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Riding blind, the nurse turned patient tackling a 5,000km horse ride without sight
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Rowena Dowling was a registered nurse working in a busy Brisbane hospital when she lost her sight almost three decades ago.
Before she is deaf, Kylie wants to complete her bucket list of sounds
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Someday soon Kylie Webb will visit a specialist and her world will fall silent.
She doesn't know how much longer she will hear. It might be months or years.
These are the sounds she wants to remember.
Blind, non-verbal man raises money for child victims of domestic violence with 96km walk
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Anyone who has driven up the Sunshine Coast from Pelican Waters to Noosa knows it's not just a quick trip up the road to grab milk — in a car it can take more than an hour.
Children with disability moving states to access education opportunities
As the school year is about to begin across Australia, some students are settling into life in a new state so they can access education opportunities not available to them at home. Victorian mother Elizabeth Ellis has moved to Brisbane with her 9-year-old son Murray who has speech apraxia. Ms Ellis said Murray had been communicating using Auslan for several years and multiple specialists said he needed Auslan in the classroom. She said using Auslan was helping teach Murray to speak and meant he felt included when he was with other people who signed. "To his mental wellbeing, it is...
Blind, deaf, 88yo grandfather launches music career on YouTube to beat isolation blues
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When Barry "Bazza" Morris took up music lessons at 84, he wasn't searching for fame.