Hello and a very Happy New Year to you all! For my first post of 2013, I wanted to start with a really positive message and I think I’ve found it in the form of a little girl who shares my disability. This is the story of Hope, a ten-year-old girl who has cerebral… Read more »

This week the US Senate will put the ratification to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to the vote. However, the possibility of this legislation becoming the law of the land has rattled many Americans who see the adoption of the Treaty as an attack on US sovereignty. Are they justified… Read more »

Jacques Audiard’s new French / Belgian film, starring the brilliant Marion Cotillard as a recovering amputee, won the ‘Best Film’ award at the London Film Festival in October. It is the second major film of 2012 to reach these shores where disability features prominently throughout the script. In a year where sport has done much to… Read more »

Kindle Entertainment, the London based independent television production company has announced its plan to revive the celebrated ‘Famous Five’ series of children’s books. But how will the jolly, ginger beer-swilling band of Julian, Dick,  Anne, George and Timmy the dog be received by today’s young audience? It is almost 45 years since Enid Blyton passed… Read more »

  On 11 October 2012, David Rose, a young man of just 24 with severe cerebral palsy passed away quietly in a Californian hospital. He did not have a multi platinum selling recording career, nor an academy award to his name. Yet the loss of his life was met with the sort of outpouring of… Read more »