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Citi South Africa Disability Career Expo, Nasrec, 24 – 25 May 2022

Career Expo, In Focus, In the News / Disability Connect

The Citi South Africa Disability Career Expo is South Africa’s largest gathering for promoting and enabling employment opportunities for people with disabilities. The event brings together 1200 learners, graduates and entrepreneurs living with disabilities. Corporate exhibitors showcase various opportunities ranging from bursaries, skills development programmes and jobs to the invited guests. This year’s exhibitors include […]

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Assistive tech startup led by former NASA engineer uses an AI ‘parrot’ to help people with disabilities

Assistive Technology, Product Reviews, Uncategorized / Disability Connect

BY CHARLOTTE SCHUBERT David Hojah is a former NASA engineer, but his real passion is healthcare. Growing up, he saw his family members taking care of his aunt, who had multiple sclerosis, and his uncle, who had a spinal cord injury. Now, he’s developing tech to help people with disability have more independence. The company

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Improving STEM access for those with disability

Assistive Technology, Product Reviews / Disability Connect

Customised electronic toolkits designed to improve STEM accessibility for those with intellectual disabilities have been developed by Monash University researchers. TronicBoards, created by researchers from the Faculty of Information Technology (IT), are a range of customised colour-coded printed circuit boards with large controls and recognisable symbols adapted to facilitate easy circuit-making for diverse intellectual abilities.

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Long Covid: How 3 SA insurance companies are handling sickness, disability claims and life cover

In Focus / Disability Connect

A growing number of people globally are reporting living with long Covid – a pervasive condition that persists after the acute stage of Covid-19 has passed. Research has identified more than 100 million long haulers, and around 200 long Covid symptoms, the most debilitating and commonly reported of which are fatigue, breathing difficulty, and cognitive

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SA-born athlete runs 104 marathons in 104 days, set for Guinness World Record

In Focus, Lifestyle / Disability Connect

South African-born runner Jacky Hunt-Broersma, who lost her leg to cancer, is now set to be entered into the Guinness World Record books after completing 104 marathons in as many days. Hunt-Broersma began her challenge in mid-January, running around 42 kilometers a day, according to a report by the BBC. She currently resides in Arizona,

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Diversity in the workplace has helped a lot of marginalized communities, but only ‘healthy’ ones, says Maria Alexandrou

Corporate Showcase, In the workplace / Disability Connect

Written by Laurie O’Garro Laurie O’Garro from Woman and Home had a sit down interview with Maria Alexandrou. Read below on how Maria plans to help create diversity in the workplace for marginalized communities. Maria Alexandrou was diagnosed early in life with kidney disease. She was born in South Africa to Greek Cypriot parents and

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Evacuating disabled refugees is Tulsan’s new mission in Ukraine: ‘The best protection is to get them out

In Focus, In the News / Disability Connect

Carrie Moss has dedicated her life to helping people with disabilities. It’s the reason she went to Ukraine in the first place. It’s what’s kept her there for the last eight years. But the Tulsa native’s skills as a physical therapist are not what her patients need most from her right now. Since Russia’s invasion

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Pacing at Two Oceans was to make para-sport visible – blind Paralympic runner

In Focus, In the News / Disability Connect

by Palesa Manaleng The recent TotalSports Two Oceans Marathon focused on the top contenders with Gerda Steyn, winning the women’s category and Edndale Belachew winning the men’s category. What some may not know is that Paralympic medalist, Louzanne Coetzee, along with her guide, Claus Kempen, were pacers in the Two Oceans Half Marathon race for runners

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Managing an employee with disability

Corporate Showcase, In the workplace / Disability Connect

Managing an employee with disabilities need not be any different than managing an employee without a disability. Watch as we receive tips on how to go about this process, including but certainly not limited to induction processes:

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Moms disability grant desperation

In Focus, In the News / Disability Connect

Two moms from Mitchells Plain have been struggling to renew their grants for their severely disabled children after the grant status changed to “temporary disabled” when the children in question turned 18. Ibtisaam Clarke, from Westridge, explained that her son Mogamat Zaakir Clarke, 19, was left brain-damaged after an accident when he was 4. Clarke

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Citi South Africa Disability Career Expo, Nasrec, 24 – 25 May 2022

Assistive tech startup led by former NASA engineer uses an AI ‘parrot’ to help people with disabilities

Improving STEM access for those with disability

Long Covid: How 3 SA insurance companies are handling sickness, disability claims and life cover

SA-born athlete runs 104 marathons in 104 days, set for Guinness World Record

Diversity in the workplace has helped a lot of marginalized communities, but only ‘healthy’ ones, says Maria Alexandrou

Evacuating disabled refugees is Tulsan’s new mission in Ukraine: ‘The best protection is to get them out

Pacing at Two Oceans was to make para-sport visible – blind Paralympic runner

Managing an employee with disability

Moms disability grant desperation

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