Living With Disability

For the first time, three tetraplegic people are able to control a commercial tablet device with their thoughts thanks to a brain-computer interface. The research suggests that people who lose the capacity to speak may be able continue to communicate with the technology.

Lebih 40 orang anak-anak autisma hadir memeriahkan Kempen Kesedaran Autisma anjuran Unit Pemulihan Carakerja dan Unit Pendidikan Kesihatan Hospital Taiping di pusat beli-belah AEON Taiping, Perak baru-baru ini.

You wouldn’t think twice about the height of a door handle. But it’s something Tarryn Tomlinson has to consider every single day. Tomlinson was a teenager when the way she experienced the world changed. “I developed rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 18 and within a year and a half I needed to use a wheelchair,” she says.

His limited mobility due to his amputated leg posed no obstacle to Ahmad Nazri Hamzah to learn how to scuba dive.

Ahmad Nazri, 28, who was diagnosed with bone cancer during his teens and had his left leg amputated above the knee, took up scuba diving with Dive Heart Malaysia ambassador Syed Abd Rahman Syed Hassan.

Aktivis orang kurang upaya (OKU) Anthony Thanasayan membidas Belanjawan 2019 yang diumumkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan (HARAPAN) sebagai tidak mengambil kira golongan OKU.

The launch of specialjobs.com.my – a free job portal specifically for the disabled community – is a welcome development in forging equal opportunities for all Malaysians. The strategic partnership between Brickfields Asia College (BAC), an education group and the Ministry of Human Resources is a significant milestone in the nation’s history. Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran and Labour department director-general Mohd Jeffrey Joakim should be applauded for facilitating this significant effort with the support of the BAC.

Seramai lapan orang kelainan upaya (OKU) cacat fizikal dan enam orang pekak serta bisu menyertai Program Selaman Skuba Dive Heart anjuran Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) di Pulau Bidong, Merang, Terengganu 
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To all outward appearances, Nur Fatin Shahsazizan is a strong, independent young woman determined to forge her own path in life.

But Fatin, who has been hearing-impaired since birth, acknowledges that this is difficult in a world which more often than not caters to “normal people”.