Stories
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Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
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Disability in the post-pandemic world
Disabled people have suffered more than most during Covid-19, but there is still a chance to build a kinder society. Dolly Sen explores whether we will come together, or allow more brutal disparities to develop in the worsening recession.
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“People see the disability but forget the ability”
I’m a disabled Asian woman, and mother of four. I’m trying to show people that we have to talk about disability if we want things to change.
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Caring for our Disabled daughter in lockdown
Jane Holmes talks about the challenges of caring for her Disabled daughter while working and trying to stay safe during the pandemic.
Catalogue
- Books
Disabled children : a legal handbook.
Broach, SteveDate: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
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Protection of Disabled Children Bill
Date: 1981Reference: SA/NAC/E/4/2/1Part of: National Abortion Campaign- Books
Disabled children : contested caring, 1850-1979 / edited by Anne Borsay and Pamela Dale.
Date: 2012- Books
Disabled children & developing countries / edited by Pam Zinkin, Helen McConachie ; with a foreword by Alfred R. Scherzer.
Date: 1995- Pictures
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Disabled children on crutches: preventing polio in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 755430i