Tags: Trailblazers

As the new Employability Officer at Muscular Dystrophy UK I am setting up a Working Group for young disabled people in London to learn about their experiences of finding and staying in work.

Lucy Watts MBE, 23, has an undiagnosed muscle-wasting condition and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. In her blog, she talks about training her pet dog Molly to become her official assistance dog.

So… Parenting with DMD you ask? It’s an unusual parenting experience I suppose. It’s probably not as bad as you might expect, although there are some obvious differences. There are many tasks I can’t do, this means more falls on the other person.

Roya Sattari, Iranian international student at Brunel University.

Jack McLellan, 24, from the London Borough of Havering has an undiagnosed form of muscular dystrophy. He’s spent two months on a placement in the Care, Information and Advocacy department as part of the Trailblazers work experience project Moving Up.

This week TFL announced the winners of their Accessible App competition.

Trailblazers meet for the second National Rail Accessibility Forum

For the past two years, I have been biding to get a flat from the council housing list.

N.B.: PLEASE NOTE, THAT ALL THOUGHTS, LINKS AND WORDS BELOW ARE MY OWN, AND DON’T NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CAMPAIGN / TRAILBLAZERS OR MY WORK WITH THEM.

Scropton Riding for the Disabled