A Kiwi invention is helping the blind to see - virtually.

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.

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.

A group of long-serving KFC workers are being forced out of their jobs during a restructure which a union claims is deliberately targeting workers with disabilities.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.