or exploiting the ocean floor. cutting edge technology is unlocking the potential of deep sea mining. but this time, a research team will study the possible risk 1st. in order to minimize them. we have an opportunity to, to get it right before we even start environmental activists or skeptical after a whole. there are billions to be made. our 2 parts documentary, deep sea greed, starts to think on d, w. the fee is a spinal cord injury and needs walking age, meaning who was born with a disability affecting her coordination. paulina has a vision loss and luca and julia have learning disabilities. they tell these stories that move in this edition of data, we use health magazine. the estimated

beginning of the people in the mood to live with disabilities would makes them not difficult, is openness that them the way they are treated by other people, all society in general. but let's hear from them. i'm in good shape. the . ready people with disabilities sometimes faced outright, chose tennessee physical assault, insulting junk remarks. but other behavior is also being the thing. if people with disabilities are continually depicted as victims, when the companions are dressed but not themselves,

when hope is forced on them, even though they never asked for it. or when they are confronted with exaggerated displays of sympathy, as if the lives with next, with living. most people with disabilities strongly disagree. whenever sophie holland, him dances, she takes her mobility aids with her. she's been partially paralyzed from the waist down since 2017. but that didn't stop the 23 year old from pursuing her dream. a career as a dancer tends to dancing to me is something that comes from deep with the in the, in the us. it's a passion that i live in a language that i can speak for, which i need know, what was the doctor's office. she expresses herself on stages across germany. it hasn't been easy to get this far. she had to reinvent yourself as a dancer. she began training at

a dance academy in dresden and when she was 126 years later, doctors discovered a spinal abscess. bucks and emergency operation came too late. the abscess and partially severed her spinal cord resulting in what's called incomplete paraplegia and leaving her with the question, what now had to and they were known as diagnosed. i manifested very blatant avoidance behavior. idle high i said for me in the life i've chosen, it's out of the question that i'll never be able to work again. i guess, let alone never be able to dance again. some time i wanted to be in control of my life, of my body, of deciding what i do is my life is also my labor martha. this determination is evident both on and off the stage when she's not dancing. she enjoys spending time in the countryside near her home and dressed and she relies on her mental strength and other physical abilities. so if you hollen him refuses to

be defined by her disability, begin the disability or characteristics i'm so is being show to not being able to reach the cup of the or having sensitive skin and needing some fact to 50 rather than 30. that's how it was with me. i just have to learn to cope with my new traits that also gave. and she successfully carving out a career as a professional dancer. sophie how and him works with choreographer who develops inclusive pieces for dancers with and without disabilities. her goal is to convey the liberating nature of dance regardless of physical limitations. right? found this different, my dream has definitely come true. i live the life of a down. so i guess around, i get to see a lot of cities and to meet great people all the time came down. and so i'm living

the sort of life i wish full not only completely differently than i imagined. look, and i love, but that doesn't make use any worse, especially on the choreography she's currently rehearsing as entitled balance. it's about finding your footing over and over again. so if you how and how most certainly found a firm footing in life with downs, the technology is developing at a breast taking pace. some people find that strengthening, they fear losing their jobs. but the advances also provide opportunities. for example, x can age people with vision impairments when they're out shopping or help them to recognize the faces of friends. unfair expression, artificial intelligence can open up whole new perspectives. let's take

a look at an example from india. b new money that allows learning how to use computers and artificial intelligence. a few years ago, she couldn't even hold a pen. the 24 year old from caroline and southern india was born with a physical disability. and i had a lot of problems with my balance. my head was always pulling from one side to the other, completely uncontrollably. i could never keep my balance all sit up straight. thanks to therapy, old i to improve. it, saved my life. that then thing i have things to an innovative i t project, a 100 people with physical and mental disabilities. now have job prospect new money that it has learned to coordinate the fingers of her right hand. this enables her

to operate the computer keyboard and she's now learning to enter data and create data tags. this data forms the basis for programs that use artificial intelligence . and she'll soon be among those contributing to advances in this new technology. this is, i never thought that i would be able to learn all these things even be able to work and the only industry i just wanted to do my best every day. and then all of a sudden the opportunity came to work here was computers in the that was the move and i realized what i was capable of fled up for the company was founded by robin thomas, who's worked in the industry for many years, for one of his projects, he visited a school specifically for people with disabilities. he realized that what they were lacking most were any real prospects for the future. me sort of giving them now hope and own but not what we have to create an ecosystem for them to bring this

change, sustain the scene and bring us us. so i forgot to call me behind it. so that's the, that's why you were committed to do that because we cannot leave them just some technology getting degree. think that technology back to the society. we're bringing people together and see does it go system so that everyone can contribute to that? it was the foundation is late here at the therapy center here in the new money lot is working on her motor skills. the focus is mainly on her strong hand, the right one. or because this training method takes the form of the game, it distracts or a bed from the pain. she experiences doing the exercise that busy and then and then i only improve when i train constantly. at 1st i cried and i did nothing that now i'm so happy about my progress. i almost don't care about the pain any move in the city, but about

a little bit. robin tommy is overjoyed to see the strides made by the children and young adults. here. he succeeded in attracting numerous companies as donors and cooperation partners. the money is mainly invested in new technology for any special education setting, even he goes to the a based gave me fight that the system do you think is a lot of insight on the therapist. so what needs to be taken care whether it's his upper body? no valve body goes model fine motor. the motor that's kind of mine students we, we define mino, moneys eyes also studies at home for her new job in her room. she often spends hours practicing computer commands and english vocabulary meanings, and that's the discipline grammar. they can use the other bins, let's say they get now and she says, all that effort is paying off feeling valued like this is a great incentive for her to keep going with the,

the good. i managed to listen to gross things, but we can look at the beginning. i thought it was impossible, but we find the book better. that's on the side. and now i'm being trained in the i t 6. so that's something else i would have thought completely impossible, not long ago. but now i know what time really capable of know because uh they can none of that to the start of another strenuous day. meanwhile, money lies being taken to the therapy and training center, where she'll again go beyond her pain threshold and have to overcome numerous hurdles. and she's already learned a valuable lesson to never underestimate her own abilities. every 5 seconds, somebody in the world experiences vision loss. 9 out of 10 of those who are affected live in low middle income countries. inadequate health care or mail

nutrition, often to blame vision. those can result in a vicious circle without schooling, training or a job. many of those effected or condemned to life in poverty. and we'll see countries the situation is less extreme, but there's too much to do. germany's national organization for people with visual impairments, for instance, has highlighted the danger electric calls pulse because they to client they might be many more problems elsewhere in the world. but it shows how the needs of people with disabilities often get in front of time to raise awareness. usually you use a mirror to put on makeup pouting a creek or a city, a vision loss. she had to re learn the process by feel cutting last move, i can only see 0.01 percent is that if you can even tell me when i could still see something, i like to do my makeup since becoming blind. i've learned what movements to make

you. i've trained myself to do it on. i have to decide if i'm putting it. it's all a matter of practice, but it's still good to have a sister cook checking. is that okay? the orbit high up on the social media optic talk the 19 year old shift to everyday life with the whole world like it's been pushed. imagine you're blind. the person comes up to you and tells you you're putting what will you do then? of course, at the beginning and say thank you, talk to them, then you say you are too low. so what should i do? except on the phone, i started doing it back in 2020, just for fun because many people have written to me asking me how i cope them all. i can be blind and yet not quote unquote, sofa items and food solution. the system had and i found i can motivate people with

my videos and make them laugh and to some of them going to show clips, get a lot of clicks. one video you can go type a 1000000 that her mother was a bunch of the joke. we've had moved them out. she was begging of the car and she awesome. mm hm. is anyone behind us and then the thing and everyone was like, well, and she forgot my lines, just leave it and i just played along with the opposite. no, mom my best. no one is all clear called to us out then stopped and just started laughing. marina nichol can handle it. the mother and daughter had been through a lot together. numerous doctors visits and treatments. some of them abroad, like the one in cuba, the 12 and it was also a very stressful, scary. what was happening. live us proceeds versus adult trip. cool. shed those fish and worried about her own future. kind of you all right. i called icons book. i won't get a boyfriend. i'm not going to have children and stuff like that. yeah,

i'm a fish. michelle. i also wondered why i got this disease and up my siblings or someone else who's probably in a nick who has come to accept things. well, it's more she's married and is about to have a baby. she's had a lot of practice often looking after her little sister have been with us. i saw what was involved to come have i have helped out a lot. so i said to myself, it looks as if i can also change diapers despite the vision loss and new challenges are on the horizon. and no doubt new stories for take talk to people with vision loss often seem to have other enhanced sensory skills. for example, they might be able to hear how far away a call is or feel when a subway train is approaching. sometimes what is regarded as an invitation can give

rise to read and special skills. working send to meet or by send to meet her. her hands can detect life threatening changes early jennifer. gordon's extraordinary dexterity allows her to feel very small changes in breast tissue. she has almost complete vision loss. that's why she's a medical tactile examiner or m t. u for short as well. i have some beats here and they represent what we compile page lumps the smallest hoff a send to me to the next 2 or what the doctor is able to pay. and that's one sense metering size up woods when he left the last 2 or what a patient can feel to send to meet his upward sites. and that can already be far too late. and jennifer has a hereditary disease that causes complete loss of sight. when she was diagnosed in 2015, her world came crashing down. all of us come out of it. i asked myself, what kind of visually impaired person do? then discovering homes came along, i was just blown away such

a relief and so beautiful a function of the organization, discovering hand strains visually impaired women under medical supervision. they learned to carry out rest examinations with a kind of mapping system. so no areas are missed. i got it and these are from these 5 sticky strips for my orientation. so i can scan them to press row by row, send to me to by send to meet the end 3 depths of posting come. the procedure lasts between 45 and 60 minutes and includes the lymph nodes jennifer bolton's sense as any irregularities. what medical tactile examiners do is not a substitute for mammograms, but it does offer gynecologists a valuable additional tool. dr. andre multimedia from hamburg immediately decided to offer the service and his practice. this gets why they are going to aspect on this project has 2 very good aspects of this. one is the improvement and preventive

care for him into a supplementary examination at regular intervals, sometimes detect something that would otherwise not have been seen until a year later during a mammogram. does this tony? and the 2nd is that it's great. of course, that visually impaired women can do a very meaningful job because as the ends maybe feel more accepted in society, then if they couldn't do it could like jennifer bones who's found a vocation because of her exceptional sense of touch assistant and get to some testing profession that tons of disability into a gift. i can now work until retirement. i think it's great. i have really great patients, a great problems with my patients as well as with the doctors. it's wonderful. there's nothing i dislike about it next to the fender. and the patient's no, with jennifer boons. they're in the best of hands, a down syndrome, medically known as tries to me. 21 is not an illness, but

a genetic condition. sometimes people with down syndrome getting them together and all too often they get treated like children. they will sit in traits commonly associated with the disorder. but people with down syndrome are as unique as everyone else with different intellectual, artistic and practical affinities and interests. they can fall in love, live independently and also do a really good job. julia is working day in a bed and breakfast starts at 7 am the breakfast he meets that with manager, back in the kitchen to be allocated that toss the day. the i fill out the time sheet, then it make breakfast to the rooms and bathrooms. julia

provides to work behind the scenes. she's shy of being with a lot of people make so nervous, a challenge and this job. lucre enjoys customer contact and working in hospitality . he likes trusting with a guest and telling them about the work here. people with disabilities to everything here. the team is now complete and better tells them again, what needs to be done. they have 2 rooms to clean and beds to make julia and gabriella, take care of the 1st room. it's important. nobody puts them under pressure. the, the combined, the, my co worker, julia pedant monte, is very efficient. the evans of the guy eh, no, but i know she doesn't talk much a lot. but i want to say,

i liked this work a lot. i do, so i'm proud to be working. and my work is very important because i bring home a salary and help my family as a i i am looking for me. yeah. that's the distinctive thing about this project. this small hotel, cold to low races is not publicly funded. it's a business that needs to turn a profit. it's employees have to train and go through an application process. then they get to put them in and contract. the teacher of the stuff everyone earn their contract to the all 4 of us really worked for it. a bit more when we made some mistakes to of course expect, and i think this idea should be implemented across emily and also be adopted in other countries or the, voted me out by the driving force behind the project. judy as parents, they formed a cooperative purchase,

this property neither had any prior experience in the hotel business, but they were determined to set up something for julia and others. more than that, we wanted people to understand that these young people can work well. everything here is tailored to them, but the idea would also work in other to assess ability and re co pay to monte also has other plans. next, he wants to open a pastry shop, the officers gluten free products. no. because many people with down syndrome, evolution, intolerance, or quality of people. and the goal is to create a permanent training facility here to train many people with down syndrome and then facilitate the integration of these young people into other jobs. i mean, definitely as opposed to the level julie is working date is of that i'm going dancing now, but i'll be back at work again tomorrow. the

only a small percentage of people that go on with disabilities. 90 percent occur later in life as a result of serious accidents or illnesses like meningitis, osteo, my nitrous o polio. cancer can also be life changing. steven lice, todd last part of his leg 12 years ago. of can spend on one leg just fine. he was just 17 when he was diagnosed with bone cancer. after a year of chemotherapy, the tumor was removed along with his knee joint and got a new replacement. the worst was to come. can you get in cottage of purple bush, the knee joint off and got bent out of shape through various move, montage dvd, im gonna titanium rods. and the bone came loose rather than fusing with it. that

leg became shorter. what occurred with time and my movement was affected, it got harder to walk downstairs and went off. in the end, i only had around 30 percent needs election and i often got stuck in mid movement and fell down the stairs. as a result, i entered my real new cap and the last fall. i have a fillets in all stephen lines that i had to undergo more than 40 operations. during one of them, the wound crew infected and antibiotics didn't help. he made a life changing decision. this had to be strong vocational, it was also upsetting. i realized that then i could live with the decision to have my leg removed. but since i 1st did meant i wouldn't be in pain anymore. secondly, that i'd be rid of the whole thing and the infection to been often and see if i woke up in intensive care. and the 1st thing i did was pull back the covers, have one that i looked down and saw it was finally gone. i was happy i was really

happy in and i had tears in my eyes. stephen struggling through his hospital stay and subsequent physical therapy, and gradually grew accustomed to life with a prosthetic leg. a process that lasted several years. this one uh it took a long time, the operation was 11 or 12 years ago, but i only finally managed to get the right fit for years ago. which div, that's how long it took to get it right before that either the shaft didn't fit, the prosthesis broke, or it had to be readjusted. sometimes i was in the medical supply store 3 or 4 times a week, off of the 42 year old tries to live a completely normal lights. never the less certain routines have become 2nd nature . the 1st thing he does in the morning is go to the bathroom to put on his prosthesis. stephen is passionate about his blog, my leg and me. he's active on youtube and instagram. dish mind internet truck.

obviously, in my blog i reveal my emotional state. ultimately, i want to share with the world what i've been through, what my problems are, is less minor problem is maybe someone has the same problem and can reach out kind of. there are some people who are effective to have problems which i need to go through are about to have an amputation to simply ask interesting, how does it work? and as far as what happens, you know, it's just of thinking, what do you have to take into accounts? are there any problems? where can i get a little help and vision for him? uh and then i try as best i can to answer their questions on done for those things of what he's good to find because i'm so bon talking and he also needs many of those affected in person. the mesh duncan lloyd, 912. and as i just want to help other people find their own way so they can be as happy again with their lives as i and stephen has been married to on. yeah. for 13 years shocked me. confident because she's been with me through the whole story

from the outset to the amputation. she accepted me even without my legs on this. it was no problem for her name is she said, the main thing was that i'm happy and pain free as now. a long struggle that's ended well for stephen. he loves his wife and wants to continue showing that to the world the that's it for today. see you next time on in good shape, by the

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