KFC has been contacting laid off disabled workers with offers of re-employment. Some workers have leaped at the chance but at least five turned it down.

Cerebral palsy is no obstacle for 16-year-old Auckland schoolboy Kieran Lane, who will run alongside his sporting and celebrity heroes as part of a transtasman race this month.

Muskan Devta admits she sometimes talks too much. She also writes a lot and can often be found hunkered down with a good book at the library.

Disabled workers who were axed from their jobs at KFC are being offered their positions back with the company.

Disney is changing the rules that allow disabled people to skip the queues at its United States theme parks.

Hinewehi Mohi established Auckland's Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre after seeing how music helped her severely disabled daughter Hineraukatauri, who has cerebral palsy.

As founder and a trustee of The CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust, Catriona Williams is focused on funding research.

Sophie Pascoe trains about 26 hours in six days a week, has won a bundle of gold medals at the highest level and is among the country's best-known sports women.

An elderly man with arthritis in his fingers was denied help pumping petrol at a service station despite signs saying the station would assist the disabled.

Minnie Baragwanath has been labelled "disabled" since she was a teenager.

In October 1989 a scooter accident changed Lee Warn's life forever - but not in the way you would expect.

Like most young people, Travers Brown wants his independence.

A Northland case poised to set a legal precedent nationwide for the classification of Segways could drag on until the end of the year.

Fragile X Syndrome is a huge part of the lives of Michael Hori and Janine Ryder.

Damien Grant writes about how caring for a disabled relative must be a great burden on a family.

The Law Society has raised serious concerns about controversial new legislation which would prevent carers of disabled family members from taking legal action.

Bank bigness may be an over-rated quality, according to financial research firm, Canstar, writes David Chaplin."If a bank does start to bleed seriously, a government transfusion will not be guaranteed."

Airlines - and able-bodied passengers - have a real economic incentive to ensure disabled embarkation operates smoothly.

Prime Minister John Key has defended the urgent passing of controversial legislation which restricted who could be paid for caring for disabled family members.

On any number of counts, the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill represents a particularly sorry piece of law-making.

The Government has been accused of undemocratic law-making after a controversial bill was passed without public input and with official advice heavily censored.

A young, profoundly deaf Auckland man has had a special welcome to a training centre - his fellow students have been learning sign language in preparation for his arrival.

A bill which allows people who cared for disabled family members to get paid by the Govt has passed into law a day after being introduced amid protest about its narrow scope, lack of consultation, and possible discrimination.

Auckland Transport has had to ticket one of its own vehicles after an employee parked illegally in a mobility space.