VOICE will be running five online events Sep – Oct 2023

September 12th, 2023

 

 

Are you interested in taking part in a series of free online workshops relating to disability issues? Independent Living Movement Ireland’s VOICE project will be running five workshops on Wednesday evenings from 7-8pm, starting on 13 September. They will be open to all disabled people in Cork, Kerry, Tipperary, Wexford, Carlow, Waterford and Kilkenny. The workshops are introductions to topics that are relevant to disabled people:

1. Medical model of disability – 13 September

2. Social model of disability – 20 September

3. Intersectionality and unconscious bias – 27 September

4. Housing and Housing and Disability Steering Groups (HDSGs) – 4 October

5. Collective action and disabled persons’ organisations (DPOs) – 11 October

For more info and to register,

email nicolameacle@ilmi.ie

https://ilmi.ie/

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Muscular Dystrophy Ireland CLG
75 Lucan Road, Chapelizod, Dublin D20 DR77
Telephone: 1800 245 300

Registered Charity Number: 20012038
CHY Charity Number: 6849
Company Number: 60460
Country of registration: Ireland

1. Muscular Dystrophies

  • Becker muscular dystrophy
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy
  • Manifesting carrier of Duchenne
  • Congenital muscular dystrophy
  •     •  General
  •     •  MDC1A (merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy)
  •     •  Rigid spine syndrome (RSS)
  •     •  Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophies
  •     •  Bethlem myopathy
  • Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy
  • Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
  • Limb-girdle types of muscular dystrophy (LGMD)
  •     •  General
  •     •  LGMD 1B (also known as Laminopathy)
  •     •  LGMD 1C (also known as Caveolinopathy)
  •     •  LGMD 2A (also known as Calpainopathy)
  •     •  LGMD 2B (also known as Dysferlinopathy)
  •     •  LGMD 2I
  • Ocular myopathies including ocularopharangeal muscular dystrophy

2. Myotonic Disorders

  • Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
  • Myotonia
  • Myotonic Dystrophy

3. Congenital Myopathies

  • Central Core Myopathy
  • Congenital Fibre-type Disproportion Myopathy
  • Minicore (Multicore) myopathy
  • Myotubular or Centronuclear myopathy
  • Nemaline myopathy

4. Mitochondrial Myopathies

  • Mitochondrial Myopathies

5. Metabolic Disorders

  • Metabolic disorders (general)
  • McArdle’s Disease
  • Pompe’s Disease

6. Periodic Paralyses

  • Periodic Paralyses

7. Autoimmune Myositis

  • Polymyositis, Dermatomyositis and Sarcoid myopathy
  • Juvenile dermatomyositis
  • Inclusion body myositis

8. Spinal Muscular Atrophies

  • Severe (Type I)
  • Intermediate (Type II)
  • Mild (Type III)
  • Adult spinal muscular atrophy

9. Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies

  • (Also known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth or Peroneal muscular atrophy)

10. Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction

  • Congenital myasthenic syndromes
  • Myasthenia Gravis

11. Friedreich’s Ataxia

  • Friedreich’s Ataxia

12. Other (Please Specify)

13. Unspecified