A Moorfields Eye Hospital nurse consultant who helped train hundreds of health workers who administer sight-saving injections has been honoured with an MBE. Adam Mapani (pictured) is recognised in the
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A mother sobbed as she described the “barbaric and inhumane” treatment of her autistic daughter while she was in the care of the NHS. NHS worker Benji O’Reilly gave distressing
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A visually impaired woman who took legal action after alleging the Government failed to provide her with accessible shielding information during the pandemic has reached an out-of-court agreement, her lawyers
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Nearly two-thirds of disabled people are experiencing chronic loneliness during lockdown, a new study has found. The number is even higher among young disabled people – 70%, according to research
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Council social services staff have been criticised by a judge over the way they dealt with a deaf woman embroiled in a family court dispute over her two children. Deputy
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Deaf people have said the lack of a sign language interpreter at coronavirus briefings in England is leaving the community “isolated” and allowing misinformation to spread. British Sign Language (BSL)
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Linda Hynd is the registered manager of Sense Scotland’s Tullideph Housing Support and Care at Home Services Team in Dundee, which supports people with learning disabilities, sensory impairments and complex
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One of the designers behind Twitter’s voice tweets has apologised for failing to make the feature accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people. The social network launched a test
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Academics at the University of Edinburgh are asking for deaf young people to take part in a study. The research, done in partnership with the University of Manchester and funded
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Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa is to offer information to people with sight loss as part of a new scheme. The technology company has worked with the Royal National Institute of
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