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Disability News
High-profile Recognition for Special Olympics GB Partner
National Grid’s partnership and volunteering efforts with Special Olympics Great Britain to help organise and host last summer’s SOGB National Summer G…
Naidex Blows Out 40 Candles and Celebrates Success
Naidex National has closed its doors for another year following its most packed programme to date with celebrity appearances, seminars, networking and …
Get Active … Get Outside and Explore … Get MedicAlert
The MedicAlert Foundation, together with Able Magazine knows the importance of getting out and about, whether it’s some gentle exercise or going explor…
Promoting Equality and Valuing Diversity
We are one of the UK’s largest and most popular universities with 37,000 students on 1,000 courses, and over 4,000 staff; we are proud of our diverse c…
Financial Ombudsman: What Happens When You Just Can’t Get Through To Someone
Have you ever had problems being understood by your bank or getting your point across to your payday lender? From Able Magazine #110 (March/April 2…
Column: Tom Wentworth
As you might expect from someone who writes a column such as this, I’m very open about my Cerebral Palsy. I’m also well known for making jokes at my ow…
Column: Sophie Partridge – Money Makes The World Go Round – In Circles
Having money brings its own complications and difficulties. As a self-employed disabled person, earning enough is an endless pursuit; just try…
Steel Wheels: Choosing The Right Wheelchair For You
Wheelchairs come in all manner of shapes, colours and designs. The choices seem endless but purchasing decisions are so important to think through. We’…
In Depth – Power of Attorney
It’s important to have a plan for tomorrow, not only along the lines of what you want to achieve and do with it but also taking into account what’ll ha…
Travel Tales: Value Vacations
It won’t be too long until the weather gets a bit brighter and warmer and we begin to think about taking a summer holiday. We’ve put together a few pos…
Get Active: Misfits
Julie Andrews cracks the boards at ‘Misfits’ in Bristol, the unique theatre company and social group for people with learning difficulties. From Ab…
Able’s Naidex National Preview
Naidex National returns to the NEC Birmingham and promises to supply a cloudburst of choice and colour to the disability events calendar. It sums up wh…
Personal Independence Payments (PIP): How’s It Going?
You may recall that PIP is a new benefit for people of working age who need help participating in everyday life or who find it difficult to get around.…
My Story: Paul Moore
Paul Moore hasn’t looked back since winning a place on The Network, the future talent scheme of the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festiva…
Nanovaccines: vaccines that don’t need refrigeration in developing countries
If vaccines get too warm, health workers have to throw them away. So researchers are trying to design vaccines that can withstand heat. New nanotechnol…
The Medium As Message: Disability and Television
Television lives by the idea that art imitates life. Perhaps more than any other medium, television is the eye revealing our soul. If that’s true we ca…