My life as a disabled student
Starting university is stressful for everyone, but disabled students have an extra set of worries, writes student blogger and campaigner Michaela Hollywood
Students with disabilities get a career boost
A new website aims to help them through the graduate application process and into a top job
Exercise and disability: ‘Now things hurt for the right reasons’
Shana Pezaro's life fell apart when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. But, like many other people with disabilities, exercise has helped her to regain her confidence and self-esteem
Reel to real: Zambian TV show inspires sex education scheme for deaf people
Youth clubs based on Love Games series bring sex education to people with hearing disabilities to stem high levels of HIV
My battle with motor neurone disease – Neil Platt’s last interview
Neil Platt's battle with MND is the subject of a new film, I Am Breathing. In the last interview he gave before he died in 2009, published here for the first time, he describes his daily struggle
Facing blindness by seeing the funny side
David Bradford: The prospect of going blind isn't funny, but – as I've learned from those who know – not taking it too seriously could help me cope with my sight loss
Natural birth has its dangers, and Caesareans are not a crime
Learning difficulties associated with cerbellum damage in childbirth are a real concern. This is another reason to reject all that 'too posh to push' nonsense
Charity helps young disabled people learn about sex and relationships
A group run by the charity Kids offers members a safe and secure atmosphere to ask questions. Hazel Davis reports
Disabled by grenade – now soldier fights for his benefits
Former lance corporal wounded in grenade attack in Iraq says he is being accused of faking his injuries
Britain’s loneliness epidemic
People in Britain are living longer, and increasingly, spending their last years alone. Now more of us than ever before describe ourselves as lonely. Homa Khaleeli finds out how to beat the loneliness epidemic