Outside The Box: September 2007 - May 2008

Programme 38: Tuesday 27th May

Seonaid Dunne presents the final programme in this series.

The series ends with a special programme; a hilarious recording of comedian Francesca Martinez at Dublin's Crawdaddy. It's exclusive to Outside The Box and not to be missed! Click here for more information.

Programme 37: Tuesday 20th May

This week: Seonaid and her panel discuss disability and the developing world.

Contacts: Disabilty and Development Week: www.dochas.ie
To nominate for People of the Year Awards,
email poy@quinn-healthcare.ie

Programme 36: Tuesday 13th May

This week Olan McGowan returns to discuss the importance of advocacy.

Programme 35: Tuesday 6th May

This week, Seonaid Dunne and her panel discuss stroke and stroke services.

Programme 34: Tuesday 29th April

Seonaid Dunne and guests discuss pregnancy, childbirth and disability.

Contacts: Denise Lawler. 086 3789758. lawlerd@tcd.ie
PRAM (Peer Reasonable Assistance for Mothers)

Programme 33: Tuesday 22nd April

The lure of Lourdes.

Contacts: James Whyte: 086 8318558.

www.ihcpt.com

info@ihcpt.com

Programme 32: Tuesday 15th April

Muscular Dystrophy and the people it affects.

Contacts:
Muscular Dystrophy Ireland:
018721501
www.mdi.ie

If you would like to participate in research about maternity and disability, as mentioned in the programme, please contact Denise Lawler at 086 3789758 or email lawlerde@tcd.ie

Programme 31: Tuesday 8th April

While exploring scuba-diving and disability, Seonaid Dunne meets the inspirational Fraser Bathgate.

For further information, contact Leisureland, Galway.

www.leisureland.ie

Programme 30: Tuesday April 1st

Presented by Seonaid Dunne.
What Ireland can teach Albania about disability, and the poetry of disability.
Contact: www.peterbradleyfoundation.ie

Programme 29: 25th March 2008

Disabled people and the world of work.
Presenter: Seonaid Dunne.
Contact: www.fas.ie

Programme 28: 18th March 2008

PAD: Peripheral Arterial Disease.
Contacts: www.whatispad.ie Phone. 1800 8000 01

Programme 27: 11th March 2008
Alzheimer's; the causes, the effects and Prof. Harald Hampel from TCD talks about groundbreaking research from Ireland about early detection.

Alzheimer Society of Ireland: Helpline: 1800 341341. www.alzheimer.ie

To participate in Prof. Hampel's research, contact any of the following:

Ms. Barbara Crowe: 087 2356161 barbaracrowe1@eircom.net

Dr. Yemi Faluyi : 01 8963697 Fax: 01 8961313 faluyiy@tcd.ie

Ms. Catherine Delaney: 087 6820419 087 2356161 delanec2@tcd.ie

Programme 26: 4th March 2008
Autism and the ABA debate.

Irish Autism Action: 0449331609.
Hope Project: 021 888503.
Irish Society for Autism. 01 8744684. autism@iol.ie

Programme 25: 26th February 2008
You don't have to see to be able to ski.

NCBI: www.ncbi.ie 18550 334353

Programme 24: 19th February 2008
This week guide dogs for the blind and radio for the deaf.

Irish Guide Dogs: 1850 506300.

Programme 23: 12th February 2008
This week, a subject which always strikes a chord with our listeners: depression.

Aware Helpline: 1890 303302.
Website: www.aware.ie

Programme 22: 5th February 2008
You may have heard the expression: 'There are no bad children only bad parents!' If you find this insensitive, and need to know more about Attention Deficit and Hyper-activity Disorder, this week's programme is for you.

Website: www.hadd.ie
Email: info@hadd.ie
Tel: 01 8748349

Programme 21: 29th January 2008
What do you know about schizophrenia? What do you know about anorexia? What, in fact, do you know about mental health? You'll know a lot more by listening to this week's programme, when we examine an advertising campaign run by the National Disability Association to raise awareness about mental health.

Contacts:
Pieta House
01 6100000

Bodywhys
1890 200444
Email: info@bodywhys.ie
Website: www.bodywhys.ie

NDA
01 6080400
Website: www.nda.ie

Programme 20: 22nd January 2008
Housing crises are nothing new to disabled peopled, but in Ratoath, Co. Meath, a ray of hope shines. Young wheelchair user John Glynn journeys to the scene and investigates what's on offer, while John Scott, Project Manager of the Ratoath Independent Living Initiative, joins Olan in studio to enlighten listeners about a new apartment complex designed specifically with disabled people in mind.

Email: info@ratoathinitiative.ie
Website: www.ratoathiniative.ie

Programme 19: 15th January 2008
Cystic Fibrosis and its treatment are very much in the news at the moment, and in this week's programme, Olan McGowan's panel brings expertise and personal insights into the problems, and sometimes horror stories associated with the treatment of this condition in Ireland.

Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland. 01 4962433.

Programme 18: 8th January 2008
If you think that a programme about disability has to be serious and po-faced all the time, you'll be pleasantly surprised when award winning comedian Francesca Martinez joins Olan this week. Francesca will perform at Tripod, Dublin on March 27, 2008.

Programme 17: 1st January 2008
As we begin a new year it looks like the party known as the Celic Tiger might be over. How have people with disabiltiy fared during the boom times? David Egan of the Centre for Independent Living, Stepen McWhite, National Manager of PWDI and Des Kenny from NCBI discuss this with Olan.

Programme 16: 18th December 2007
Epilepsy: The facts and the fables, with Paul Sharkey, Des Nevin and Sinead Murphy.

Programme 15: 11th December 2007
The thorny issue of taxis for disabled is tackled tonight.

Programme 14: 4th December 2007

Programme 13: 27th November 2007

Programme 12: 20th November 2007
Shay Byrne reports from the launch of Dessa's guide to best practice for the inclusion of children with disabilities in childcare facilities.

'Sporting Chance' is a ground-breaking new training programme designed to enable people with disabilities and others who are marginalized to build careers as future coaches, leaders and managers in the sports and leisure industry. The course was devised by the National Learning Network which is a not for profit member of the Rehab group. It's based in Tralee Co Kerry. Kevin Smith, Course co ordinator, and Jim Behan who's a student on the course are in the Tralee studio to tell us a bit more about it.

Programme 11: 13th November 2007
The National Disability Authority officially launched the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design on the 16th of October in Dublin. It's the first statutory body of it's kind in the world and the aim is to improve life for the disabled and main stream population alike by improving the design behinds the buildings, products and services.

Olan is joined by Ger Craddock Director of the Centre, Michael Corbett of Mosaic and Hugh O' Neill from the Design for all Accessibility Network.

Programme 10: 6th November 2007
Ireland's Special Olympians are just back from China. We speak to Michael and Sean Keenan who were part of the Irish contingent- Michael went out as a coach and his son Sean played 5 a side soccer. RTÉ journalist Philip Bromwell was also in Bejing and he tells Olan about an experience that he describes as one of the highlights of his working life.

Olan also talks to Mike Byrne of Comreg about a new guide to communications technology that ComReg and the NDA have recently launched. Communications technology has made giant leaps in the last decade and many of the new products and services available can be used to great effect by disabled people. But do the people who could benefit most from these technologies know what's on offer?

Programme 9: 30th October 2007
Tonight Olan looks at the use of prosthetics and finds out what it's like to live with the aid of a prosthetic limb. Two of our Guest Seonaid Dunne and Jamie Andrew lost multiple limbs in accidents and use a number of prosthetics in their day to day life. Dr Nicols Ryall, consultant at the Central Remedial Clinic is also in studio.

Programme 8: 23rd October 2007
October the 10th was Mental Health Day. With an estimated 39,000 people in Ireland suffering from Schizophrenia alone it is clear that mental illness causes hardship and heartache to many people in Ireland. But it is no longer the case that a diagnosis of mental illness means saying goodbye to any hope for the future. Against great odds individuals and organisations are finding new ways to help people through mental health problems and tonight Olan's guests include 2 people one Irish and one American who were diagnosed with schizophrenia and went on to live full and satisfying lives.

Olan is also joined by Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Michael Corry who believes we can improve rates of recovery from mental illness by changing the way we understand mental health.

Our guests were Professor Elyn Saks, author of " The Centre Cannot Hold," Paddy Mc Gowan from DCU, and Dr Michael Corry, Consultant psychiatrist , founder of www.Depressiondialogues.ie and co-author of "Going Mad, Understanding Mental Illness"

Programme 7: 16th October 2007
Olan talks to Emily Logan Ombudsman for children. The office of children's Ombudsman was established 3 years ago in Ireland. The office of the Ombudsman differs from other services because it is obliged to give priority to the needs of children and young people.

29% of the issues Emily Logan has dealt with in the past 3 years have been related to young people with a disability.

Also in studio is John Glynn who is 20 years old and a member of the Ombudsman's Youth Advisory Panel.

Programme 6: 9th October 2007
The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland is working with the National Disability Authority to produce a Code of Practice for the portrayal of disability in the media. Olan takes a look at why such a thing is needed and how it might work.

Our guests were Declan Mc Laughlin of the BCI, Shari Mc Daid from the NDA and Alison Harnett who has researched the portrayal of disability in the media.

Programme 5: 2nd October 2007
Earlier this month a hundred people wheelchair users descended on the streets of Strasbourg to meet with MEPs and lobby for the rights of disabled people all over Europe. The Strasbourg Freedom Drive has become an annual event.

Olan looks at how disabled people can lobby together for improved conditions for people living with a disability in Europe .

Our guests were Carloota Bezzozzi, the Director of the European Disability Forum in Brussels, David Egan of Independent Living in Ireland and Brian Crowley MEP.

Programme 4: 25th September 2007
Recently a group of self advocates with intellectual disabilities came together to look at issues around bullying. Based at the National Institute for Intellectual Disability the group ran a highly successful workshop some weeks ago for 30 people. More than 100 people were on a waiting list to take part.

Our guests were Nina and Ross who are prominent members of the group and Dr Kelley Johnson from the National Institute for Intellectual Disability at Trinity College Dublin.

Programme 3: 18th September 2007
Sean Connick, TD, Ireland's first wheelchair-user TD, was our interviewee tonight. He discusses the change of lifestyle in becoming a TD, his relationship with the disability movement and disability issues in general, getting used to Parliamentary procedures as well as outlining how Leinster House has been adapted to suit the requirements of wheelchair users.

Also featured tonight was Rosita Wolfe, head of marketing communications for the National Concert Hall, Dublin, who spoke about their recent publication of an audio calendar for people who are blind or have visual impairments.

www.nch.ie

Programme 2: 11th September 2007
Tonight the accessibility of heritage sites around Ireland was discussed with particular focus on how access might be improved for people with disabilities. Guests included:

• Shari McDaid, National Disability Authority
• Angela Rolfe, Assistant Principal Architect,Architectural Services, Office of Public Works..
• Cassie Herschel-Shorland NRAC Consultant, Access Consultant Buro Happold engineers London
  

Programme 1: 4th September 2007
In this show, we discussed in detail what the disabled student should be looking to do in preparation for entry into third level education. The guests included:

• Pat Hoey, Disability Officer from DCU
  
• Mary O'Grady disability officer from UCC
  
• Anne Heelan, director of AHEAD, The Association for Higher
• Education Access and Disability.
  
• Julie O' Leary Student of applied psychology, UCC