Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life by Frances Ryan review – countering the stereotypes
The journalist’s second book offers positivity in the face of the obstacles confronting disabled girls and women
Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed – or terrified?
An accident left Noland Arbaugh paralysed, but Musk’s Neuralink brain implant allows him to control computers with his thoughts. Is it a life-changing innovation that could help millions – or the start of a dystopia where a billionaire can access our thoughts?
Breakfast clubs must be for all children in England, say disability charities
Campaigners want Labour’s key education policy to provide food for primary aged pupils rather than just in schools
‘A 30-second walk would exhaust me beyond reason’: Natacha’s life with long Covid
Natacha Gray had an active life, diving, climbing and playing music, before illness left her so tired she would collapse on the way to the couch. She discusses two and a half devastating years – and how she stays optimistic
How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath
A day with some blind and partially sighted walkers has shown me how much I barely notice – and how hard it is to find the right words, writes Adrian Chiles
‘Any embarrassment is in your head!’: How hearing aids boost your health and happiness
There is still a stigma around hearing tests and hearing loss – even though excellent help is now at hand. It could just change your life
I have spent years in such pain that I begged for someone to cut my arm off. This is how I survived
Amy Pohl was working as a teacher when a medical accident left her with the condition CRPS. She talks about the agony that even doctors struggle to understand – and her new life as a TikTok star
I learned to love my disabled body – why can’t my non-disabled friends love theirs?
For years I blamed my disability for my adolescent unhappiness. Then, as an adult, I learned to embrace and celebrate my body. I wish others could do the same
‘I thought of all the times I’d had to shout and my heart shrivelled up’: life with my hearing-impaired father
Their relationship was marked by confusion and frustration – until an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills prompted author Katherine Heiny to take her father for a hearing test
I was the most injured female survivor of 7/7 – and I wouldn’t change a thing about my life
Martine Wright almost died in the London bombings, but since then, she says, she has experienced great luck. She describes the journey to parenthood, a pilot’s licence and the Paralympics