Please see below selected recent disability-related developments.
See also: What's New? - Disability
July 2019
Halcyon curates the most significant disability-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with disability-related challenges.
Halcyon Highlights is a bi-weekly round-up of some of the most compelling trends that we have spotted over the past fortnight. + , - or = indicate whether we consider each trend/development to prove mainly positive, negative or neutral/too early to judge...
...that disabled people face daily. More than one billion people worldwide experience some form of disability, the UN and World Bank claimed in their World Report on Disability
A global foundation helps people who are significantly impaired by a physical limitation in their daily lives, and helps improve their integration into the wider society and economy.
...won by a particular nation being an accurate proxy of the way it looks after its disabled. Or is it merely that investment is concentrated in high-profile events like the Paralympics to the detriment of day-to-day care? Or, less cynically, is it just that a particular crop of athletes all happen to come good at the same time?