announced a social security stipend for disabled persons. To qualify, applicants need to be registered with the Special Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour, for three years.
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Malaysia, PETALING JAYA: Now that she is wheelchair-bound, Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun understands the difficulties faced by disabled persons.

“I am now temporarily disabled. I came in mobility-transport assistance for the disabled.
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Jessie Kierbow was a strikingly low-maintenance baby. She was so good, in fact, that her parents were occasionally uneasy. “She never cried,” said Jessie’s mom, Lisa Kyler. “We couldn’t tell when she was sick, because she didn’t cry. And she was fascinated with the ceiling fan – she could stare at it for hours.”
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David Greenhalgh’s life changed with a limp in his mid-forties. After years of redundant therapy and misdiagnoses, a neurologist diagnosed him with Cervical Spondylosis. “I had an operation to stop things from getting worse. They cut away part of my spinal cord c4 to c7. When I came out of the hospital, I was trapped at home for months. After becoming disabled, my first idea was to compile a general database of disability resources but my hobbies were films and books. Eventually, I made the decision to compile a list of films that involved disabilities.
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