Access All: Disability News and Mental Health
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Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch – for listeners around the world.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch – for listeners around the world.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 7, 2016 • 22min
On this special day
The team discuss those big awareness days like International Wheelchair Day or Autism Day
Feb 26, 2016 • 23min
Fiction containing disabled characters - do you embrace them, or 'read 'em and weep'?
We share our thoughts on fictional disabled characters who have caught our imagination.
Feb 19, 2016 • 18min
Your disability anniversary
Do you mark the day you became disabled? The team discuss, with guests Sofia Crockatt and her dad Nick.
Feb 12, 2016 • 53min
'Charging the battery': coping with a disability and a mental illness
Open and frank stories of coping with mental illness and a disability, and strategies.
Feb 5, 2016 • 20min
... like an LGBT for disability
It appears that the acronym used by the gay, lesbian and trans community works quite well and arguably has been part and parcel of the progressive impact they've had in recent years. So, being as lots of people dislike the word 'disability', could an acronym work better for this group?
Jan 29, 2016 • 12min
Using chopsticks with your toes
From snacks to eating out in restaurants, Mat Fraser and Liz Carr discuss the perils of eating if you have an impairment which makes it problematic ... or should we say 'messy'. Also features Emma Tracey. Originally broadcast in November 2010.
Jan 22, 2016 • 22min
A colouring book for blind people
Not an immediately obvious gift for someone who can't see but could it work?
Jan 14, 2016 • 57min
Disabled mums and sign names
Why disabled mums decide to have children despite the extra risks. And why sign language users might sometimes appear a little politically incorrect.
Jan 8, 2016 • 12min
The questions kids ask
What happens when your child starts to question or be embarrassed by your disability?
Dec 18, 2015 • 20min
Would you live next door to a ‘handicapped’ person?
The Ouch team plays a game of 1980s dilemmas.
