On The Web
| 16:16 UK time, Friday, 27 May 2011
- Whether championed by PR companies or disabled people themselves, it seems that these days, all 52 weeks of the year are earmarked for the awareness raising of one disability or another. This, the third week in May, is a bumper week. It aims to get people talking about both and
- Sleep, or lack of it, is the focus of 2011's Mental Health Awareness week. A campaign to highlight the importance of getting some shut eye for good mental wellbeing is being run by the and includes a Pocket Guide to Better Sleep and some useful MP3s, which are all available as free downloads.
- Last Friday the Guardian ran a on disclosing a mental health problem to employers. It followed a related piece by Mind's CEO, Paul Farmer, and comes very soon after his charity published research which revealed that "one in five people who had disclosed had been sacked or forced out of their jobs".
- Last weekend was a biggy for deaf entertainment. Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin [Children of a Lesser God] came second on Celebrity Apprentice USA. And the Lighthouse Theatre Wolverhampton hosted Deaffest, described on their website as "the UK's only Deaf-led film and television festival, celebrating the talents of Deaf filmmakers and media artists from all over the world". Many of the UK entries, including Cotton Clouds, which won in the best film category, and My Song, by Charlie Swinbourne and William Major, which received over two thousand YouTube views during its first 24 hours online, can be watched on the website.
- The second edition of online magazine, has just been published. It is edited by young disabled friends, Martyn Sibley and Srin Madipalli, and features lots of other voices. The over-arching theme of the publication is travel, but it also includes an interview with Paralympic hopeful Fran Williamson and a piece on changes to special educational needs provision.
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At 9th Sep 2011, tommytumtum wrote:Now that we have a greater ability to understand and diagnose disability issues I really hope that there will be some great leaps towards better cures and ways to help those who need it. As a college student taking a minor in psych it really helped me learn a lot about these issues.
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