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.

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.

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.

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.

People who look after their highly disabled adult family members are at last in line to be paid by the Government - but only the minimum wage.

A disabled passenger says he was barred from boarding a flight after he missed check-in by three minutes when his electric wheelchair broke down.

The daughter of a disabled woman who starved herself to death said the media spotlight on her mother's actions deepened her resolve to die.

A flight from Auckland was delayed when one of Air NZ's "gold elite" passengers refused to give up her front-row seat to accommodate a wheelchair-bound woman.

Special-needs students will begin the new term with another potentially disruptive change in taxi companies used to take them to and from school.

Neelusha Memon loves pushing herself to the absolute limit.