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
Dec 11, 2015 • 16min
Stare at the bear in the chair
How London commuters reacted to a disabled toy
Dec 4, 2015 • 55min
Ouch 'Christmas dinner' special
Kids, crackers and is it OK to be given a disability related prezzie?
Nov 27, 2015 • 14min
"You walk funny" - repeat
Find out how the Ouch team get along. Also, do you mention you're disabled when trying to attract a potential partner on internet dating sites? This is a repeat presentation of a podcast which first aired in April 2015.
Nov 20, 2015 • 15min
That white cane ban story
Lily-Grace Hooper, 7, was told by her school that she can't use her white cane
Nov 16, 2015 • 18min
Tangles with trains
What's it like to step off a station platform into thin air, instead of on to a train? Three blind journalists tell their tales of travelling on trains when you can't see.
Nov 5, 2015 • 1h 13min
Choices and rights: The story of the Disability Discrimination Act
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the first disability anti-discrimination law in the UK. It's a time to look back at the disability rights movement in the early 90's, which was so vibrant during the period, and to canvas some views about what has been achieved, and what is still left to be done. Imagine never having disclosed your chronic pain to anyone except close family? Sandra Lawry has waited 62 years to tell her story, and she shares it with us.Justin Tomlinson, appointed as Minister for Disabled People back in May after the general election, gives one of his first long-form interviews since he took up the post.
Oct 30, 2015 • 15min
Are disability related Halloween costumes offensive?
It’s Halloween and disability related costumes are doing the rounds. Is it offensive to dress up as a mental patient, Oscar Pistorius, or a blind stereotype?
Oct 23, 2015 • 16min
How do blind people interpret emojis?
Apple has released 150 brand new emojis. The internet is becoming increasingly visual but how do blind people experience these graphics, and is digital communication becoming more inaccessible?
Oct 16, 2015 • 16min
The disabled man who held a stranger's hand on a bus
This week a picture of a disabled man hugging a stranger on a bus went viral. The man sat with Robert, who is deaf and has cerebral palsy, for a half hour journey, holding his hand and comforting him. We discuss whether people need to be more compassionate, and what this means for disabled people.
Oct 9, 2015 • 53min
Brothers, sisters and disability
Kate Monaghan and Simon Minty delve in to the complex, and sometimes difficult, area of relationships between disabled and non-disabled siblings. Their guests include a disabled member of a non-disabled family, and the only able-bodied sibling in a family of disabled brothers and sisters. We also hear what it's like to be the non-disabled twin.
