August 2017 - John Duthie

History of disability – How people with a disability were treated by society?

August 27, 2017 by John Duthie

History of disability – something that interested me Australia is celebrating the Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week during September 4 – 10 2017. Recently I read that people experiencing a SCI (Spinal Cord Injury) before World War II were likely to have died. The medical knowledge of SCI was lacking, and then scores of soldiers experienced … Read more

Disability Book Project – ‘MY disABILITIES’ – an exciting new book project

August 19, 2017 by John Duthie

Disability Book Project introduction To help with my own memoir, I read over 25 books. With the except of a few, they didn’t share what it is like living with a disability. I commenced a disability book project entitled “MY disABILITIES” with the vision “To encourage people with a disability, and to improve the knowledge … Read more