Disability Awareness Month

July 26, 2018

July is Disability Awareness Month. During this month the SWBH Disability and Long Term Conditions Staff Network want to take the opportunity to highlight people with a disability or long term conditions who haven’t let their disability or long term condition stop them from being successful.

Today we look at Wilma Rudolph who contracted infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) at the age of four. She recovered from polio, but lost strength in her left leg and foot, wearing a leg brace until she was eight years old. Undeterred she went on to become an accomplished sprinter and was the first American woman, and African-American woman, to win three gold medals in one Olympic Games.