New York City adopts new International Symbol of Accessibility - Boing Boing

New York City adopts new International Symbol of Accessibility - Boing Boing

Did you know there was a NEW disability 'symbol of Accessibility' ?

Great Idea.  

The State of the World’s Children 2013 - Report

The State of the World’s Children 2013 - Report

Looks at Disabled Children UNICEF

Hollywood's Disabled Actors Protest NBC's 'Ironside' Casting - When Is It Their Turn? | TheWrap TV

Hollywood's Disabled Actors Protest NBC's 'Ironside' Casting - When Is It Their Turn? | TheWrap TV

I totally agree.  This 'pretend' disabled actor is an insult to disabled actors.

She's the mum who sparked outrage by saying if her special needs son was a dog, she'd put him down. So is she sorry? Read on... | Mail Online

She's the mum who sparked outrage by saying if her special needs son was a dog, she'd put him down. So is she sorry? Read on... | Mail Online

Very disturbing.  comments welcome

Linda Wootton who had a double heart and lung transplant and died nine days after DWP-Atos stopped her benefits had typed her appeal on an iPad “crying her eyes out” as she lay in hospital bed | Black Triangle Campaign

Linda Wootton who had a double heart and lung transplant and died nine days after DWP-Atos stopped her benefits had typed her appeal on an iPad “crying her eyes out” as she lay in hospital bed | Black Triangle Campaign

UK story.  Unbelievable!

Conference highlights epilepsy stigma - irishhealth.com

Conference highlights epilepsy stigma - irishhealth.com

prejudice, ignorance, fear....equals discrimination...at all levels not just on the 'dating' scene

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Activists demand ‘fight back’ against cuts

TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference: Activists demand ‘fight back’ against cuts

UK Unions fighting for Disabled people. 

DPP urged to explain decisions on rape claims - Independent.ie

DPP urged to explain decisions on rape claims - Independent.ie

Ireland: The victim is learning disabled.  Was this the reason no prosecution. 

Visually Impaired Man Set On Fire In Brighton Street | Same Difference

Visually Impaired Man Set On Fire In Brighton Street | Same Difference

Ye Gods....we live in a very evil world!

RMT Resolution On Stephen SImpson's Murder Passed Unanimously At TUC Disability Conference | RMT London Calling

RMT Resolution On Stephen SImpson's Murder Passed Unanimously At TUC Disability Conference | RMT London Calling

disabled people deserve good competent judges on the bench.  Able to face and understand disability hatred and homophobic attacks.  This sentence for Stephen's simpson's murder was derisory and insulting.  It only increases hate crime not diminishes it.

Disabled woman died after NHS blunders, ombudsman finds | Society | The Guardian

Disabled woman died after NHS blunders, ombudsman finds | Society | The Guardian

When will health providers begin to grasp the reality that disabled people and their families actually WANT THEM TO LIVE!

As a disabled person I am beginning to note the attitude of providers who are NOT pushing out the boat to make my life 'worth living'.

This story is simply one of many repeated throughout the UK and Ireland and I suspect throughout the world.

Mea Maxima Culpa | From Academy Award Winning director, Alex Gibney

Mea Maxima Culpa | From Academy Award Winning director, Alex Gibney

A film that HAS to be seen.  The abuse of Deaf Boys at a deaf school in Wisconsin. The most damning documentary I've ever seen.  an epic of 'Truth Telling & Confrontation' .

It explores the cover up of abuse over decades by the Vatican .  It does not only cover the abuse of the Deaf boys but skilfully documents the machinery of corruption in the Catholic Church which came from the Vatican .

BBC NEWS- ATOS doctor speaks out 16/05/13

BBC NEWS- ATOS doctor speaks out 16/05/13

A doctor who assessed disabled people's 'fitness to work' resigns and tells the truth about ATOS

Wheelchair user docked disability allowance - Irish News, World News & More | The Irish Times - Tue, May 21, 2013

Wheelchair user docked disability allowance - Irish News, World News & More | The Irish Times - Tue, May 21, 2013

Ireland now going down the brutal 'Cameron UK' route.  This is outrageous

YOUTHS Fire Air Weapon At Man With Learning Difficulties

YOUTHS Fire Air Weapon At Man With Learning Difficulties

Scotland

Police praise for woman who tried to help disabled assault victim in Darlington (From Darlington and Stockton Times)

Police praise for woman who tried to help disabled assault victim in Darlington (From Darlington and Stockton Times)

Circulate, those of you in Northern England

Disabled Middlesbrough man attacked at Darlington garage - Updates - Local News - News - Gazette Live

Disabled Middlesbrough man attacked at Darlington garage - Updates - Local News - News - Gazette Live

UK ...nice world we live in!

Two guilty of care abuse - ITV News

Two guilty of care abuse - ITV News

we must be vigilant...watch, see, report

Events and Training | Irish Survivors In Britain

Events and Training | Irish Survivors In Britain

Looks interesting...but is it still going. 

Atos assessments are cruel and unethical says doctor who has resigned | Black Triangle Campaign

Atos assessments are cruel and unethical says doctor who has resigned | Black Triangle Campaign

cruelty in the UK

Disabled and sick people still fighting for justice.  No other group of people have had to fight so hard for basic human rights.  The governments position must be a 'hatred' position. It must infringe human rights.

Book Review: DSM-5 | The Book of Woe | Saving Normal - WSJ.com

Book Review: DSM-5 | The Book of Woe | Saving Normal - WSJ.com


Totally agree!

Accessibility as a human right: empowering persons with disabilities | European Economic and Social Committee

Accessibility as a human right: empowering persons with disabilities | European Economic and Social Committee

I wonder if an Irish delegation is going?  wish I could go..

Academic life and mental illness is not a smooth ride but it can be done | Time To Change

Academic life and mental illness is not a smooth ride but it can be done | Time To Change

A brave account of Bipolar illness

Reporting On Disability Abuse Earns Pulitzer Nod - Disability Scoop

Reporting On Disability Abuse Earns Pulitzer Nod - Disability Scoop

We need our investigative journalists. 

CSW57 and Women with Disabilities | USICD

CSW57 and Women with Disabilities | USICD

really good stuff here. 

Restaurant To Pay After Booting Kids With Rare Disorder - Disability Scoop

Restaurant To Pay After Booting Kids With Rare Disorder - Disability Scoop

They should have been fined more!

Well-Heeled Using People With Disabilities To Dodge Disney Lines - Disability Scoop

Well-Heeled Using People With Disabilities To Dodge Disney Lines - Disability Scoop

This makes my blood boil!

Down syndrome may be reclassed as a low-incident disability - Oireachtas News Updates | The Irish Times - Fri, May 10, 2013

Down syndrome may be reclassed as a low-incident disability - Oireachtas News Updates | The Irish Times - Fri, May 10, 2013

Tearful Gillard brings in disability bill | The Australian

Tearful Gillard brings in disability bill | The Australian

This looks like good news for Australian Disabled people.  Is there something we can learn from here in Ireland

New disability standards 'a landmark' - irishhealth.com

New disability standards 'a landmark' - irishhealth.com

Maybe a 'landmark' but it's taken its time coming!

Inspections of disability services planned - RTÉ News

Inspections of disability services planned - RTÉ News

Good news if the resources back it up

Police to investigate Brewer's remarks in new disability row | This is Cornwall

Police to investigate Brewer's remarks in new disability row | This is Cornwall

A county Councillor in the UK who previously said disabled babies should be 'put down'.  He's now taken his argument to new levels on re-election.  He resigned after the first 'furore'. 

Hope he gets jail this time!

Realising the dream, with a bit of support - Education News | Primary, Secondary & Third Level | The Irish Time - Tue, May 14, 2013

Realising the dream, with a bit of support - Education News | Primary, Secondary & Third Level | The Irish Time - Tue, May 14, 2013

swings and roundabouts -  some good disability news in Ireland but at the other end of the scale no support for older disabled people!

Disability hate crime is at its highest level since records began | News | guardian.co.uk

Disability hate crime is at its highest level since records began | News | guardian.co.uk


I blame the media for their constant references to benefit 'scroungers' and Cameron's disability cuts which gives only one message....disabled people are 'draining the economy'. 

no wonder we are entering a new era of a Nazi - like mentality.

“I had to tell my dad he was going to die, because he wasn’t given a sign language interpreter” | The Limping Chicken

“I had to tell my dad he was going to die, because he wasn’t given a sign language interpreter” | The Limping Chicken

There are some things children should not be asked to do, even if adult.  This is one of them.  Deaf adults deserve privacy, dignity and respect with communication between them and doctors with a proper interpreter.

Sexual assault rife in psychiatric hospitals: report | ABC Radio Australia

Sexual assault rife in psychiatric hospitals: report | ABC Radio Australia

We do not take this seriously enough as we don't believe 'mentally ill' women.  Truth is most women in psychiatric hospitals are there because of male violence!  and then are further abused by male patients or staff.  Research into re-abuse points a definite finger at childhood abuse victims being targeted AGAIN as adult.

My clergy sexual abuse doctorate found that once clergy offenders knew a woman's history they were easy prey!   Same applies in our psy system.

KEEP WOMEN OUT OF THESE PLACES.

Autistic schoolboy in bullying ordeal - Local - The Star

Autistic schoolboy in bullying ordeal - Local - The Star

Are we doing ENOUGH to proect disabled mainstreamed children. NO! if this is anything to go by.  Disgraceful.

Charity ‘unable to respond to FoI requests’ | Irish Examiner

Charity ‘unable to respond to FoI requests’ | Irish Examiner

This worries me!

Man jailed for killing disabled son - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

Man jailed for killing disabled son - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

'Let me end my pregnancy': one woman's plight grips El Salvador | World news | The Observer

'Let me end my pregnancy': one woman's plight grips El Salvador | World news | The Observer

I don't normally argue FOR termination in the case of disabled babies  however THIS argument is different.  the mother's life is threatened because she has Lupus and this is a devastating auto-immune disease.

The decision is hers and I believe she has every right to save her own life!

Disability Rights: Cornish Councillor Colin Brewer Compares Disabled Children To Deformed Lambs

Disability Rights: Cornish Councillor Colin Brewer Compares Disabled Children To Deformed Lambs

this man was re-elected after the storm when he said disabled children should be 'put down' , now he's comparing them to 'deformed' lambs!

he is a disgrace to humanity.  we are certainly moving away from humanity and in the future we will see euthanasia because these messages act at a subliminal level depositing ideas that grow.

'Arrogant' head teacher who assaulted special needs pupils walks free from court - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

'Arrogant' head teacher who assaulted special needs pupils walks free from court - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

you assault two girls with special needs and walk FREE!  Is this justice?

would he have walked free if the girls were NOT 'special needs' pupils.  I doubt it.

Black men less likely to receive follow-up care after positive prostate exam | Hematology Oncology

Black men less likely to receive follow-up care after positive prostate exam | Hematology Oncology

Racist medical care in a country with a black president.  You couldn't make it up.  America is NOT the land of the free.  It's a racist country, still! Barbaric.

Baroness Warnock: Dementia sufferers may have a 'duty to die' - Telegraph

Baroness Warnock: Dementia sufferers may have a 'duty to die' - Telegraph

Where are we heading?  This is so unbelievably gross. 

But I suspect we are killing the elderly anyway...poor care, not feeding them, etc...lives are shortened and under disguise.

No ambulance available for injured child - RTÉ News

No ambulance available for injured child - RTÉ News

We are a third world country...no doubt about it!  Not safe to live here.

Judge says no one can be proud after death of alcoholic who lived in toilet - Independent.ie

Judge says no one can be proud after death of alcoholic who lived in toilet - Independent.ie

We failed this man.  Humanity is lost if we continue to ignore our fellow human beings. 

We must get back to supporting people.
Helping those in trouble.  Reaching out.

Join my blog, become a member & make discussion and comment HAPPEN

Hey folk...come on board, become a member of this blog and get actively discussing.  especially those of us in Ireland where we rarely publically challenge anything around disability! 

News stories from the UK and around the world surely must make us think about what is happening in Ireland

1) we have no hate crime laws against disabled people
2) doesn't seem to be any special help in courts for learning disabled people to give evidence (I might be wrong)
3) cuts to benefits to disabled people increasing isolation, loneliness poverty and an underclass of vulnerable people.
4) we haven't yet ratified the UN convention on the rights of disabled people. (one of only 3 countries in Europe not to)

and so it goes on....

we must discuss and highlight

welcome aboard.

Margaret

Campaigners want to make bullying of people with learning difficulties illegal | 5 News | Channel 5

Campaigners want to make bullying of people with learning difficulties illegal | 5 News | Channel 5

Retired teacher guilty of sexually assaulting pupil with learning difficulties - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo

Retired teacher guilty of sexually assaulting pupil with learning difficulties - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo

Crosby High School teacher Stephen Riley guilty of sex assaults on former student - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo

Crosby High School teacher Stephen Riley guilty of sex assaults on former student - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo

GOOD!

Veteran ‘overwhelmed’ by pledge to fix wheelchair - Latest news - Scotsman.com

Veteran ‘overwhelmed’ by pledge to fix wheelchair - Latest news - Scotsman.com

There's good people in the world but hope the vandals get caught!

RAF veteran housebound after vandals set fire which destroys mobility scooter - News - Eastern Daily Press - Mobile

RAF veteran housebound after vandals set fire which destroys mobility scooter - News - Eastern Daily Press - Mobile

Norfolk UK 

Hope the RAF will replace it.

Three thugs attack disabled cyclist and steal his bicycle | This is Nottingham

Three thugs attack disabled cyclist and steal his bicycle | This is Nottingham

YK: why has it taken so long to put this out publically.  Memories of bystanders will now be vague or forgotten. 

BBC News - Keynsham stand-off: Police shoot suspect in wheelchair

BBC News - Keynsham stand-off: Police shoot suspect in wheelchair

Blaming the victim: disability hate crime : The Lancet

Blaming the victim: disability hate crime : The Lancet

UK

Three in five Scots parents with learning difficulties will have their kids taken into care - Daily Record

Three in five Scots parents with learning difficulties will have their kids taken into care - Daily Record

Scotland:  Many would manage if they had help.  There isn't the WILLINGNESS to let these parents parent.

Disabled man assaulted in Street | This is Somerset

Disabled man assaulted in Street | This is Somerset

UK Story.  Somerset is a rural county.  You would NOT expect this here.  Dreadful.

Police under fire for arresting deaf man for signing | Mail Online

Police under fire for arresting deaf man for signing | Mail Online

UK story....ye Gods we deaf & disabled people have a lot of work to do!!!

GP card plan for long-term illness to be dropped - Health News | Irish Medical News | The Irish Times - Wed, May 08, 2013

GP card plan for long-term illness to be dropped - Health News | Irish Medical News | The Irish Times - Wed, May 08, 2013

great!  this government sold a lie to get elected.  this is what politics is all about

Sick yob who filmed abuse of disabled teen on phone is jailed - Local - Hartlepool Mail

Sick yob who filmed abuse of disabled teen on phone is jailed - Local - Hartlepool Mail

16 months...is that all?  disgraceful  (UK)

Black triangle (badge) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Black triangle (badge) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm going to get black triangle badges made for lapels with Ireland across the top.  To remember disabled people and to highlight how benefit cuts 'kill'

Call for action on hate crime against people with autism - Channel 4 News

Call for action on hate crime against people with autism - Channel 4 News

Murder of autistic man in UK .  Dreadful

Disability First | Disability Hate Crime & Incident Reporting Service

Disability First | Disability Hate Crime & Incident Reporting Service

Great to have this service.  Wish Ireland had one.

BBC News - Armless artist Karipbek Kuyukov 'denied entry' to UK

BBC News - Armless artist Karipbek Kuyukov 'denied entry' to UK

crazy! 

WWYD? - Physically Disabled People Harassed! - YouTube

WWYD? - Physically Disabled People Harassed! - YouTube

WATCH IT!

New capacity law to replace outdated legislation which labels disabled as ‘lunatics’ - Social Affairs & News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Mon, May 06, 2013

New capacity law to replace outdated legislation which labels disabled as ‘lunatics’ - Social Affairs & News from Ireland & Abroad | The Irish Times - Mon, May 06, 2013

about bloody time too!

BBC News - GPs 'flooded' with letter requests due to UK benefit reforms

BBC News - GPs 'flooded' with letter requests due to UK benefit reforms

Leading doctors protest at ‘cruel’ disability assessments ~ Letter | Black Triangle Campaign

Leading doctors protest at ‘cruel’ disability assessments ~ Letter | Black Triangle Campaign

It's wonderful sometimes to see real support in action

Welfare reforms not fit to work ~ Leading doctors protest at ‘cruel’ disability tests | Black Triangle Campaign

Welfare reforms not fit to work ~ Leading doctors protest at ‘cruel’ disability tests | Black Triangle Campaign

This is the fate of disabled people in the UK and also becoming more so in Ireland.  It is a disgrace.

Katharine Welby: 'I got to the point where I just couldn’t bear the thought of living any more' - Telegraph

Katharine Welby: 'I got to the point where I just couldn’t bear the thought of living any more' - Telegraph

terrible thing depression...I know!

Terminally-ill Marie has already decided on way to end her life - Independent.ie

Terminally-ill Marie has already decided on way to end her life - Independent.ie

This is Ireland.  I note how she recognises to quote "it seems they will not give me permission to die but will not help me to live either".  She is referring to all the cut backs to disability help.  She's right!

You can't kill yourself but you can live in misery! 

I'm NOT in favour of euthanasia but the issues Marie raises is painfully true.

Spinal Cord Injury and Paralysis Community

Spinal Cord Injury and Paralysis Community

interesting site

Disability at university: see the world through my eyes | Education | guardian.co.uk

Disability at university: see the world through my eyes | Education | guardian.co.uk

One in four disabled rail passengers has suffered a hate crime or abuse, poll reveals | Disability Magazine | Able Magazine

One in four disabled rail passengers has suffered a hate crime or abuse, poll reveals | Disability Magazine | Able Magazine

Very high stats for disabled rail users in UK.  This is a surprise.  I've travelled on the trains in UK in wheelchair and it's been OK.  sometimes rudeness but not 'hate' . 

My Story: Keeping a Secret to Achieve Workforce Inclusion | Disability.Blog

My Story: Keeping a Secret to Achieve Workforce Inclusion | Disability.Blog

Ireland's New Quality Mark for Disability Access | ENAT

Ireland's New Quality Mark for Disability Access | ENAT

have a holiday in ireland

European Commission's "EDEN Awards" will Support Accessible Tourism Destinations in Europe | ENAT

European Commission's "EDEN Awards" will Support Accessible Tourism Destinations in Europe | ENAT

lets go on holidays....yeh...lets!

BBC News - Local election 2013: 'Put disabled down' councillor re-elected in Cornwall

BBC News - Local election 2013: 'Put disabled down' councillor re-elected in Cornwall

A sad day for disabled people in Cornwall.  Knowing your countryfolk endorse this guy must stick in your gullet. 

How could you even ASK him for help with your disabled child or adult relative.

Sticks in my gullet....really does

and you know....people are voting for him because many DO believe disabled children should be 'put down'

frightening

Brain Month - events in Ireland

Upcoming Events (next 90 days) - New Web Site

Watch the video from NAI  - it's appalling in terms of lack of services.