Columnist Chloe Tear: Are The Needs Of Disabled Students Being Fully Met?
Education is something many of us take for granted. We start around the age of five and are set free in our late teens. For people like myself who cho…
Education is something many of us take for granted. We start around the age of five and are set free in our late teens. For people like myself who cho…
For so long I was just watching the world pass me by. From a really young age I just felt like no one understood me, except for my close family, aka m…
In 2012 I left home to study English literature at university, but little did I know just how much my time away would impact life outside of my studie…
Tuesday 2nd April, Autism Awareness Day can be interrupted in lots of different ways. For me, I think it is an opportunity for the wider public to lea…
Barcelona is a city that I dreamed of visiting for such a long time. So it was a great feeling when we packed our suitcases and boarded the plane to s…
I have multiple disabilities including physical, visual as well as autism. I’ve just finished 2 ½ years of work on the autism friendly guide to p…
The term ‘inspiration’ is thrown around with reference to people to look up to or aspire to be like. This could be someone famous or it could even be …
All aspects of life require balancing. This can become more important when you have a disability. From my personal experiences of having mild cerebral…
Confidence is believing in yourself and knowing that you have the skills and ability to do what you set out to do. It’s being yourself and being compl…
Growing up, I was surround by disability, by virtue of living with osteogenesis imperfecta and being around other disabled people in hospital or at sc…
I am 39 years old and I work as a campaigns support officer at learning disability charity, Mencap. I have a husband, a hamster and I’m a Kylie Minogu…
I’m super excited to be a new columnist for Able Magazine. I live in Central Scotland in a small but homely town with my partner and our seven yea…
Is there a more reliable New Year’s tradition than a train price hike? On cue, January saw rail fares rise by 3.1% adding hundreds of pounds to many c…
I was recently checking out what was happening on Facebook when I came across a post about a woman who was sick of being told that she was too good lo…
For many years I was very depressed. What this looked like is whilst I would sound passionate, I would struggle to find the motivation, energy and hea…
Public attitudes can be very negative towards disability, these inclinations, which are so far from reality, can often plant seeds of doubt in the min…
I’m Holly, I’m 23-years-old and I’m blind. I attended mainstream education, graduated University in 2017, I’m an Assistive Technology Officer and a di…