Emma shares her experience of getting mental health support on the NHS.
Category: Life & Disability
Emma shares personal stories, advice pieces, product reviews, life updates plus much more to do with living with cerebral palsy and acute retinal necrosis…
Heat, Hazards and Hooting
Emma shares her dramatic car journey, in which her Peugeot vehicle broke down on a main road in 30 degree heat.
My future with a suprapubic catheter
A suprapubic catheter is a medical device that helps people with bladder flow if they have a disability or urological condition. Emma shares her experience a reason for having one fitted.
Celebrating 6 months of blogging
Six months ago today, I launched Rock For Disability and what an adventure it has become. I’ve got to present how my life is with disabilities, share my passion of music, create social changes plus connect with other like-minded bloggers.
Why is diversity important to me?
As part of the application process, I had to create a YouTube video saying “Why is diversity important to me?”. I wanted to share this on my blog and would appreciate your thoughts and feedback.
Updates on my life and upcoming blog content
This week I thought I’d give you an update on some life events and what plans I have for this blog in the next few weeks.
10 inaccessible high street stores in the UK
Here I want to share my experiences of trying to access certain shops, the difficulties I faced and what should be done to improve accessibility:
Broken Biscuits: Creating independence to disabled animals
Broken Biscuits is a registered charity, founded in 2014, who provide custom made carts, wheelchairs and other mobility aids to help injured dogs and cats live a normal, happy life. They also give medical care to animals with hidden illnesses.
10 Engaging Disability And Mental Health Blog Posts
As a blogger, it is not all about the writing but the reading too. Reading other peoples blogs is a great way of communicating with like-minded people, learn new things & gain advice and also creates encouragement, fascination and new ideas for future blogs. Therefore I would like to share 10 blog posts relating to disability and mental health.
Learning disabled theatre’s success with pioneering project in Africa highlighted on World Down’s Syndrome Day
This week there were global celebrations for World Down Syndrome Day. World Down Syndrome Day (21st March) is a global awareness day, which has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012.