BBC News - Disability

15 May 2014Last updated at 09:16

Paint explosionHow patients might design a psych ward

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Protective petsThe dogs monitoring diabetes by owners' breath

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Hug revels in rivalry with Briton Weir

London Marathon wheelchair winner Marcel Hug says he enjoys his rivalry with six-time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir. BBC Sport

Pistorius to face psychiatric tests

The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial orders that the South African Paralympic athlete should undergo a mental evaluation.

Explainers

'Disability confident'
The term is everywhere on social media. But what does it mean?
'Easy read' v jargon
Simplifying language for people with learning difficulties
The nebuliser
An important device for certain lung conditions. How does it work?
Trigger warnings
The spoiler alerts with a more important message for mental health issues

See Hear

To sign or to speak
William Mager describes the difficult choice facing deaf people
Signing out
The decline of regional dialects for the deaf
Signing on stage
Tracing the history of deaf theatre
All in the hands
Italians' love of gestures leave deaf people feeling marginalised

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Touch type
Why has nobody produced a Braille e-reader?
'Linguistic lepers'
The changing attitudes to deafness since 1973
Hands up?
The dilemma of 'disclosing' a disability at work
Admiring autism
Busting 'autism myths' with a camera
Disarmed and disabled
The challenges for soldiers leaving Armed Forces
Signed service
The story of the UK's only deaf purpose-built church
Albino-ah
The people who believe that Noah had albinism
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