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Nadia Chomyn (24 October 1967 – 28 October 2015) was a British autistic artist who was born in Nottingham.Considered severely handicapped both intellectually and motorically, she is best known for her realistic drawings as a child prodigy, depicting mainly horses and roosters.
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
Kinghorn is part of the Glasgow disability sports club Red Star, [5] where she is coached by Ian Mirfin MBE (new years honours list 2015/16). She is classified as a T53 para-athlete. [2]
McGovern was issued a disabled parking permit by her doctor because her symptoms are so unpredictable. Nevertheless, McGovern is always self-conscious when using the permit. She sometimes waits in ...
Ellison was born in Rockville Centre, New York, on October 20, 1978, to Edward and Jean (née Derenze) Ellison. [1] On September 4, 1990, at age 11, she was hit by a car while walking home from school, resulting in paralysis from the neck down.
Arunima Sinha is now dedicated towards social welfare and wants to open a free sports academy for poor and disabled people. She is donating all the financial aids she is getting through awards and seminars for the same cause. [38] The academy would be named Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Vikalang Khel Academy. [39]
Heather Baynard, a 14-year-old with cerebral palsy, reportedly died on April 11, 2022, hours after her father carried her cold, gray, listless body into a local hospital like a sack of potatoes.
Judith Ellen "Judy" Heumann (/ ˈ h j uː m ə n /; [2] December 18, 1947 – March 4, 2023) was an American disability rights activist, known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement". [3]