Living With Disability

A training centre for blind people in Taman Cahaya at Pekan Muhibah here also houses the first village in Malaysia for blind people.

Job placement for people with disabilities unit (UPPOKU) has been helping the disabled community to land jobs since 2011.

It’s somewhat surprising that it’s taken this long for one of the major players to seriously address the issue of accessibility, but with the adaptive controller, Xbox believes it has finally come up with a solution that will put disabled gamers on a level playing field with everybody else.

Do you remember being carried in your father’s arms? No? I do. That’s because my dad was still lifting me when I was in college. See, I can’t walk. Never could, never will. I was born with a genetic neuromuscular weakness called spinal muscular atrophy.

If you have ever wished that your workplace were more sensitive to your specific needs, these tips may be useful:

Manuel Solano’s earliest paintings were all about subtle gradient and tone; photo-realistic objects emerged from mist or disappeared in receding space. But in early 2014, the Mexico City-based painter started to go blind as a result of an H.I.V.-related infection.

It’s no mystery that romantic relationships take effort. They’re not always full of sunshine and flowers. They require good communication, patience, trust, and understanding. That’s not easy even for the regular able-bodied couple. If you or your partner happens to have a disability, this can bring about an entirely different set of difficulties.

The Health Ministry should approve a drug named Spinraza that can help people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), said WeCare Journey co-founder Yap Sook Yee.

When we think of cyborgs — people whose physical abilities have been enhanced by mechanical elements built into their bodies — we tend to think of the Hollywood version. For example, there’s a movie coming out soon called Alita: Battle Angel, about a cyborg discovered in a junkyard who turns out to be a highly-skilled and powerful assassin. If you’ve seen the trailer for this movie, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the age of cyborgs is still very far away.

Last summer, I was looking through some BioNews Services articles when I came across one about online dating. The young woman who wrote the article talked about how she never felt like she fit in at school and because of that, she hadn’t ever dated anyone. She went on to say how she was considering making a dating app profile. I empathized with her story because I had never dated anyone either.