Some of these books romanticized the disability, some were infantilized, while others portrayed the disabled characters as avoiding the world.

She is the soap's first disabled regular character in 50 years.

Auditions were held for the part of a new disabled character in 2007.

The testimony, the words and actions, of this doomed character will then reveal to the audience the 'natural' and inevitable decline of the disabled character.

Long before disability was a campaigning issue for me I'd found actors playing disabled characters embarrassing.

There are a few disabled characters but fully inclusive casting is not routine.

Now think of a disabled character.

The first is that there surely are cases of non-disabled actors portraying disabled characters perfectly convincingly.

While Henshall stated: "I never attempt to play Dean as a 'disabled character'.

There has been some controversy over the fact that many of the disabled characters in the film were played by able-bodied actors.