Living With Disability

A group of people with disabilities, their families and supporters gathered at the Taman Jaya municipal lake park in Petaling Jaya to call for the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 to be abolished.

A group of people with disabilities, their families and supporters gathered at the Taman Jaya municipal lake park here to call for the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 to be abolished.

Kyle Barton is a 28-year-old guy on the autism spectrum. But he lives like the diagnosis isn’t there. He’s got other things on his mind, such as designing the latest development in a virtual learning programme steered by the University of Texas at Dallas’ Centre for BrainHealth.

Kiwanis Careheart Centre merasmikan pembukaan kedai baharunya yang bertujuan untuk memberi latihan teknikal secara amali kepada pelajar yang terdiri daripada kalangan orang kurang upaya (OKU).

The Federal Government needs to have a law to ensure the disabled community be allocated a certain percentage of jobs in both the public and private sectors. Perak Health, Consumer Affairs, Civil Community, National Integration and Human Resources Committee chairman A. Sivanesan (pic) said there should not be any discrimination against the disabled and that such law should be created.

Last week, Marketplace ran an episode dedicated to the economics of disability — what it feels like to live with one, or several, and to interact with the economy. A big part of that relates to work, from getting a job to getting accommodations to do that job. But what does that all mean for employers? Marketplace Weekend spoke to David Lewis, president of OperationsInc, a human resources consulting business, on this topic.

Meskipun dilahirkan dalam serba kekurangan sejak lahir kerana tulang kakinya tidak membesar, namun bukan penghalang untuk seorang wanita ini untuk membesarkan tiga anaknya sehingga berjaya dalam kehidupan.

Fed up with the obstacle course of Lisbon’s narrow footways and stairs in doorways, wheelchair user Ricardo Teixeira has taken matters into his own hands, giving disabled people the chance to fight back and instantly report violations via a phone app.

Clad smartly in a buttoned up blue-chequered shirt over a pair of blue jeans, Raja Iskandar Raja Mansur’s health issues aren’t readily discernible until you get to know him better. He’s blind in one eye, slurs slightly when he speaks and has a shaky right hand that’s only noticeable when he uses it.

Seorang lelaki orang kurang upaya (OKU) berkerusi roda bersama seorang rakannya sanggup ‘menempah maut’ menyusuri laluan bertentangan arah bagi mendapatkan rawatan di sebuah pusat perubatan, di Jalan Rock, Taman Timberland, di sini.