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As well as being a freelance writer I am also a qualified counsellor and I work for a low cost counselling service in Exeter and for the NHS Gender Clinic also in Exeter.

Simultaneously, I work as a Disability Member of the First Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber sitting on disability benefit tribunals on an ad hoc basis.

As a writer I specialise in writing about disability and health.

My articles have been published in the Guardian, Times, OUCH! [BBC disability website], Disability Now, Broadcast, Lifestyle [Motability magazine], The Practising Midwife, 'Junior, Pregnancy & Baby', Writers' News, Able, Getting There [Transport for London magazine], Junior, Community Care, DPPi [Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood International]. I have also had articles commissioned by Daily Mail.

For more information about me and for examples of my writing please see below.

If you would like me to write an article for your publication, about any aspect of disability, please do get in touch:

emma@emmabowler.co.uk

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Olympic Torch Fever!

You'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel a little tiny bit of excitement about the Olympics coming to London now the Torch is winding its way through the country. 

We saw Torch Bearer Colin Edwards carry the torch in our local area on Sunday.  The atmosphere was fabulous.

Here's me with Colin - he's a leg amputee who is currently running the 630 mile South Devon Coast Path to raise money for limb charity Port-er.  

Actually, there are some great stories of disabled people who are carrying the torch and given that we are still very underepresented in the media generally I hope this is an opportunity for people to see us in a positive light, as people who are getting on with and enjoying life.

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