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A Bromley man is the first blind person in the UK to achieve a level two fitness instructor award.
James O’Driscoll (pictured), 36, from Larkfield Close, Bromley, gained his Level two Fitness Instructor award whilst being a trainee on the London Sports Forum for Disabled People’s coach-ability programme.
The programme is funded by the London Development Agency 2012 opportunity fund, and is a coach training programme and employment project with the aim of increasing the number of disabled people employed as sports coaches by 2012.
Shaun Powell, coach-ability project manager said: “We are delighted by James’ personal achievement and the long term outcome to ensure blind trainees can become fitness instructors.
“We will embed this good practise model to ensure disabled people have the same coaching opportunities in all sports as non-disabled people.”
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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