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The deaf and blind American writer who became famous around the world
For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled cars for transport
How activists forced through the first law to help tens of millions of disabled Indians
In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians
The wheelchair warriors who brought London to a standstill to make their point
In April 1977, US disabled activists occupied a government building for nearly a month.
Christopher Nolan became the first severely disabled person to win the Whitbread prize.
Ron Kovic is a former US Marine turned peace activist whose story became a Hollywood film
The creation of a communication system for people with learning difficulties in the 1970s
In the 1980s deaf children in Nicaragua invented a completely new sign language
Students at the world's first deaf-only University demand a deaf college President.
The first Paralympics were held in Rome in 1960.
