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Disability news round up: vibrating dance floor, football helps fan's depression

Dan Slipper Dan Slipper | 10:36 UK time, Friday, 2 September 2011

Lee Pearson riding Blue Circle Boy at the 2004 Paralympic Games.

With a year to go to the Paralympics, dressage gold medal winner Lee Pearson has called on administrators and other competitors to be more .

It was announced a would visit London in October.

The event already has a dedicated following in the Netherlands, Finland, South Africa and Australia and includes a vibrating dance floor, aroma jockeys who spray different scents to accompany the music, and signing dancers who interpret tracks.

And in an from his new book on the Guardian website, journalist and lifelong Spurs fan John Crace explained how football helps him live with depression.

Elsewhere in the news:

Disability assessments 'will be fair' (´óÏó´«Ã½ News)

Disability allowance 'a necessity, not luxury (´óÏó´«Ã½ News)

Cinema subtitle glasses give promise to deaf film fans (´óÏó´«Ã½ News)

UK stem cell stroke trial passes first safety test (´óÏó´«Ã½ News)

(Sky News)

(The Guardian)

(The Guardian)

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(The Guardian)

(The Independent)

(The Independent)

(The Daily Telegraph)

Tacit wrist-mounted device helps the visually impaired see (Gadgets and Gizmos)

(Nigerian Tribune)

(Radio Australia)

(Hollywood Reporter)

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