A senior nurse who roughly undressed an elderly mental health patient, made derogatory comments about her, left her sitting naked in a bath and kneed her in her back has been fined nearly $30,000.

There are dogs that see for the blind and those that hear for the deaf - but for the first time in New Zealand young pups are being trained to assist people with severe epilepsy.

An Auckland mother says she is subjected to abuse and insults by elderly strangers for using mobility parks because her brain-damaged son "doesn't look disabled".

Child care law changes sought by lobby group after children denied right to family life.

An intellectually disabled teenager has lost a Supreme Court battle for a share in his stepfather's $2.2 million estate because he was unborn when his mother married.

Thousands of people may be ending up on the wrong side of the law due to an alcohol-related brain disability caused before birth, a New Zealand judge says.

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.

The Labour Party is calling on the Human Rights Commission to investigate concerns that disabled workers are losing their jobs at KFC because of its restructuring policy.

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.

Parking in a mobility space without displaying your parking permit is just plain rude, but that doesn't stop some thoughtless able-bodied drivers, writes Shelley Bridgeman.

Booking a last-minute taxi is impossible for Aucklanders confined to wheelchairs, a Herald on Sunday survey has revealed. And when they do get a taxi, they are charged extra.

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.