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On Your Marks for 2012 with the BT Paralympic World Cup

The BT Paralympic World Cup will take place in Manchester from 22-26 May 2012. The best elite international athletes will descend upon Manchester to compete in this crucial build-up event just 100 days before the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

This year’s event will include Wheelchair Basketball, Athletics and Football (7-aside), with international matches taking place in Boccia and Sitting Volleyball during the event.

Channel 4, the London 2012 Paralympic Games host broadcaster, will provide multi-platform coverage of the BT Paralympic World Cup for a second year, compounding its commitment to raise awareness of Paralympic sport.

BT has been the title sponsor of the BT Paralympic World Cup since 2009. As the only annual elite international multi-sport disability event in the world, it was created to bridge the gap between the four-yearly Paralympic Games.

Suzi Williams, Director, BT Group

Alternative views of disabilities

As communications and marketing manager of the Boston Jewish Film Festival,Jeff Remz is accustomed to thinking about what matters to the Jewish community. But the films on people with disabilities that his organization is screening beginning tonight are important, as Remz said, “to the entire film-going public.


“Disabilities don’t know boundaries by way of country, ethnicity, religion, or community.’’ said Remz. “Yes, we are the Jewish Film Festival, but we believe that REELAbilities gives us a chance to expand awareness of disabilities.’’


It is a dramatic departure for the BJFF, since only one of the six films included in Boston’s REELAbilities festival has a Jewish theme. Remz has already seen all six films himself, and is hard-pressed to name his favorite.

Parents outraged over disabled transport bungle

Parents of disabled children in New South Wales who have been left without transport to and from school say the Government has had months to solve the problem.

More than 100 students with disabilities across the state are still without transport - a week after school returned - and many have missed classes because of a Government dispute with bus operators.

It has been a difficult and distressing week for parents whose disabled children have been left stranded.

Alicia Scott's son, Christopher, has learning difficulties and behavioural problems. He was due to start year six this week but has been unable to attend.

"He's tending to lock himself in his room. He doesn't want to interact with anybody because

'Bigger than words': Program helps disabled clients be social, mobile

A day-habilitation center that focuses on clients staying stimulat­ed in movement is helping adults at the Children's Center Adult Pro­gram become more mobile, inde­pendent and expressive.

In the past four months that eight adults between the ages of 21 to 25 have been at the center, they've become more social and ambulatory. They are men and women with mild to severe physi­cal and mental disabilities. One cli­ent is blind, and some have autistic-like characteristics, said Cynthia McCaghren, the center's executive director.

"A lot of what is done at the center is 'hand over hand' -- my job is to keep them stimulated," she said. "They are at such a level that the only other facility in the city that caters to people with disabilities would not suit them."

With a $97,000 operating budget -- $15,000 is raised through contributions and fundraisers -- the center counts pennies to care for the adults, who

Rural disabled people to enjoy social security coverage

BEIJING - Disabled people in China's rural areas will enjoy full coverage by all the country'ssocial security systems by 2015, the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF) said onThursday.

According to the CDPF-published Outline for Poverty Relief and Development for DisabledPersons in Rural Area (2011-2020), those social security systems include the minimum livingsecurity system, new cooperative health care system, and the new rural social pensioninsurance system.

The outline said that the household incomes of 10 million disabled people in rural area will beimproved by 2015 due to the government support, and community rehabilitation service will beprovided around the country.

Stars Sarah Parish and Roger Lloyd Pack support Bridge School campaign

ACTORS Sarah Parish, known for her role in BBC television drama Mistresses, and Roger Lloyd Pack of Only Fools and Horses, are supporting a campaign to raise £1million to improve a pioneering special school in Islington.

The Bridge School has 150 pupils aged 2-19 with autistic spectrum disorders, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties.

Ms Parish said: “The work the Bridge School does with disabled children is incredible.

Three Hundred Passengers – Some Disabled or Under Age – Abandoned on Concordia, Claim Prosecutors

Yesterday at 7.55 pm, when the news came that Francesco Schettino could go home, it was clear that investigators were looking into other people’s responsibilities in the Costa Concordia disaster. The captain of the cruise line is certainly to blame but he is probably not the only culprit. Hence the need to reconstruct all that evening’s communications and in particular the orders given by his superiors at the Costa company. Investigators want to know what advice Captain Schettino received when he spoke to Roberto Ferrarini, the man in charge of Costa’s crisis unit and fleet management.