Disability news round up: vulnerable people and dwarf actors
| 11:14 UK time, Friday, 11 November 2011
A particularly large number of disability related stories made the news this week.
A charity worker called for a full investigation into the deaths of a vulnerable couple whose bodies were found in their Warwickshire home. Helen Mullins, who was learning disabled, and her husband Mark had struggled with the process of claiming benefits and are reported to have lived in extreme poverty. in an apparent suicide pact.
The Guardian claimed and out of the benefits system altogether. A study released this week, described by the paper as "the first independent attempt to quantify the impact of more stringent medical tests and the greater use of means testing", found that Government measures 'will impoverish vast numbers and cause untold distress'.
And the forthcoming appearance of Warwick Davis in the new sitcom Life's Too Short prompted comment about the dwarf actor dilemma.
Elsewhere in the news:
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Absconder suicides prompt Commons mental health debate (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)
Teenager's film on having autism (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)
Paralympics: Will London hotels provide for disabled? (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)
New communication hope for head injury patients (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)
Malian musicians Amadou and Mariam stage blind date (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)
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The strange and curious history of lobotomy (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)
What is life like for a teenage prodigy? (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)
Bionic legs help Elena to walk (Ö÷²¥´óÐã News)
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(Huffington Post UK)
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