Costumes to go: Rolling out for Halloween
Halloween is big business and when you use a wheelchair you want your outfit to pack a punch when you go trick-or-treating. In America, Ryan Weimer and his wife Lana, have tapped into that market by providing children with the 3D costumes of their imaginations. Costing between $2,000 and $4,000 each, a team of volunteers spend about 120 hours building the costumes which range from aeroplanes to dr
Breaking the silence at 16 years old with the words 'Hello Mum'
Voiceless in his life so far, a severely disabled 16-year-old is marvelling at being able to speak for the first time after breaking his silence with the words "Hello Mum", using a digital communication aid. James Walker is a rugby fan, likes pop music, lives with his family in Hull and has a girlfriend - Emily. He has a condition which caused hundreds of daily seizures when he was a child. Known
The children living with the world's rarest diseases
Imagine having a disease so rare it doesn't have a name - or even another sufferer. On the rarest of days - 29 February - three families mark Rare Disease Day. It took the Torrances three years to get their youngest son Dylan, now 12, diagnosed with Partial Triplication 15 - a mutation of his 15th chromosome. It is an illness affecting only 19 people globally, and he is the only person to have thi
'My baby would always be a carrier of my disability'
Pregnancy can be stressful at the best of times, but, for women with disabilities, knowing there could be serious complications can make it even more daunting. Beth Whitby knew that pregnancy wasn't going to be easy for her. She has spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) - a degenerative disease which causes muscle weakness - so has always known that if she were able to carry a child it would be complicate
'How I lost my confidence when I lost my face'
When Tammy Saunders lost part of her face her confidence died. But getting back into the world of dating has helped her re-find her self-confidence, she writes. I don't think there is anyone who could honestly say that they are 100% confident. We all have those aspects of our appearance, personality or abilities that cause self-doubt at one time or another. The teenage years are often the worst an
How The Bridge's heroine became a role model for women with autism
Saga Noren from the Scandinavian TV crime drama The Bridge has become an unlikely hero. Widely diagnosed by viewers as being on the autistic spectrum, she is lauded not just because she is a leading character with the condition, but - more unusually - because she is a woman with it. She is blunt, doesn't understand jokes and struggles to build relationships. She strips down to her underwear to get
What makes a disability hate crime?
People stare at Adam Pearson wherever he goes. But when looks and whispers turn more violent, he is left feeling scared. He looks into the issue of disability hate crime in the UK. Living with a facial disfigurement, in a busy city like London, means I am rarely invisible. Even something as simple as a train journey can turn into a gauntlet of stares, pointing and whispers. I have neurofibromatosi
Lizzie Velasquez: 'Online bullies called me the world's ugliest woman'
A woman who was bullied for the way she looks is the focus of a new film that premieres at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas on Saturday. What started as a search for music online - purely homework procrastination - would change Lizzie Velasquez's life. She was 17 when she stumbled across a YouTube video entitled "The World's Ugliest Woman". What she didn't expect was that the woman
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