Tag Archives: deaf/blind
October 6th it will be 80 years since the first Guide dog
Guide Dogs Week 1 – 9 October 2011
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We’re counting down to Guide Dogs Week! It’s going to be a great celebration of our 80th anniversary, with amazing events across the UK.
We have lots of ideas on how you can ‘Go for 80‘, and you can find out how our local teams are getting ready in the Guide Dogs Week blog. Please use the blog to tell us about your plans too.
On paper I’m registered partially sighted and disabled, but I’d rather not be defined by that
Alys Wall explains the affects of her visual disability
- by Alys Wall, Western Mail
- Sep 5 2011
The Big Lottery Fund last week launched its £12m Bright New Futures programme to work with young disabled people and families in Wales. Partially-sighted 17-year-old Alys Wall, who helped launch that programme, writes frankly about her life and her hopes and fears for the future
WHEN you first meet me or pass me in the street, you wouldn’t think there’s anything different about me to the next girl that you meet.
I appear to be the same as everyone else – there’s nothing to hint that I have a disability which has changed both mine and my family’s life to the extreme.
The East Coast truckers convey must not end! What a wonderful day today!
Picture gallery: East Coast Truckers convoy could be its last
By ANNABELLE DICKSON
Sunday, August 28, 2011
6:55 PM
Norwich woke up to the sound of honking horns this morning (Sunday) as children from across the county and beyond sat proudly in truck cabins travelling in style to Great Yarmouth and Pleasurewood Hills.
In streets and lay-bys along the route from the city to the seaside town, thousands lined up waving flags and cheering as the East Coast Truckers convoy of 83 trucks set off on a day out for 73 disadvantaged children including those with disabilities, the terminally-ill and children with learning difficulties.
