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In 2021, she was a lead presenter for Channel 4's TV coverage of the Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. She has been voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK as part of the Shaw Trust's Disability Power 100. [2] Morgan has been working on television for almost twenty years.
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.
Samantha May Kinghorn (born 6 January 1996) is a British World Champion wheelchair racer [2] and TV presenter. At the 2024 paralympics she won a gold medal. Personal history
Former athlete Julie McGovern was shamed by a stranger for using a disabled parking spot. The stranger left a cruel note on McGovern's car calling her a "faker" because she appeared to be ...
She attended the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University on a full scholarship, where she competed against nondisabled athletes in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I track and field events. She is the first female amputee in history to compete in the NCAA and the first amputee in history (male or female) to ...
The media generally depicts people with disabilities according to common stereotypes such as pity and heroism.Disability advocates often call this type of societal situation the "pity/heroism trap" or "pity/heroism dichotomy" and call instead for its supporters to "Piss On Pity" and push forward with inclusion instead.
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
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