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BBC Ouch! disability newsletter: news, comment and accessing Africa





Posted by Editor on 9th July 2011 at 05:04 PM
BBC Ouch! disability newsletter: news, comment and accessing Africa
Ouch towers has moved. Now that we're all unpacked and have been allocated our firedrill buddies, we are delighted to be back!

**Highlights on Ouch this week:**

A SELECTION OF NEWS AND COMMENT ON THE WEEK'S TOP DISABILITY STORIES
Updated every Friday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/07/a_selection_of_news_and_commen.html

KEEPING YOUR MENTAL HEALTH SAFE ONLINE
Social online media and forums can be a great way of keeping in contact with like-minded people, but there is little information aimed at helping adult mental health service users to keep safe in these spaces.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/07/keeping_mental_health_safe_onl.html

DISABILITY ALLIANCE THREATENS LEGAL ACTION
The Disability Alliance has announced that it has begun a formal legal process against the Government disability benefit and service changes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/07/disability_alliance_threatens.html

DISABILITY ON THE BBC
Every Friday we highlight some notable programmes on TV and Radio.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/07/bbc_tv_and_radio_this_week_epi.html

HOMELESS AND DISABLED IN LOS ANGELES
BBC Correspondent Peter Bowes reports for Radio 5 Live on the plight of the city's homeless veterans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/07/homeless_and_disabled_in_los_a.html

TWEETING DISABILITY
Four twitter users get straight to the heart of disability life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/07/tweeting_disability_a_birthday.html

ACCESS AFRICA
350 blind and visually impaired people from 30 countries across the continent are currently attending the fifth African Forum on Blindness.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/07/the_african_forum_on_blindness.html

OUCH! TALK SHOW 72
The Quadfather - aka world no. 2 quad tennis champ Peter Norfolk - joins us to explain wheelchair tennis and we're all about social media with a roundtable discussion on how disabled people are using it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/06/ouch_talk_show_72_social_media.html



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