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What counts as disability?

mcspanna · 2008-10-19 00:22:14

Hope no one minds but it struck me that we needed this thread. Since 1995 when the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) came into being, whether or not someone 'counts' as being a disabled person tends to be decided by the legal definition of disability in the DDA, the following information is cut and pasted from here, I've…

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Ophie Posts: 5,008 Forumite

16 January 2014 at 9:00PM

iKit thank you, that was very useful.

I have contacted a disability representative and he will be accompanying me to the tribunal, but we're waiting for a date. They did state on the letter it could take up to 29 weeks before a date is allocated.

I saw two shooting stars last night

I wished on them but they were only satellites

Is it wrong to wish on space hardware

I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care

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