A full-time carer has set up a website designed to help disabled people to make friends, after discovering there was no similar service offered.
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Not every disabled person wants the responsibilities that direct payments bring. If the system is to work a range of options are needed, says Robin Currie
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Everyone agrees sexuality is an important part of life. But when I told people that my doctoral research focused on the sexual narratives of men with cerebral palsy, it was not uncommon for non-disabled people to ask, “Can they do that?”
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If Academy Awards were given for the greatest lost opportunity, “Million Dollar Baby” would have won them, too.
As anyone who has been paying attention to the ruckus mounted ably and righteously by the disability rights community must now know, the movie climaxes with Frankie, Clint Eastwood’s character, euthanizing the once indomitable Maggie, his boxing protégé, played by Hillary Swank.
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Your five-year-old has been potty trained for two years now, but this week she has had several “accidents”. She also seems to be going to the bathroom more frequently and sometimes has a very strong, painful urge to pee. She tells you it burns when she urinates. These are all sure signs of a bladder infection. Here are some tips for you on how to recognize, treat and prevent bladder infections.
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An admirer of many of ClintEastwood’s films, I found, when interviewinghim some years ago, that he has no resemblance to “Dirty Harry.” Moreover, as a working jazz pianist in his youth, he felt the life force of that music. But in his current success, “Million Dollar Baby,” he is tone deaf to the life force of the disabled as he encourages euthanizing some of them.
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