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   BBC Ouch! disability newsletter - clubbing learnie style, ash cloud access etc
The sun is out for most of us, the ash cloud has gone and the Ouch! newsletter has arrived. Could life get any better? Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbcouch >> Scroll down for lots of goodies including links to disability related programmes on BBC TV, radio and iPlayer << VIDEO: THE BUBBLE CLUB Watch Ouch's new film about the London night club for people with learning difficulties and find out about the 'Stay up late' campaign, which aims to give 'learnies' greater independence. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/features/video_the_bubble_club.shtml YOU KNOW YOU’RE DEAF WHEN … Part 2 of Charlie Swinbourne's entertaining list of deaf-only experiences. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/features/you_know_you_re_deaf_when_part_2.shtml ELECT DISABILITY B1TCH Our sour-faced commentator is standing for election and wants the same amount of publicity that Nick Clegg has received. She's also peeved about all this volcano fuss. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/opinion/b1tch/elect_db.shtml DEAR DISABLED FRIEND Andre Jordan's doodle assures his Dear Disabled Friend that mental wellbeing doesn't only rely on muscle power. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/play/dear_disabled_friend/andre_jordan_dear_disabled_friend_66.shtml *********************************************************** OUCH! TALK SHOW #50 YouTube star The Fully Sick Rapper, joins us from his quarantine bed in a Sydney hospital. Plus news, chat, games and music in our 50th birthday edition. Mat Fraser and Liz Carr present. Listen now or download it to your mp3 player. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/podcast/talk_show_50_-_april_2010.shtml *********************************************************** DISCUSSIONS Posts from the ever popular and ever surprising Ouch! Message boards. David Morris has died http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/F2322273?thread=7449631 Advice re shopping trolley http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/F3611783?thread=7441990 What help does a 6th form college HAVE to provide? http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/F8146589?thread=7403056 See all messageboard discussions here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/messageboards/ DISABILITY NEWS Check out our regularly updated news headlines page here http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/news.shtml STUFF > WATCH: BBC Three’s autism season contains a series of programmes about young people on the autistic spectrum. It started on Thursday 22 April with The Autistic Me, One Year On, which follows the fortunes of three young men looking for love, a job and independence. It continues next Thursday at the same time, with Louis Theroux’s Autistic Driving School. Here’s a link to the entire season. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/pages/autism/ > GET INVOLVED: April 27, 8:40pm - Radio 4's In Touch, the weekly programme for visually impaired people, will be broadcasting an election special where they'll be asking your questions to representatives of the three main parties. If you have something you're keen to have answered, then email intouch@bbc.co.uk before close of PLAY on Sunday THE 25TH OF April. > BE ON A SHOW: If you’re a short statured person aged 18 or over, living in Northern Ireland, listen up. Mind The Gap Films are making a programme where a person with restricted growth gets to spend a couple of days with comedian Adam Hills, having a laugh and showing him what their life is like. Find out more by contacting Anne Heffernan at anne@mindthegapfilms.com before the 3rd of May. The Ouch! team has made it back from Birmingham's Naidex unscathed and we’d like to thank everyone who joined us at our stand and in the seminars. It was particularly lovely to meet some of the regular posters to the Ouch! messageboard.
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