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Twentieth anniversary of disability now – what has been achieved in the last 20 years? 04.08.04
SPOD closes down – 02.08.04
Adapting to ushers syndrome – living with both deafness and sight loss – 26.07.04
Electric wheelchairs in short supply due to lack of funding – 13.07.04
Access to shops – part 1 - 16.07.04
Access to shops – part 2 - 16.07.04
Access to shops – part 3 - 16.07.04
How large is the hepatitis c epidemic in the UK? - 05.07.04
New organisation established to promote research into autism treatment – 28.06.04
Student diaries – end of year part 2 – 25.06/6/4
Mother campaigns to make playgrounds accessible - 24.06.04
End of Year Student Diaries - 21.6.04
Life-saving tumour operation cancelled six times - 21.6.04
Update on advances in stem cell treatment - 18.6.04
Campaigners call for tougher subtitling targets - 15.6.04
Former Mayor condemns lack of wheelchair access - 14.6.04
Unclaimed Benefits - Part II- 11.6.04
Unclaimed benefits- Part I- 10.6.04
Shortage of Speech Therapists in the UK- 09.06.04
Blind voting- 04.06.04
New mobile phone for deaf people
Supermarket combats blue badge abuse
Normansfield - Home of John Langdon Down
New Celebrity Mental Health Magazine Launched
How Can Gyms Be Made More Accessible?
Diabetes Reaches Epidemic Levels In The UK
Mik Scarlet’s dilemma – to walk or not to walk?
Are too many people claiming incapacity benefit?
Changes to special educational needs funding may hamper pupils' support
New moves to end competition scams
Trade Union condemns Remploy’s management
NHS is failing deaf people says RNID
New campaign to change age restriction on disability living allowance

Peter White reports on preparations for this summer's Paralympic games:
Part 1 - Is Athens Ready To Hold The Games?
Part 2 - Who Are The British Names To Watch Out For?
Part 3 - How Far Will Disabled Atheletes Go To Win Medals?

Read our series of reports on special schools:
Part 1 - Royal School For The Blind In Liverpool
Part 2 - Special Needs Pupils and Mainstream Schools
Part 3 - Sybil Elgar School For Children With Autism
Part 4 -Special Schools - Call You And Yours
Part 5 -Cademuir School For Gifted Children
Part 6 -School For Deaf Pupils

Carers to be given flexible working rights
Andy Rickell becomes a director of Scope
RNIB Set To Close Its Hotels
NHS failing people with arthritis says survey
Putting disability back into history
Interview with head of new social care commission
Disabled children learning to get the most out of their wheelchairs
Agreement reached to stop woman sleeping in her wheelchair
Swiss authorities clamp down on "suicide tourists"
Carers are not getting the respite care they need
Government takes action to reduce Blue Badge misuse
Disabled rower completes his record-breaking journey across the Atlantic
Leading designer says disability equipmentneeds a design overhaul
Did Conductive Education ever achieve what it claimed?
Taskforce says progress is being made, but people with learning disabilities are still socially excluded
Initiative aims to boost it skills of deaf people
Disabled Police Officers threaten to sue Metropolitan Police for discrimination
Report into Rocky Bennett's death condemns institutional racism in NHS - part 1
Report into Rocky Bennett's death condemns institutional racism in NHS - part 2
New bill to help carers
Abuse of disabled parking bays - your views
Survey into abuse of disabled parking bays
Eating Disorder Association introduce health check card
Disabled man wins historic ruling against Ryanair
Film star Debra Winger explains why she supports the charity Sight Savers
New national guidelines for treating eating disorders published
Thousands more wheelchair accessible homes needed say campaigners
Woman awarded £2,000 compensation for being denied a disabled parking bay
Disability campaigners say "fairer charging" policy is not fair
Should Pscyhotherapists face tighter regulation?
Should the NHS be making more use of the private sector to provide digital hearing aids?
Classical musicians suffer hearing damage
Woman wins compensation for enduring smoking at work
How does the portrayal of disabled people affect attitudes?
Moving people with learning disabilities out of hospitals
People of restricted growth campaign tofight prejudice
Disabled people and dangerous sports
French Social Care
United Airlines
Mental Incapacity Bill
Why are there so few disabled people in advertisements?
Are scientists promising too much from stem cell research?
Number of suicides falls
Assistance dogs update
Long term conditions update
Hearing aids on the high street
Community alarms update
Access to books
What is a PA?
Assistance dogs recognised as carers
Assistance payments
Care home abuse Part 2
Care home abuse Part1
Disabled shopping services
Financial services for people with mental health problems
Long term care
London & blue badge spaces
Disabled web access
Epilim
You and Yours - disability and employment debate
New Paris café helps to break down barriers for deaf people
Mental health service users also face extra physical health problems
Audit Commission report condemns quality of services for disabled children
Widow claims she was "let down" by Panic Alarm service
Dance music fan runs raves for deaf people
Court rules hospital breached seclusion guidelines
College forced to accept disabled student
Aid for haemophiliacs with Hepatitis C
Epilepsy Charity warns about withdrawal of drug
Benefits Advice Consultant
Mentally ill people owed £30 million after beingwrongly charged for care

Disability special -how accessible is Britain?
How accessible is transport for disabled people?
Call You and Yours - Your views on disabled access
How accessible is healthcare?
How accessible are Britain's public buildings?
Disabled access - Nick Walker's personal perspective

Charity set to close specialist brain injury unit
Haemophilliac wins right to synthetic blood
Black market in stolen blue badges
Kidney dialysis patients dying due to long journeys to hospital, claims doctor
What support do children with dyspraxia need?
Where should people with disabilities sit on aeroplanes?
Scotland's MS "clusters"?
Audio descriptions of dance
Blue Badge update
Mandela opens the Special Olympics
EU disability bus
Carers call for flexible working rights
The portrayal of disabled people on television.
Should children with special educational needs be taught in special schools?
Income protection tests
Hate crimes and disability
Long term care compensation cases
BSL used in exams
Lack of discrimination protection for the mentally ill
New guidelines on usage of ECT
Writers aim to combat taboo surrounding death
Should elderly people with Alzheimer's Disease be tagged?
Peterborough parking bays update
Peterborough council leader refuses disabled parking bays
New housing initiative to help people with learning disabilities
Blue badge theft
Survey shows NHS is giving poor support to people with MS
Half price coach travel for the elderly and for disabled persons.
New report claims doctors, dentists and opticians discriminate against disabled people
Why is there a shortage of psychiatrists?
New disabled access code of conduct for airlines
Court decision gives hope to home care residents
New survey reveals that big disability charities are failing to employ disabledpeople
British Sign Language is recognised as an official language
Wheelchairs and bed-blocking in the NHS
A paralysed Rugby player wins case against Welsh Rugby Union
NHS still failing to detect deafness in children
Don Quixote with a difference - learning disabled actors
Will changes to the Criminal Records Bureau place vulnerable people at risk?
Post boxes to conform with Disability Discrimination Act
Interview with disability campaigner Ian Stillman
Judge orders local authority to scrap ban on manual lifting disabled people
Elderly and disabled people have been unfairly charged for long term care, says nhs ombudsman
Epilepsy campaigners "disappointed" by new government action plan to reduce deaths.
New laws needed to protect the interests of people with mental incapacity, say disability campaigners.
Why do so few disabled people hold public appointments?
Manchester United’s disabled supporters boycott the millennium stadium
Anorexia
Waiting lists for NHS digital hearing aids
Should people with learning disabilities be banned from the paralympics?
Motability changes
RNIB lobby Parliament over the new Communications Bill
Disabled children
Assistance Dogs
Should disabled people be allowed to use direct payments to pay a relative to assist them?
Do we need a disabled persons' parliament?
Bad benefit assessments by doctors
Do charities really reflect the people that they serve?

Disabled student diaries

Thousands of students have recently started university for the first time, getting to grips with lectures, living away from home and of course socialising. Three disabled students have been keeping a diary of their experiences during their first month.
Read their thoughts here:

Diary 1
Diary 2
Diary 3
Diary 4
Diary 5

More of their diaries can be found on the BBC's disability website OUCH

Disability and Employment:
Why don’t more disabled people have jobs? Peter White spent a week investigating:

Why don’t more disabled people have jobs?
Your views and experiences
Sheltered + supported employment
Self employment
Andrew Smith (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) tells us his views

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Liz Barclay:
Liz Barclay has presented You and Yours since 1998 ...more info

Winifred Robinson:
Winifred Robinson joined the You and Yours team in 2001 ...more info

John Waite:
John Waite has presented You and Yours and Face the Facts since 1986 ...more info

Peter White:
Since 1995 Peter White has been the BBC's Disability Affairs Correspondent ...more info










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