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First major character with Down syndrome on a television series, portrayed by a person who also has Down syndrome. [71] 2018 Penny Stevenson: Cerrie Burnell: Doctors: She was born with a right arm that ends just below the elbow. [72] 1999 Joe Swanson: Patrick Warburton: Family Guy: He is paraplegic and uses a wheelchair. [73] 2005 Tenth Doctor ...
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021
Note: This category's interpretation of disability is quite broad, and may include people with medical conditions that may not typically be considered disabled. See also Category:People with disabilities .
Fictional disabled characters in soap operas (30 P) A. Fictional amputees (3 C, 213 P) D. Fictional deaf characters (28 P) Fictional characters with disfigurements (3 ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American people. ... American disabled sportspeople (5 C, 185 P) W. American wheelchair users (2 C, 86 P)
The character was created by Gene Roddenberry – a positive role model for disabled people. Toph Beifong – from the show Avatar: The Last Airbender was born blind, but uses her Earthbending abilities to sense vibrations and "see" things that are in contact with the earth. For this reason, she hates flying and sailing, as she lacks contact ...
There is at present only one athlete who has won a medal at the Olympics prior to becoming disabled, and has then gone on to win medals at the Paralympics. Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres won a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics , then was disabled in a bus accident, and went on to win three gold medals and three bronze in wheelchair ...
Eternal innocence, paired with people with intellectual disabilities, such as in the films Forrest Gump, I Am Sam and Rain Man are given a childlike mentality. The victim of violence [18] This is the trope in where a recently disabled individual cannot accept their new life and attempts to reverse their disability.