Living With Disability

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.

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.