Donna was 26 when she tried to take her own life by jumping from the 16th floor of her condominium block. It was 2011 two years after she graduated from university in Australia and she had just managed to break off from what she'd describe as an emotionally abusive relationship. Falling into a deep depression, she harboured suicidal.
Claire Teo started losing her vision at the age of four. She tells CNA how her dream of being a star transformed into doing more for people with disabilities.
SINGAPORE - Youth volunteers are being paired up with students from the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (Minds) as travel buddies, in a new push to help those with intellectual disabilities travel independently on public transport. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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A federal appeals court said Alabama can't execute Joseph Clifton Smith, 52, a man with an IQ in the 70s, as the court ruled that he is intellectually disabled and that his death sentence is unconstitutional.