Blogs we like
We have selected a number of blogs we think you may find interesting. Please note that we are not responsible for the content of external sites.
Community Care Adult Care Blog
The Adult Care Blog is part of Community Care, a site for social care professionals. Edited by Mithran Samuel, it "looks behind the policies, practices and personalities involved in the care of older and disabled people for any hidden truths, helpful tips or humour". You can get updates and a great selection of retweets on Twitter at twitter.com/comcareadults.
The Limping Chicken
Excellent deaf news and blogs site edited by journalist Charlie Swinburne. You can keep up to date with it on Twitter @Limping_Chicken.
The Broken Of Britain
A non-partisan UK-based disability campaign blog providing advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions.
Deafblind Interact
A site produced by a group of UK deafblind women. Its “reflections” section features excellent writing on subjects as varied as social care, what makes an interpreter good or bad, deafblind survivors of the Japanese tsunami and the impossibility of finding an accessible flat to move into.
Benefit Scrounging Scum
An insightful, upbeat and personal blog from a young adult with a disability.
Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
Sue Marsh, who has severe Crohn's Disease set up Diary of a Benefit Scrounger to raise awareness of life with a chronic illness, and to campaign against cuts in social care and benefits for people with disabilities. Sue is also a prolific tweeter @suey2y.
Patrick Butler's cuts watch
Patrick writes an ongoing analysis of public spending in The Guardian blog, focusing on who gets bitten by the cuts.
Deaf-Blind and Determined
Angela C Orlando writes in her often powerful and moving blog that she is "the world's coolest deaf-blind soprano saxophonist" and that being a deaf-blind mother is like being any other mother.
Journey of a Deaf/Blind Man
Engaging new blog by a young man with Usher syndrome who works as a massage therapist in Mississippi. His writing focuses on coming to terms with his worsening vision, caused by retinitis pigmentosa.
The Blindo Diaries
We like to dip into the Blindo Diaries for real insights on blindness from New Jersey and they also have good links to other tweets.
