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The best thing for me about blogging for Ouch is how we've been contacted by other disabled bloggers who want to share their stories. People who have just started a blog, who are thinking about it, or who have one they want to tell people about.

Rudy Sims has spent a decade blogging from America and over the past two years he's been putting together . He was finding it difficult to find online resources for living with Cerebral Palsy and chronic pain. So he decided to provide a site for those looking for disability news or information about their own disabilities.

Rudy uses several different search engines and more than 200 different news sources to find content to post on the site. Navigating it is like finding a treasure trove of news feeds all at once. Clear layout ensures you get right to where you want to be. Latest health items are on the main page. Then if you look at the links on the right, you'll find a huge spectrum of topics related to disability issues.

Plus there are links to separate blogs on specific conditions, all of which Rudy has created and updates himself. Each is like a specialist news feed in itself. I asked Rudy to give us the lowdown. He said: "I love doing research and helping people. One of my biggest problems is I don't type very well due to my disability.
"I have to get someone to type long responses, and that's why I don't write a lot on my blog. So the best way I can help others is to point them to helpful resources.
"I have Cerebral Palsy and am dealing with chronic pain, but found it very difficult to find helpful information and resources. I wanted to provide a place where I could point people to information relevant to their disabilities."

As noted when she reviewed Disapedia, it's contributions that really make a site grow. And Rudy is keen for people to contact him:

"My website is what I do with my free time. It actually started ten years ago as a personal site I created when I was in high school. I then went to college for two years. My hope was to be a counselling psychologist, but due to chronic pain I had to drop out.
"This is my full time job. As the site gets more popular I hope I can get people to add their own personal stories and experiences, which will hopefully help others. I am working on a personal blog to share my own experience and I hope to get my Mom to contribute her experience of raising three children with disabilities."

Email Rudy at info@disablityblog.info

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