{"id":3666,"date":"2022-07-15T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:37:04","slug":"non-visible-disability-initiative-event-22-july-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2022\/07\/15\/non-visible-disability-initiative-event-22-july-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Visible Disability Initiative Event 22 July 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-visible disabilities are associated with a range of health conditions, including Parkinson&#8217;s disease. People may experience symptoms that are not immediately obvious or observable such as anxiety, depression, cognitive problems, fatigue, pain, changes to taste or smell, and bladder or bowel function.<\/p>\n<p>People with non-visible disabilities can face challenges accessing what they need which impacts their everyday life. They can also experience humiliation and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Medway Non-Visible Disabilities Initiative (NVDi) aims to raise awareness and acceptance of non-visible disabilities in the community, to promote inclusiveness and support people to live well with non-visible disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us on July 22nd for an awareness event to showcase the work of NVDi.<\/p>\n<p>We will be giving a presentation at the event on supporting people with neurological conditions who experience non-visible disabilities. We hope to see some of you there!<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the event here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medwaynvdi.org.uk\/nvdi-in-action-event\">NVDi Awareness Event (medwaynvdi.org.uk)<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2022\/07\/parkinsons-cafe-1024x683-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3668\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2022\/07\/parkinsons-cafe-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-visible disabilities are associated with a range of health conditions, including Parkinson&#8217;s disease. People may experience symptoms that are not immediately obvious or observable such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2022\/07\/15\/non-visible-disability-initiative-event-22-july-2022\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76805,"featured_media":3667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118123,229063],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}