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...Special. Ahead of the Paralympics in Japan, the BBC's disability correspondent introduces us to five people who have experienced important moments in the...

Funeral services for Shannon Leann Maine, 38, of Lexington will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, March 25, 2022 at the Wilson-Little Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be at the Lexington Cemetery under …

Van Phillips, the principal at Center Point High School will retire this semester after devoting nearly 40 years to education.

Has increased function, decreased weight and increased strength. the foot has to be able to endure all kinds of different climates. we're calling it the world foot. world foot for all countries, for all peoples everywhere. and when i think of all the amputees in the world that i can actually share that, there was never a greaterjoy than that for me. van phillips on the invention which revolutionised parasports. our next witness was a bit of a pioneer herself. in 1960, margaret maughan surprised even herself when she became a gold—medallist at the first paralympic games in rome. but it all st...

Coming up: a medallist who competed at the first paralympic games. we'll hear about the special olympics for those with learning disabilities. away from sport, we'll find out why students at america's deaf only university shut down their campus. plus, we'll hear about the specially designed car for disabled people that was both terrifying and exhilarating. but first, when sports enthusiast van phillips lost his leg during an accident, he became immediately frustrated by the clumsy prosthetics on offer. determined to run again, he went on to invent the first carbon graphite prosthetic running l...