Meet Chelsea Roff. An average waitress who raised her sister alone from a very young age, suffered from an eating disorder (weighing only 58 pounds at one point of time) and runs a non profit yoga clinic to help people suffering from the former. Her friends and colleagues step in to trap her in this
Great Mistakes of Great Minds – The Piltdown Chicken Say what you will about Scientists but they love a good argument. Give them a topic and they will happily debate, argue, threaten and invent ways to get one over on their peers. Not that this is a problem, rather it remains the essential if argumentative
It’s hard to remember when precisely it happened, but computers really have revolutionised how nearly everything is done today. Whether you tap it on a tablet or key it into a keyboard, computers have made it easier to get things done right. Ofcourse, they’ve also made it so much easier to get things spectacularly wrong.
First deaf-blind person to enroll in a school of higher education and inspiration for disabled people throughout the world. The daughter of a confederate Captain who fought for the South during the American Civil War, Helen Adams Keller was born on the 27th of June 1880 in Tuscumbria, Alabama in the USA where her parents
Prester John : The Phantom King Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, it seems like every other day an email arrives from a troubled foreign prince or government official in distress. In return for your bank account details, they promise to give you a share of their vast wealth when they inevitably move their savings through
Great Mistakes of Great Minds: The Four Humours. Historians across the world like to look back fondly upon the ancient Greeks. Wise, cultured and learned, despite their place firmly in the “BC” part of the calendar. History teachers, in particular, like to endlessly praise how wonderfully clever and smart the Greeks were, between their Trojan
Many a school child in the English speaking world has come to revile the name of that famous bard. From Canterbury to Canberra, young minds taught in old ways have come to associate poorly taught, uninteresting English classed with the name “Shakespeare”. But what about that other great blight on the school calendar – that
Everyone remembers the songs and rhymes of their childhood. Those of us with children of our own in turn pass them on to our own kids. Remembering the words and the rhymes seem as simple as breathing to many of us, to the point where few of us can actually recall ever having to learn
At long last 2014 is upon us as 2013 gently floats away into the preserve of memory. Naturally with a new year comes a new round of resolutions made to make this year better than the last. Traditionally these are undertaken with great gusto and seriousness – the pledges to lose weight, to get a
Education opens doors to success windows of opportunity and in at least one case, gates to new possibilities. Such is the case with ADL success story Annabella Baker. Originally from Italy, but now living in the UK, Annabella faced a tragedy all too familiar to many when she lost her airline job during the Covid
Gardens are hard work.  Behind every immaculate lawn and carefully tended flowerbed is a never-ending struggle between nature and gardener. Of course simply leaving the garden to its own devices isn’t really an option; Untended, plants will grow freely for the whole of spring and summer and even into autumn. Worse yet, an uncared for
Some stories of educational achievement soar into the heavens. Of individuals who through hard work and toil overcame the challenges in their life to achieve. Certainly, at ADL we’ve seen and helped many individuals achieve their dreams through completing a course which helped them get a place at university or begin a new career. This,
If you’ve been in the UK over the past weekend you might have noticed you had a day off on Monday (or looked on enviously as other people had a day off). The coronation of a new monarch in Charles the Third means a new era. One that the Monarch is especially keen does not
If you’re looking for a side business or career that combines a love for fitness and a mentoring role. personal training might be for you Personal training is at it’s heart all about being able to help people live healthier, happier lives. By combining physical exercise with essential lifestyle changes like diet they help their
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