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Contact is helping the NHS test an early intervention course for parents with pre-school children with learning disabilities; supporting parents to manage their child’s behaviour. More than 190 parents have already joined the study, and there are still some places left.  Are you interested in helping?

Disability Horizons teamed up with Evenbreak to bring you the latest jobs for people with a range of impairments. It includes jobs in sales, finance, teaching, legal services, healthcare, hospitality and much more. Working with employers who value the diverse skills disabled people can offer. Check it out here!

“Lots of us disabled folk have a strange and complex relationship with going to the loo. I’ve lost track of how many inanimate objects I’ve had to use as a ‘toilet’!” Says disabled actress and disability campaigner, Samantha Renke. Here, she shares her stories, highlighting exactly why accessible toilets are vital for people with a range of disabilities.

Disability Horizons writer, Emma Purcell, who is partially sighted and uses a wheelchair, shares a post from her blog Rock For Disability on tackling climate change if you’re disabled. “Climate change was high on the agenda in 2019, with protests, rallies, global summits and 11,000 scientists saying the world is facing a climate emergency. Although I do agree that changes are needed to tackle global warming, some things are being done the wrong way and many of the decisions being made are not taking into consideration the lives of disabled people.”

When you’re disabled, using public transport can be challenging, sometimes things go well and other times our negative experiences can leave us weighing up whether it’s worth the hassle. 21 year old Shona is a powerchair user and shares one of her more scary experiences: