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Disability Awareness - Dates For Your Calendar
January:-
4 – World Braille Day
11 – Paget’s Awareness Day (a disease of the bones)
18 – Blue Monday
18-24 January: Cervical Cancer Prevention Week
February:-
18 – International Asperger’s Day
1-7 – Children’s Mental Health Week
1-7 – Tinnitus Awareness Week
4 February: World Cancer Day
4 February: Time to Talk Day
8 February: International Epilepsy Day
22 February: World Encephalitis Day
28 February: Rare Disease Day
March:-
1-31 – Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
1-31 – Endometriosis Month
1-31 – Brain Tumour Awareness Month
1 – International Wheelchair Day
2-7 – Eating Disorders Awareness Week
3 – World Hearing Day
11 – World Kidney Day
12 – World Glaucoma Day
21 – World Down Syndrome Day
24 – World Tuberculosis Day
30 March-5 April World Autism Awareness Week
April:-
1-30 – Stress Awareness Month
1-30 – Loss of Limb Awareness Month
2 – World Autism Awareness Day
4 – HIE (Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy) Remembrance Day
7 – World Health Day
11 – World Parkinson’s Day
17 – World Hemophilia Day
19-25 – MS Awareness Week
24 – World Meningitis Day
25 – World Malaria Day
29 – International Guide Dog Day
May:-
4-10 May – Deaf Awareness Week
5 – World Asthma Day
6 – International Awareness Day for Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Brittle Bones)
10 – World Lupus Day
18 – 24 – Mental Health Awareness Week
20 – World Autoimmune Arthritis Day
June:-
17 – 23 – Learning Disability Week
19 – World Sickle Cell Day
July:-
Disability Pride Month
24 – Samaritans Awareness Day
28 – World Hepatitis Day
September:-
World Alzheimer’s month
10 – World Suicide Prevention Day
21 – World Alzheimer’s Day
October:-
5-11 – Dyslexia Awareness Week
6-12 – Dyspraxia week
6 – World Cerebral Palsy Day
8 – World Sight Day
10 – World Mental Health Awareness Day
12 – World Arthritis Day
22 – International Stammering Awareness Day
24 – World Polio Day
November:-
2-6 – National Stress Awareness Week
6 – National Stress Awareness Day
14 – World Diabetes Day
December:-
1 – World Aids Day
3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities
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