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Mohammed Rashid is a visually impaired father of three sighted children aged 10, 5 and 3. Here he talks to Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood Information Officer, Gill Lea-Wilson, about being a father and role model to his growing children.
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Mohammed Rashid from Birmingham, UK, has been blind since birth and has a five-year-old son, Iftikhar, who is sighted. Mohammed talked to Shanta Everington about his experiences of fatherhood and other people’s attitudes to him as a blind paren...
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Bryan Scatchard, a new father with rheumatoid arthritis, from Lincolnshire, UK, talked to Shanta Everington about the joys and challenges of parenthood.
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Steve Westrop, from Essex, UK, describes his experiences working with his child's school to make it more accessible for him as a disabled parent.
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Chris McMillan, a visually impaired parent from Reading in the UK introduces her friend, Ye Zijie, a visually impaired father from China.
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Jeanette Lee, the co-founder and coordinator of Parents with a Disability Community Network at Yooralla in Melbourne, Australia, describes how the project came about, its successes to date and goals for the future.
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Neil Matheson, from Vancouver, Canada, talks about his journey into fatherhood as a man with cerebral palsy.
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Ian Popperwell, UK, writes about the attitudes and discrimination faced by disabled parents, and how he has tackled being a visually impaired father.
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Russell Hine, from Bedford, UK, talked to Shanta Everington about being diagnosed with schizophrenia after the birth of his son. He describes how his mental health affected his role as a father, and how he managed to create a new path and build a pos...
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Paul Martin, a father of two from Bedford, UK, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when his first child, Lucas Max, was 18 months old. Paul describes his emotional journey facing the diagnosis as a father and shares a poem that he wrote after...
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Tim Rushby-Smith from London, UK, describes his experience of sudden disability and the challenges of becoming a father just months later.
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