Award Winning Observations of a Disabled Person
Has how disabled people are portrayed by our the media changed over the last seventeen years?
I was incredibly proud when I graduated from university in 2002 and was asked to feature in a piece for the local media. I knew instinctively what the right story was. I was simply a student who had accomplished a difficult challenge through his own hard work and with the proper support.
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