British rom-com Me Before You has topped the box office in the UK and is about to reach Australia. It has all the clichés of feel-good romance (including a castle), but it has also been labelled a ‘disability snuff movie’.
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Students with disabilities find that they must accommodate themselves to institutional contexts which they find profoundly disabling.
Schools are deliberately disregarding disability standards through rejecting school places, being reluctant to make teaching adjustments and having poor attitudes towards disability.
Singers on The Voice last week spoke of the healing power of songwriting. And a new study has found that writing songs about their experience is helping people cope with acquired brain and spinal chord injuries.
In 2012, nearly one-third of voters with a disability had trouble voting. A 2002 law was supposed to fix this problem. New technology may have the answer at last.
How long will it be before we can open doors and send emails with just our minds?
How sexual attraction to a disabled body is about more than just desires of the flesh.
The European Union has played a key role in making buildings more accessible, homes more liveable and travel easier. But what would happen if the UK left?
Saturday, April 2, is World Autism Day. Many individuals with extraordinary ability have been found to have autism. Researchers have now found that many child prodigies have an autistic relative.
The outlook can be bleak for people with ASD who have difficulty navigating the stressful work world. A trial project in Connecticut sought to find a new way to help them become truly independent.
Ambridge needs more than just a nod to disability.
Although the medical profession must make hard choices about how to allocate care, these decisions need not and should not be shrouded in mystery.
A 3cm-long stent containing 12 electrodes could one day help people living with spinal cord injury to walk with the power of thought.
Parents need to be pushier and demand private school places for their children.
Children with disabilities are frequently discriminated against in Australian schools, with parents asked to send their child to another school or fork out extra money.
By tying funding to disability categories, schools and parents are being put under pressure to seek a diagnosis for their child in order to get funding support.
Navigating a major metropolis with a disability is tough, but the Paralympics give us the chance to make it work.
Community and housing industry leaders agreed a national guideline and a plan to provide basic access features in all new housing by 2020. But this voluntary approach is failing.
The history of disability toys – that is, both toys designed for use by disabled children, and toys that depict disability – reflects the changing treatment of the disabled.
Language can be used harmfully to construct categories of others. The words we use in describing children with disabilities need to be examined, challenged - and changed.
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Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University
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Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Social Inclusion - UTS Business School - Centres for Business and Social innovation, and Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Rehabilitation, Ageing and Independent Living Research Centre and Occupational Therapy Department, School of Primary and Allied Healthcare, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto
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ARC Research Fellow in Indigenous Health, Disability and Community Development, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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Professor, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Education, University of Newcastle
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
