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100+ Good Afternoon Wishes, Messages & Quotes
Monday or Last updated on August 23, 2022
Good Afternoon Messages: It doesn’t hold us back from wishing our close ones whether it is good noon or any other time of the day. When it is exactly half of a workday and stress or drowsiness knocks down the energy of your precious person, then you may inspire him/her with some good noon quotes or sweet good afternoon messages. Let help your friends, family, colleagues, spouse or lover have the perfect break to take a rest on this shining afternoon and wish them by good afternoon messages which could make them feel refreshed. Send your loved one your heartfelt best wishes to Have a Good Day!
Good Afternoon Messages
Good afternoon! I wish you a lovely afternoon and a beautiful day.
Good afternoon! May your afternoon be light, blessed, enlightened, productive and happy.
Good afternoon sweetheart May our love blossom brightly till our last breath! Love you a lot ❤️
May this afternoon bring a lot of pleasant surprises for you and fills your heart with infinite joy. Wishing you a very warm and love-filled afternoon!
Good afternoon, dear. I hope you experience all the joy and success on this beautiful day.
Wishing the Lord to restore all virtues and guide you every day. Have a good afternoon.
Wishing for your afternoon to be wonderful, cozy, and happy. Have a great one, dear.
Good afternoon to you all! Hoping this afternoon inspires us all to change our views on life and live it to our best potential.
Good afternoon! May the sweet peace be part of your heart today and always and there is life shining through your sigh. May you have much light and peace.
May your life be blessed every day from dusk till dawn. Good afternoon to my dearest friend. Enjoy this beautiful time of the day to the fullest!
Wishing you an afternoon experience so sweet and pleasant that you feel thankful to be alive today. May you have the best afternoon of your life today!
Wishing a very good afternoon to you for this wonderful day. Hoping this day turns out to be a memorable one for you. May God bless you and keep you happy.
This afternoon is beautiful like you. So, I could not miss the opportunity to wish you a good afternoon.
Being in love with you is the sweetest feeling I have ever known. Thank you for making my days colorful. Good afternoon!
Hope you are ready to kick in the afternoon party and forget about the rest of your day.
May your afternoon be blessed by God to its fullest. Enjoy every moment and steal the show.
I wish I were with you this time of the day. We hardly have a beautiful afternoon like this nowadays. Wishing you a peaceful afternoon!
You’re an amazing person and I wish you an afternoon as beautiful as your soul.
I will always be there for you as long as I have a beating heart. You are my one and only. Wishing my love a great afternoon!
This is a lovely afternoon and you are all that is on my mind. I hope you know how much you mean to me, babe.
Hope you have a blissful afternoon after having such a shitty day. May God save you, dear.
Do not take the afternoon for granted just like your boss took you! Joking, hold on. Best of luck.
You are the cure that I need to take three times a day, in the morning, at night and in the afternoon. I am missing you. Good afternoon!
With a deep blue sky over my head and a relaxing wind around me, the only thing I am missing right now is your company. I wish you a refreshing afternoon!
Good afternoon, my love. You are the sun, moon, and every star in my sky.
The day has come to a halt realizing that I am yet to wish you a great afternoon. My dear, if you thought you were forgotten, you’re so wrong. Good afternoon!
You’re one of my dearest friends of mine and I hope all your days go well. Good afternoon, buddy.
With you, every part of a day is beautiful. I live every day to love you more than yesterday. Wishing you an enjoyable afternoon my love!
Good afternoon! Time to appreciate all the blessings of the day and find the motivation to keep going.
Good Afternoon Wishes
May this beautiful afternoon fill your heart with boundless happiness and gives you new hopes to start yours with. May you have a lot of fun! Good afternoon dear!
Life may not be a bed of roses, but there sure are plenty of other flowers to find. This afternoon, I hope you keep finding them.
My wishes will always be with you, Morning wish to make you feel fresh, Afternoon wish to accompany you, Evening wish to refresh you, Night wish to comfort you with sleep, Good afternoon dear!
As the blazing sun slowly starts making its way to the west, I want you to know that this beautiful afternoon is here to bless your life with success and peace. Good afternoon!
The deep blue sky of this bright afternoon reminds me of the deepness of your heart and the brightness of your soul. May you have a memorable afternoon!
Your presence could make this afternoon much more pleasurable for me. Your company is what I cherish all the time. Good afternoon!
A relaxing afternoon wind and the sweet pleasure of your company can make my day complete. Missing you so badly during this time of the day! Good afternoon!
As you prepare to wave goodbye to another wonderful day, I want you to know that I am always thinking of you. Good afternoon!
This afternoon is here to calm your dog-tired mind after a hectic day. Enjoy the blessings it offers you and be thankful always. Good afternoon!
The gentle afternoon wind feels like a sweet hug from you. You are in my every thought on this wonderful afternoon. Hope you are enjoying the time!
Wishing an amazingly good afternoon to the most beautiful soul I have ever met. I hope you are having a good time relaxing and enjoying the beauty of this time!
This bright afternoon sun always reminds me of how you brighten my life with all the happiness. I miss you a lot this afternoon. Have a good time!
What a wonderful afternoon to finish your day with! I hope you’re having a great time sitting on your balcony, enjoying this afternoon beauty!
Time to remember sweet persons in your life. I know I will be first on the list. Thanks for that, Good afternoon my dear!
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Good Afternoon Messages for Him
Good afternoon, love ❤️ You make each day of mine worthwhile! I hope you always make me feel special. Love you so much!
Hope you are having a great day, love. I hope this afternoon wish will accompany you and make you feel the warmth of my devotion. Love you.
Just wanted to remind you that every day you steal my heart and soul just like afternoon steals the day. The thought of you being mine makes every second of the day magical. Good afternoon, baby.
Your love keeps me going through the day and your smile adds colors to my black and white life. Good afternoon, darling.
I’ve said ‘’I love you’’ to you a million times and I’ll say it a million more times. Good afternoon, babe; I love you so much.
I wish a very good afternoon to my angel. Thank you for being the most amazing man on earth.
The way you brighten up my life is beyond description and I cannot but be grateful to you! Good afternoon, my man.
Thank you for living in my heart rent-free. Wishing you a great afternoon, dear. Love you so much.
Cheers to all our precious memories and moments of love. Have a great afternoon, my darling.
My love, I hope you are doing well at work and that you remember that I will be waiting for you at home with my arms open to pamper you and give you all my love. I wish you a good afternoon!
Every afternoon is to remember the one whom my heart beats for. Hope you are doing good there my love. Missing your face.
Your love is sweeter than what I read in romantic novels and fulfilling more than I see in epic films. I couldn’t have been me, without you. Good afternoon honey, I love you!
With you every day is my lucky day. So lucky being your love and I don’t know what else to say. Good Afternoon my love!
You are every bit of special to me just like a relaxing afternoon is special after toiling at noon. Thinking of my special one in this special time of the day!
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Good Afternoon Messages for Her
Hope you are thinking about me on this beautiful afternoon just like I am thinking about you.
Darling, my love for you knows no bound. Please take care of yourself. Have an amazing afternoon ahead.
No matter what time of the day it is, No matter what I am doing, No matter what is right and what is wrong, I still remember you like this time, Good Afternoon!
Good afternoon, honey bunny! You make each day beautiful and lovely with your smile and care. Waiting to return home and be with you! 😊
On this cozy and beautiful afternoon wanted to say that I believe in you and am forever grateful to God for sending you into my life.
May you enjoy every moment this precious afternoon has stored for you. Love you tons, sweetheart ❤️
Hope the fresh breeze touches you and enlightens you about your worth. Best of luck for the rest of the day. Have a great afternoon.
I’ve been missing you since I opened my eyes this morning and that’s what I’ll be doing till I close them at night. Good afternoon, love.
Afternoons are the most beautiful time of the day and at this time, I’m remembering the most beautiful woman on earth. Love you, my sunshine.
I hope you take good care of the sweetest person on earth, which is you. Good afternoon, my love.
Your presence is the most heavenly thing on earth and I love you more than anything. Good afternoon, honey.
You are sometimes my greatest weakness, you are sometimes my biggest strength. I do not have a lot of words to say but let you make sure, you make my day, Good Afternoon!
I have tasted things that are so sweet, and heard words that are soothing to the soul, but comparing the joy that they both bring, I’ll rather choose to see a smile on your cheeks. You are sweet. I love you.
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Good Afternoon Wishes For Friends
Good afternoon, my friend! Here’s hoping you have a wonderful and joyful day! Enjoy and be happy!
God has blessed me with a friend like you, and I am grateful. Have a happy afternoon.
We have been through thick and thin, and it makes me even more emotional. Thank you for being my friend. Wishing you a great afternoon.
Good afternoon. Remember to take care of your body, mind, and spirit; because you’re one of a kind.
So many of my afternoons turned memorable because of you! I look forward to many more of it and for now, enjoy this afternoon.
Friends like you make our lives worth living. That is why I want to wish you a good afternoon, a good day, and good life.
Seeing your smiling face makes me feel at ease. Always keep that smile on, friend. Have an amazing afternoon.
On this wonderful afternoon, I just wanted to thank you for believing in me and making me believe in myself. Thanks for being my lucky charm, friend.
When friendship is your greatest weakness you will be the strongest person in the world! “Good Afternoon”
I was enjoying this beautiful afternoon so much when I thought of you and said to myself, that idiot friend of mine must be sleeping. What a misfortune of you to miss such a beautiful afternoon!
I don’t always say good afternoon to anyone, but when I say, I say it to mean that I’m ready for the afternoon party!
SUCCESS is century make it, PROBLEM is yorker face it, FAILURE is bouncer leave it, LUCK is full toss use it, but an OPPORTUNITY is a free hit never miss it, Good Afternoon my friends.
I hope you had a wonderful morning with my morning wishes, Here I am sending my afternoon wish to you to have awesome noon, Happy noon my dear friend!
There are good and bad moments, but when a friend is next to you everything is different, joy becomes more immense and sadness is easier to cope with, so I wish you a very happy afternoon dear friend.
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Good Afternoon My Love Messages
I want you when I wake up in the morning, I want you when I go to sleep at night and I want you when I relax under the sun in the afternoon! Good afternoon love!
Afternoons like this make me think about you more. I desire so deeply to be with you on one of these afternoons just to tell you how much I love you. Good afternoon my love ❤️
My heart craves for your company all the time. A beautiful afternoon like this can be made more enjoyable if you just decide to spend it with me. Good afternoon!
Your love is like the blood cells that run inside my veins. Your presence in life is more than a necessity for me. I love you! Good afternoon my love!
Thinking of you is my most favorite hobby every afternoon. Your love is all I desire in life. Wishing my beloved an amazing afternoon!
I hope things have been very good in the morning, but if they were not, so do not worry, you still have a few hours in the afternoon to finish the day in the best way. I miss you very much and I send you all my good vibes.
I pray to god that he keeps me close to you so we can enjoy these beautiful afternoons together forever! Wishing you a good time this afternoon!
Every moment of my life is enjoyable if it is spent with you. Let’s make this afternoon a memorable one together. Good afternoon, my love!
The best thing about this afternoon is that I have you with me to share it together. I look forward to making it a memorable one. Good afternoon!
Every afternoon spent with you gives me new reasons to fall in love with you again and again. You mean the whole world to me. Good afternoon!
Good afternoon, love! My love feels the strongest during this time of the day as I miss you and wish to be with you as soon as possible.
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Inspirational Good Afternoon Messages
Your dream doesn’t have an expiration date. Take a deep breath, and try again. Good Afternoon Dear.
Let go of all your sadness and light up your world with the brightness of this afternoon. You have miles to go still. I wish you an afternoon that’s full of inspiration!
Good times always show up after the hardest time in your life. Just like a relaxing afternoon takes place after hectic noon. Wish you all the best for the coming days.
The biggest motivation is your own thoughts, so think big and motivate yourself to win. Good Afternoon!
The afternoon is a perfect time to recharge your drained-up self after a toiling day. This afternoon is all for you to take a deep breath and start the journey once again.
You are a blessed soul if you are still alive to experience this amazing afternoon today. Take your inspiration from this bright sun and make your life wonderful.
There’s beauty in every step of life; you just have to find it. So work on finding the beauty of life and have a blessed afternoon.
I believe that you have the potential to turn every day into your day. Wish you an afternoon full of high spirits.
The morning is gone and the night is still hours away. So don’t stress about any of it and enjoy this beautiful afternoon.
This afternoon is a reward for you after a restless day. Expose yourself to this refreshing afternoon wind and let it fill you with hope, dream and determination. Good afternoon!
You could get a simple idea one afternoon that could completely change your life. Great innovators just needed one idea to change everything. Keep striving and you will reach success.
Learning history is so easy but making history is so difficult. Make a history of yourself and make others to learn it! Good Afternoon!
I hope you have a nice afternoon and that you keep up your optimism because the mind is powerful enough to do great things.
Be bright like the afternoon sun and let everyone who sees you feel inspired by all the great things you do. You have one life here on earth. Make it count in whatever way you can. Good Afternoon!
Good Afternoon Quotes
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. Good Afternoon.” – St. Jerome
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” – Jonathan Grimwood
“As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall. Good Afternoon and Good Day!” – Swati Khare
“Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don’t do them anymore. – Rachel Caine”
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” – Henry James
“Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.” – Annie Dillard
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”- Lin Yutang
“The afternoon is not only the middle of the day it is the time to complete our essential task and go ahead in life.” – Shashikant Shinde
“Leave me a smile just warm enough to spend a million golden afternoons in.” – Sanober Khan
“Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.” – A.D. Posey
“It is the end of a fine bronze-tinted afternoon with purple shadows and febrile scraps of the cloud.” – Daniel Arsand
“Be bright like the afternoon sun and let everyone who sees you feel inspired by all the great things you do. You have one life here on earth. Make it count in whatever way you can.” – Delna Rose
“Good afternoon guys, just remember that no matter where you are right now focused and a positive mindset can lead you to where you want to be in life.” – Allan Thicke
“Have you stuck again on an afternoon with nothing to do? Start with your dreams, decide where you want to be and create a plan to reach there. Every little step will lead you closer to your destiny.” – John Ross
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Good Afternoon Blessings and Prayers
Have a blessed afternoon, dear. I hope you are enjoying a great day with your loved ones.
Remember that nothing happens without God’s wish. Have a blessed afternoon.
Good Afternoon. May the Lord bless you with a heart full of peace and a life full of prosperity.
Good afternoon, my dear! Hoping you are having a delightful day so far! May God bless you and keep you safe always!
We’ve got another sweet afternoon. May God bless us two with many more beautiful afternoons like this. I want to spend every afternoon of my life with you.
May this afternoon bring loads of love and happiness for you, sweetheart! I will do anything to make you smile, no matter what! Love you a lot!
Nature gives us true peace, and the afternoon is the perfect time to enjoy that nature. May God grant you another good afternoon!
The afternoon is my favorite, just like you. Have a good afternoon dear. My only prayer to God is that you stay by my side as long as we live!
The afternoon is a cheerful part of the day, which energizes our mind and body. Have a bewitching afternoon. I pray to God for your healthy life and success.
There is nothing more blissful than receiving good afternoon wishes from our loved ones, especially after a long and tiring day. We all crave for that feeling of being remembered and missed by someone. Good afternoon wishes and messages are for letting your friends, family members and loved ones know that you’re thinking of them during a beautiful afternoon. Share the joys of an afternoon with your dearest ones with good afternoon wishes and messages like these ones. Make their days full of rejoicing and fun. Let them know how special they are 7 how much you adore them through these unique good afternoon wishes and messages.
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A committed campaigner for the deaf community has been named in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
Paul Kirby, 50, of Blandford Forum, Dorset, has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to health and social care.
Mr Kirby, who is deaf himself, spent 25 years as a teacher for British Sign Language (BSL).
Elsewhere in Dorset, Paralympian Lucy Shuker has also been awarded a BEM for services to sport.
The 43-year-old, who grew up in Three Legged Cross, is one of Britain’s most successful wheelchair tennis players, winning three Paralympic medals for Great Britain.
Mr Kirby has worked as a care manager at a charity for deaf adults and children.
He has also been the chair of the Disability Equality Network at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for the past four years.
Mr Kirby says he is trying to bridge the gap between the deaf community and the CQC – where he currently works as an adviser.
“I’ve only just started and I will keep going to ensure that BSL users have access to services,” he said.
When he opened the letter informing him of his honour, Mr Kirby said he felt an immense “sense of pride”.
“It felt that I can show the community that BSL has a purpose here. Although my voice is not enough, as long as I can share my knowledge and experience with others for them to take it and pass it on.
“I’ve seen the history of deaf people struggling. I am trying to open the door for them to feel accepted in the community.”
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British Sign Language GCSE
Students will soon be able to study British Sign Language (BSL) as a GCSE following a consultation into the course content.
Good communication is essential both inside and outside the workplace and this new GCSE will give students a vital life skill valued by employers.
The introduction of the new GCSE is in part thanks to 17-year-old, Daniel Jillings, who has campaigned for the qualification since the age of 12.
As well as being the focus of an Award-winning documentary film, Daniel recently addressed more than 20 MPs in his first language, BSL.
Here’s what you need to know about this new and historic qualification.
What will be on the BSL curriculum?
As part of the GCSE, students will be taught around 1,000 signs and how to use them to communicate effectively with other signers for use in work, social and academic settings.
The GCSE assumes no prior knowledge of BSL but will be accessible for students who use it as their first language.
We have also been working closely with subject experts, stakeholders, exam boards and schools to develop proposed content to ensure that this new GCSE is internationally recognised and accepted in school and college performance tables.
However, we are now seeking views on the new qualification, including the language skills to be studied and the role of history, from teachers, employers and the deaf and hearing communities before deciding on the exact curriculum.
You can find the consultation on the BSL GCSE here.
When will the GCSE be available?
We intend for the BSL GCSE to be available to teach in schools from September 2025.
The BSL GCSE has been in development since 2019 but was delayed due to the pandemic.
Qualifications do take time to develop from scratch. Once the subject content has been finalised post-consultation, any exam boards that choose to offer the GCSE need time to develop a full specification.
Specifications must be reviewed and accredited by Ofqual before schools and colleges are able to teach them.
Schools also require time to prepare for the introduction of new qualifications, including planning any timetable changes and ensuring teachers have the support they need to teach them. This is why it is our intention for the new BSL GCSE to be taught in schools from September 2025.
What are the benefits of studying BSL at GCSE?
British Sign Language was recognised in law as a language of Great Britain in the BSL Act (2022), and the new GCSE will be key to helping inclusivity within education.
The study of BSL will help students to develop ways of expressing and negotiating meaning through visual spatial language, communication and visual memory skills that will be an advantage to them for the rest of their lives.
As well as learning how to sign effectively, the GCSE will also give students an understanding of the history of sign language in the UK. This will provide a solid foundation for students’ understanding of how the language has reached its current form.
Who can take the BSL GCSE?
Any student, of any age, can take the GCSE, either through their school or college, or entering as a private candidate.
Will it be part of the national curriculum?
Studying BSL is not part of the National Curriculum, however, schools are able to teach BSL to their students if they wish.
While it is optional, we are confident that its introduction will encourage more schools to teach the subject more widely.
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A state-of-the-art wheelchair buggy, designed to affix to wheelchairs and help parents safely transport their children, has won Bolt Burdon Kemp’s Design the Change competition.
The competition, in its third year, is intended to raise awareness of the day-to-day challenges facing people with spinal cord injuries and how innovative designs can make a real difference.
The competition invites UK-based university students to design a product aimed at improving the lives of people with a spinal cord injury. Law firm Bolt Burdon Kemp, which supports people with spinal cord injuries, was looking for a design which was both unique and practical.
Winner Tom Baker, 23, a third year Product Design student from Sheffield Hallam University, designed the wheelchair buggy which comprises of a lightweight collapsible frame, offering wheelchair users independent and secure travel with young children utilising existing wheelchair and infant seat fixings, for universal use with non-adapted products. Through Tom’s research he realised that many wheelchair users rig up DIY contraptions so they can push conventional pushchairs. His research revealed there are around 4,000 UK parents living with a spinal cord injury, and many more parents who are wheelchair users who could benefit from this product.
Tom wins £3,000, with an additional £2,000 being awarded to Sheffield Hallam University. Design the Change is supported by Bolt Burdon Kemp’s charity partner Cerebra which works to improve the lives of children with neurological conditions. Part of the charity’s work is to design bespoke equipment to meet families’ needs at their innovation centre and as part of his prize, Tom will have a week’s placement at the centre in Wales next year.
Victoria Oliver, head of the spinal injury team at Bolt Burdon Kemp, said: “The standard of entries this year was so high but Tom’s wheelchair buggy really blew the judges away. Through careful research and speaking to a wide range of people, Tom was able to identify the issues facing parents with a SCI and come up with a genuinely innovative and useful product which could benefit many.
“According to research carried out by the Spinal Injuries Association it is estimated that there are more than 50,000 people living with a spinal cord injury in the UK. Every four hours, through accident or illness, someone is paralysed by a spinal cord injury. Adults, children, men, women; everyone is potentially at risk.
“A spinal cord injury is a life changing event that makes even the most mundane of tasks time-consuming and a challenge. Yet despite the increasing number of people living with a spinal cord injury in the UK, not enough is being done to make the world in which we all live accessible.”
Winner Tom Baker said: “I’m delighted that my project to enable individuals with a spinal cord injury to travel with an infant safely and independently, has been recognised with this award.
“During my research for this project, I learnt that the work which Cerebra and The Spinal Injuries Association do is crucial in making the world a more accessible place for those who have suffered a spinal cord injury. I’d like to thank Bolt Burdon Kemp for setting the design challenge and endorsing.
“The support I received from the Product Design Department at Sheffield Hallam University was exceptional and I’m pleased that they will share the prize with me.
“I am thrilled that my project has been chosen as the winning design and thank all those involved in supporting me and this inspiring initiative.”
Andrew Marsh from Sheffield Hallam, added: “Tom engaged with a wide range of experts and potential product users to gain valuable insights into the realities of being a parent with an SCI. His buggy proposal is both highly innovative and commercially viable. By utilising existing baby seats, he has managed to develop an affordable and user-friendly way for wheelchair users to travel with their children, where it may have otherwise been prohibitively difficult or unsafe.
“BBK’s Design the Change competition really encourages design students to look more closely at accessibility and adaptive design, which they will take into their future careers, contributing to a more inclusive society.”
Thomas’s design was judged by a panel of experts: Dr Ross Head, Product Design Manager for the Cerebra Innovation Centre, Ian Hosking, club chairman, vice coach and player for Stoke Mandeville Wheelchair rugby club, Davey Jose, Ambassador to the charity Stoke Mandeville Spinal Research, Lady-Marie Dawson-Malcolm, Support Network Officer for the Spinal Injuries Association and Claire Martin, Trustee for the Spinal Injuries Association.
Commenting on the winning design, Dr Ross Head, Product Design Manager for the Cerebra Innovation Centre, said: “I loved Tom’s design work, creativity and working prototypes. I think it represented a very well-rounded design student; from great user-guided research through to real-world testing, Tom’s project covered all bases, was well presented and detailed. It was, as usual, a very tough job to decide a winner amongst so many great project ideas and so much hard work that was presented. I wish the very best to all of the contestants and thank them very much for their submissions and for stimulating such an enjoyable debate to find a winner! It was a super fun day, and thank you to Victoria and the team for so generously hosting us and making us feel so welcome in London. I look forward to next year already!”
Lady-Marie Dawson-Malcolm added: “Design the Change initiative is a great way for budding engineers to think outside the box. The 2023 submissions were of a very high standard and choosing the winning design was tough! The winning design will reach across all sections of the disability community and not just SCI! I was delighted to be asked to be one of the judges on this year’s competition”.
Ian Hosking said: “I liked Tom’s thought process. It appeared he had tried to put himself in the position of a chair user. He made a prototype and went to a mobility showroom, to look at high end chairs (the fact he even knew that not all wheelchairs are the same was a big ’tick’). I was impressed with how he considered the pricing of his invention and how it would be handled by each user (i.e. from being attached to a wheelchair, to being in the car’. All of this together made it a fairly easy choice that his design was the best.
“I enjoy judging this competition, to see what the country’s next generation of designers can do, to aid the life of the SCI community.”
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Almost half a million callers to the PIP helpline in the month of April were deliberately disconnected by the DWP before they could even wait in a queue, a freedom of information request by Benefits and Work has revealed. The proportion of calls cut-off before entering the queue is now greater than the proportion who even get to wait for an hour or more before giving up or getting disconnected.
In May, we asked the DWP to tell us the number of calls made to the PIP Enquiry Line on 0800 121 4433 and the number of these which were blocked, for the last three months for which the statistics are available.
The DWP provided us with the following statistics:
February
Calls put in queue 415,552
Calls blocked 34,860
March
Calls put in queue 488,965
Calls blocked 306,865
April
Calls put in queue 388,265
Calls blocked 494,044
The DWP went on to argue that:
“Personal Independence Payment has experienced unprecedented levels of new claims from customers in recent months and as a result we have seen increased call traffic.
“The blocked call figures relate to the enquiry line only and does not impact customers being able to make new claims or raise a dispute.
“We are currently in the process of recruitment [sic] additional resource into telephony so that we can increase the number of calls answered and prevent blocked calls. Although blocked calls relate
to customers unable to join the queue this figure is significantly increased by customers dialling the number multiple times.”
However, whilst claims are at record levels as the DWP says, the number of new claims in the quarter to April 2023 is only up by 20% on the number of new claims in the quarter to April 2022.
This stops well short of being “unprecedented”.
Moreover, whatever the explanation for the increase in calls, it seems that the DWP put 100,000 fewer callers in the queue in April than they did in March. This suggests that the department is dealing with fewer callers as volumes increase, not more.
The worry is that the DWP is now in a downward spiral of increasingly awful customer service.
Forms are not being sent out, letters are not being acknowledged, changes of address or bank details are not being recorded and claimants are being left many months with the horrible uncertainty of not knowing the result of their award review. All this results in a continual increase in the number of desperate callers to the PIP helpline. And amongst them all are the claimants whose health conditions have changed, but who cannot pass on that information or receive the increased award they may be entitled to.
And what these statistics don’t tell us, but we will now attempt to discover, is how many of the callers in the queue ever get answered.
Readers only need to look at some of the many hundreds of comments on our PIP Enquiry Line page to realise the intense distress that this utter failure of service by the DWP is causing to people who simply want to ensure that they meet their responsibilities as claimants.
Plymouth Student’s Plea For More Access At University
A student at the University of Plymouth is calling for more accessibility on campus.
Jude Costello, a wheelchair user, said he was denied access to the campus while the university’s summer ball was being set up earlier this month.
Mr Costello, 20, said it made him feel “alienated” and “not accepted” as a student.
A spokesperson for the University of Plymouth apologised and said an investigation had begun into the issue.
The marine biology student said he also attended a boat party as part of his course, but a ramp was not available for him to access the boat.
He said: “Even aside from the fact it makes getting an education here more difficult, being unable to access classrooms and lectures and things like that, it just makes me feel very alienated.”
‘Exhausting’
Mr Costello, who has chronic pain, fibromyalgia and hypermobility, said he hoped the university could improve accessibility for its students.
He said: “I have to put in so much more work than my able-bodied peers in order to do the things that they do. I don’t get recognised for it, I don’t get that much support for it. It’s exhausting.
“It makes me feel like I’m not accepted as a student here, that I’m a burden to my friends and peers.”
The university spokesperson said: “Everyone at the university wants students to have a great experience here, and we’re keen to work with Jude to further understand how we can best meet his needs and resolve these issues.”
Amelia McLoughlin, the network director for Disabled Students UK, said anecdotally this was an issue across the country.
She said: “It’s sad we continue to hear these same stories across the sector. We would say to be fair on individual institutions as well it’s quite widespread from the information we have.”
She added: “It needs leadership, funding and an acknowledgement that this is happening in the sector.”
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BBC Drama Asks: When Do You Let A Sick Child Die?
How do you decide when to stop treating a sick child, knowing that it will end the child’s life?
For Bafta-winning writer Jack Thorne, that’s the central question in his latest TV show.
In the four-part BBC One series, Best Interests, parents Nicci and Andrew (played by Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen) confront doctors who say it’s in the best interests of their disabled child Marnie (played by Niamh Moriarty) to turn off her ventilator, allowing her to die.
“I wanted to tell this drama with complexity,” Thorne says, explaining he tried to show the views from all sides of the debate – disabled people to parents and doctors – without “moralising”.
“I hope I managed to steer a path through it,” he adds.
Thorne, known for writing the stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the TV movie Help and the TV series His Dark Materials, says becoming a father three years ago brought the central question in the series home “hugely”.
“I don’t think I could have written this without being a parent,” he says, describing the “fierce love” that comes with being a father.
But he says he has also come to understand the potential divisions that can arise between parents.
In the series, Marnie’s parents are split on whether to agree with doctors to stop her treatment, setting up a legal battle that sees them take opposing sides.
“Being a parent with someone is a very, very, severe sort of intimacy,” Thorne says. “You’re constantly negotiating.
“That question of who has the child’s best interests, and how you can decide what the child’s best interests are, hopefully that permeates the whole show.”
In England and Wales the concept of parental responsibility is set out in the Children Act 1989, giving parents the responsibility broadly to decide what happens to their child, including the right to consent to medical treatment. But this right is not absolute.
If a public body considers that a parents’ choices are not in the best interests of their child, and an agreement cannot be reached, it can challenge these choices by going to court.
A representative is appointed for the child – separate from their parents and doctors – and a judge makes the final decision, based on the evidence available.
The Department of Health and Social Care has commissioned an independent review of the disagreements that can arise between families and healthcare teams in the care of critically ill children in England. It is due to be completed by October 2023.
Best Interests also touches on the health inequalities in society experienced by disabled people – and what Thorne refers to as the “scars” caused by the pandemic.
He says friends of his were told they wouldn’t get care during the pandemic because they were too ill.
“It’s when we’re in crisis that we show our true selves, and I think our society showed itself to be dangerously ableist.”
Ableism is defined as discrimination that favours non-disabled people above disabled people.
Thorne adds: “I hope it’s clear from the drama that I feel like the treatment of disabled people, particularly through the pandemic, was wrong and inhumane at times.
“But I also don’t want to castigate NHS doctors and nurses who are all working hard or who have their beliefs.”
In Best Interests, Thorne says he was also keen to include scenes of laughter, love and even sex.
“That, in my opinion, is how these things work,” he says. “When you’re going through a tragic experience, it can be funny, it can be silly, it can be all these different things.
“Humanity pokes up in all sorts of weird places.”
Writing is soothing
Speaking at the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival in 2021, Thorne talked about having cholinergic urticaria, a condition that caused him to be allergic to artificial heat and movement, leaving him with welts and in pain.
When he was 20, he spent six months in bed and he says his life was very restricted for 10 years.
In the speech, he was also harshly critical of the TV industry, saying it had “utterly and totally” failed disabled people.
But Thorne says things have “moved on markedly” since he gave the speech.
“I’m very excited that disabled people are starting to move into leadership positions.”
Thorne is also getting used to life after a recent autism diagnosis, something that came about after an appearance on radio programme Desert Island Discs, when a listener wrote to his agent suggesting he might be autistic.
The diagnosis made a lot of sense, he says. “I think it’s been a positive.”
Looking back, Thorne says being autistic helped with his writing career – and he says writing is still the one thing that he finds calming above all else.
“That has been my saving grace really through my life, the ability to be able to write and find comfort in creating situations where I can understand [things] better.
“I just find writing very soothing.”
Watch Best Interests on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 21:00 BST, Monday 12 June
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Love Island is back for its 10th series.
And while it might have been on screens since 2015, this summer there’s a change for blind and visually impaired fans of the show.
For the first time contestants have provided audio description, describing how they look, their skin tone and outfits.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People praised ITV, calling the move “a remarkable example for the industry”.
“I’m a tall, mixed race woman, I’m 28 years old, half-Swedish, half-Somali,” host Maya Jama says in her audio description.
“I have long brown hair and brown eyes,” she adds, saying that she likes to wear colourful clothes and that she’s smiley and enthusiastic.
Ron Hall, who’s blind in one eye, was the show’s first visually impaired contestant during this year’s winter version.
The 25-year-old thinks ITV are making a positive “first step” when it comes to accessibility.
“It’s quite a nice start that the place that gave me a platform is now following on from me being visually impaired and helping others as well,” he tells BBC Newsbeat.
“Although I’d say it’s quite a big group, people do forget about the blind and visually impaired, because people just live day to day and watch it normally.
“So it’s nice that they’re taking the first step.”
‘You want to know the drama’
Connor Scott-Gardner, who is blind, agrees and thinks it’s good ITV are starting to think of fans like himself.
“I really look forward to the whole season to be honest,” the 29-year-old says.
“In terms of audio description, I think it’s a great step that ITV are taking and providing an element of audio description for blind fans.
“I have checked out the personal audio descriptions and I think it’s interesting – it’s definitely not something I expected.”
But Abi James-Miller, who’s a big Love Island fan, thinks ITV could go further to enhance the experience for blind and visually impaired viewers.
The 24-year-old is visually impaired and often messages other fans on Twitter to find out what’s happening on screen.
While the contestants and host have described themselves, and ITV say a villa tour is set to be uploaded, there’s no audio description available for each episode.
Other reality shows, like Too Hot To Handle and Naked Attraction, offer audio descriptions.
“I feel the descriptions they’ve done don’t go far enough to actually enhance the experience as a watcher,” Abi says.
“I can find out who they are, if they’ve got a tattoo, but you want to know the drama, that’s why I’m watching it.
“I think we need more integrated audio descriptions in Iain Stirling’s presenting and his script.”
ITV says the nature of Love Island “means that there is very little space within the programme to add traditional audio description and no time ahead of transmission to write and record it”.
“This is why we were so keen to create this additional content,” it says.
Abi also says the show should include the audio descriptions on the channel’s streaming service ITVX, instead of YouTube, so they’re easier and less time-consuming for people to access.
ITV told Newsbeat it’s looking to move additional audio descriptions on to ITVX in the future.
Like Abi, Connor thinks there needs to be more audio descriptions of live and pre-recorded shows – Love Island is usually pre-recorded but the final is live – across the industry.
“I don’t think it’s perfect, but I think any push towards accessibility has to be a good thing,” he says.
“And we need to view it as a positive as well as holding various media companies accountable and saying they also need to do more in future.”
A spokesperson for Love Island says ITV is “committed to improving the accessibility of our shows on a continuous basis and we’re always working on new ideas”.
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A new airplane seat concept that allows wheelchair users to stay in their own chair throughout a flight was revealed this week by a subsidiary of US airline Delta, a move welcomed as a “huge step” by potential customers.
“Unbelievably excited,” is how power wheelchair user and avid traveler Cory Lee described his reaction after a working prototype of the design was demonstrated by Delta Flight Products (DFP) at the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany, a symposium spotlighting airplane cabin innovations.
DFP’s concept seamlessly converts to and from a traditional airplane seat. The built-in seat folds up to allow a wheelchair to be docked into place. The seat would be installed into pre-existing aircraft seat track systems, so would not involve any structural change to the airplane.
When the seat’s in wheelchair mode, flyers are still able to use the tray table – the center console that houses the tray table rises to the appropriate height when the seat conversion takes place.
Rick Salanitri, DFP president, told CNN Travel at AIX that the goal is to make the conversion seamless.
Though still only a prototype, the design is already generating significant buzz among wheelchair users who could be among potential customers. It’s hoped that the concept could enter commercial use within 18 months if it passes testing and is adopted by airlines.
“For decades, people with disabilities have been fighting for more accessible air travel, and this feels like a huge step (or a giant roll) toward real inclusivity,” Lee told CNN Travel via email.
Lee’s visited 43 countries and counting, documenting his adventures on his blog. He loves exploring the world, but said at present air travel is “tremendously difficult” for him.
As airlines can’t typically accommodate powered chairs, Lee usually has to use a non-electric, airport-owned one, which he can’t control himself. This, he said, leads to a “scary” loss of independence.
This discomfort continues when he boards a plane and must be lifted by staff into an aisle wheelchair, and then again onto an airplane seat.
“During those transfers, I’ve nearly been dropped on several occasions,” said Lee.
Once on board, Lee spends the whole journey concerned that his personal wheelchair may be damaged during flight (“It has been damaged so badly that I couldn’t even drive it out of the airport on two different occasions,” he explained.)
Lee’s experiences are not unique. Air travel is infamously inaccessible, with disability activists vocal about the dehumanizing and dangerous air experience for wheelchair users.
New design
To produce this new seat design, DFP partnered with UK-based consortium Air4All. Air4All comprises aviation design company PriestmanGoode, advocacy group Flying Disabled, aerospace company SWS Certification and wheelchair design company Sunrise Medical.
Flying Disabled’s Christopher Wood kickstarted the consortium a few years ago. His two adult children are wheelchair users who love to travel, and Wood’s seen firsthand the issues they encounter on airplanes.
“I did research to try and create a solution,” Wood tells CNN Travel at AIX. First, he looked into working with nonprofits. Eventually he concluded he needed to go directly to an aviation company. He approached Priestman Goode and Air4All was formed.
“I found like minded people,” said Wood.
Somewhere along the line, DFP – described by Salanitri as “a product development company inside of the airline” – and Priestman Goode started talking about the concept.
“We thought the idea had some merit,” said Salanitri. DFP bookmarked the idea, and then revisited it when they were approached by Delta Air Lines customer service team to see if they could develop “some sort of carrier that they could put customer wheelchairs in.”
That was an “aha” moment, said Salanitri.
‘Well, we came across this other idea here,’” he recalled saying.
That was around 18 months ago, and the product’s been in development ever since.
DFP said it brought in a disability focus group to weigh in every step of the way. One of the key pieces of feedback, said product innovation manager Tyler Anderson-Lennert, was the height of the center console, which now elevates when the seat is in wheelchair mode.
“This has been done with some serious backing from the community to give their feedback,” added Flying Disabled’s Wood, who said it was important that this wasn’t an airline “lecturing to the community,” but rather a collaborative, instructive process.
Real world implication
At AIX, the DFP team has spent the past few days demonstrating their seat to aviation industry insiders. Wood said the reaction has been “genuine enthusiasm.”
What’s perhaps most striking at first look is that the seat maintains the same aesthetic whether it’s in its traditional airplane seat mode, or in its wheelchair conversion. The team wanted to make it “stylish” and they’ve succeeded.
The conversion process, as demonstrated to CNN Travel by DFP engineers, is also incredibly swift and smooth, taking around 90 seconds.
The team is now working on the next steps to make the concept a reality.
“We’re going through the testing and development and certification for the chair that is going to make that chair viable to go on an aircraft – we’re projecting within 18 months,” said Anderson-Lennert.
Salanitiri said DFP has also started informal discussions with the US Federal Aviation Administration, as well as the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
Although DFP is a subsidiary of Delta, Salanitiri said he cannot confirm whether or not Delta will be the first airline to implement the seat design.
The ultimate goal, added Wood, is getting the seat on every airline.
The team hopes implementing the concept would be straightforward for airlines to install, though they currently don’t know what costs could look like.
“Here’s the perfect world,” said Salanitri. “I pick up the front row of all domestic airplane seats and I drop these in, no other changes, I’d have to integrate a little bit of IFE [in-flight entertainment] into it, there’ll be some regulatory certification that goes into it, but it’s a very low time, low cost modification in the perfect world.”
In terms of ticket fare, Salanitri said the wheelchair version of the seat will likely be within “the price point of a standard domestic first class seat.”
Key step
Flying Disabled’s Wood said he’s thrilled his team’s found a potential way to improve what he calls the biggest barrier to accessible air travel, but he acknowledges that there are other unresolved issues and more to be done.
Wheelchair traveler Lee agrees, pinpointing aircraft restrooms as the next problem that should be addressed.
“Currently, they are so small that it’s impossible for a caregiver and I to go in for me to use the restroom,” he said. “Currently, I have to severely limit my food and liquid intake in the days leading up to a flight, so that I won’t need to use a restroom onboard the plane.”
“Until air travel is inclusive for everyone, including wheelchair users, it isn’t inclusive at all.”
Cory Lee, travel blogger and power wheelchair user
Still, Lee said he’s thrilled that “an airline has finally acknowledged that there needs to be a wheelchair spot on planes, and is trying to make it happen.” He adds that he’s “immensely looking forward” to a time when he can stay in his own wheelchair on a flight.”
“On a daily basis, I receive messages from other wheelchair users saying that they want to travel, but they’re terrified that their wheelchair will get damaged, so they choose to just do road trips,” Lee said. “In 2023, they shouldn’t be saying that. Until air travel is inclusive for everyone, including wheelchair users, it isn’t inclusive at all.
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The Mother Bringing Autism Out Of The Dark In Iraq
Iraqi mother Shaimaa Alhashimi was tired of a lack of understanding towards her two autistic children by a society which preferred to look the other way. So she decided to do something about it by posting videos of her home life – gaining supporters, and critics, along the way.
“Why are you proud of them? They are crazy. And despite their condition, you are making money off your children.”
It is an unpleasant comment, typical of the kind posted on Shaimaa Alhashimi’s Instagram page by people seeking to shame her.
The trolls are responding to videos uploaded by the mother of two autistic and blind children, who is shattering social taboos by sharing insights into their home life in Baghdad.
“I didn’t want other parents to suffer like me and I wanted to offer a glimmer of hope to every mother and father,” she says.
Shaimaa radiates calm and now has 144,000 followers but it’s been a long road.
“Seventeen years ago, we did not know much about autism, and our understanding was that the child would sit in a corner, is not very social, and speaks very little,” the mother-of-three says.
Social stigma
Aya, 17, and Mohammed, 11, are on the autism spectrum. They are also blind due to the incomplete development of the brain’s outer layer which affected their optic nerve.
Shaimaa says Aya was four years old when she started showing signs of autism – such as spinning herself around and starting to walk on her tiptoes. There are no official figures for how many children have autism in Iraq and it’s often difficult to get a diagnosis.
Shatha Ali Khadum, a psychologist and director of the Babylon Centre for Autism, Speech and Learning Difficulties in Baghdad, estimates about 20,000 children in Iraq are autistic.
But this is probably an undercount as there’s a sense of shame associated with having a disability in Iraq and parents would not want their children “labelled” as such.
“There is currently no government support specifically for this group, and there are no government centres or shelters dedicated to them,” says Ms Khadum.
When Aya was 11, she experienced an incident in one of those centres, which made Shaimaa decide to take matters into her own hands and home school her.
One day, when Shaimaa was late to pick her daughter up, the girl was left in the guard’s room on her own. Shaimaa believes there was an attempt to harass her.
When she was checking Aya’s body for any signs of harassment or struggle, she says discomfort was visible on her face and Aya even pushed her mother’s hand away.
“Even to this day, when we try to hug Aya, she leaves a small distance, and if we pull her closer to us, she pulls away.”
Shaimaa says no specialist school would accept her children, because they were both blind and autistic.
She also ruled out sending them to a private school, though she can afford it, because other parents who had tried to enrol their autistic children said they were not welcomed in class.
“I don’t want to make myself or my children go through this situation,” says Shaimaa. “When you send an autistic child to school and they feel happy, then lose that feeling, do you know what that does to them?”
This led Shaimaa and her husband to invest their time, effort, and money in developing their children.
Shaimaa got in contact with specialists in the UK, Sweden, and the US, and also brought in a Braille teacher for Mohammed.
Despite his young age, Mohammed has a big role in family life, especially when it comes to his sister Aya.
“If Aya gets anxious, Mohammed calms her down, and if she gets upset, he goes to comfort her,” says Shaimaa.
Hurtful encounters
When Shaimaa and her family go out in public, they get a lot of stares.
She recalls an incident in a children’s playground where Mohammed was trying to climb up the slide, but not using the stairs. Some parents were worried that their children would try to do the same and hurt themselves.
“As a mother, I wish there was a law to hold such people accountable, especially since these situations have affected my mental health,” says Shaimaa. “I would go home, not wanting to go out with my children again.”
As a result, Shaimaa got Aya and Mohammed badges which read “I have autism, be patient with me”.
Shaimaa gets emotional when she tells me how another mother approached Mohammed one day to read his badge.
The mother then went back to her three children and told them to help Mohammed if he needed it. It’s a sign of how society is changing.
Shaimaa created her Instagram page in 2020 after Covid shut all government centres. At the start, she received comments such as “Why does this girl speak so slowly?”.
Shaimaa tried to ignore them but then she noticed her followers replying and explaining that Aya has autism spectrum disorder.
Another positive step to a more inclusive world.
One of the hidden sides of autism is the physical and mental pressures parents face.
Mohammed needed two years to learn the piano and Shaimaa repeats words to Aya several times a day to develop her ability to communicate.
“Before, I had an immense fear of what was to come, my children’s condition, what will happen to them if I am not around?” she says.
“These thoughts haunt every mother every day. But now, it does not. Instead, I have hope and motivation. Aya relies on herself 70% of the time and Mohammed 90%.”
Shaimaa’s top tip to parents is patience.
“When you scold them or they sense you are annoyed, it’s over. It may be difficult to make progress now but who knows in a year or two.”
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A woman who used virtual reality to understand her child’s visual impairment says seeing the world through her daughter’s eyes is “mind blowing”.
Caroline Henderson’s daughter Aibhilin, seven, was diagnosed with ocular albinism and nystagmus at 11 weeks old.
When Caroline and her husband Carl used a VR headset developed in Belfast, they found it “overwhelming”.
It showed them just how frustrating her visual impairment was for Aibhilin.
“It was very overwhelming and it made us realise just how frustrating and how her world is very different to the way her dad and I see the world,” says Caroline.
“It made perfect sense why the playground and classroom can be really frustrating and she doesn’t read non-verbal social cues.”
The software was developed in Belfast by Sara McCracken, whose twins were born at 29 weeks and registered blind at just six months.
Peter and Connie have oculocutaneous albinism and nystagmus, which means their eyes move involuntarily from side to side and they have reduced vision.
Ms McCracken wanted the wider world to understand how people with visual impairments, like her twins, see every day.
The system recreates more than 30 eye conditions in a variety of settings such as a school classroom, a busy street, bus or play park.
The team involved include experts from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and Ulster University.
“We’ve developed software that can be manipulated to create lots of different eye conditions,” says Ms McCracken.
“It’s a very effective way of giving people who don’t have clinical information or knowledge a really immersive impression of visual impairment.
“It’s very effective for parents to be able to understand and change the way they advocate for their child but also for schools to understand the impact it has on children in the classroom or playground and, beyond that, for adults who have a visual impairment too.”
For Caroline, the Empatheyes software has made her more understanding of Aibhilin’s behaviour.
She says children with visual impairments often get very tired by the end of the week, their vision has deteriorated, and the way they are parented or taught needs to be adapted.
“I think sometimes the children with visual impairment, you’re seeing the tip of the iceberg and not understanding what’s underneath and driving that behaviour,” she explains.
“Thursdays and Fridays are Aibhilin’s most challenging days at school.
“But now, understanding her nystagmus and the way that she sees the world, and she’s tired because she’s held it together all week.
“I think without doing the VR technology we wouldn’t understand the difference between the Aibhilin we have on a Monday and the Aibhilin we have on a Friday.”
Empatheyes works as a social enterprise. Its team is based at the Innovation Factory in west Belfast.
Its software is being used in schools, healthcare settings and offices across the UK and Ireland.
Next month it will be shown to an international audience at the Vision 2023 conference in Denver.
“The United States is a massive market and they don’t have anything like it there,” says Ms McCracken.
“There’s a lot of excitement already from professionals over there to see this VR system that we created right here in Northern Ireland.”
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