Disability news round up: vibrating dance floor, football helps fan's depression

With a year to go to the Paralympics, dressage gold medal winner Lee Pearson has called on administrators and other competitors to be more frank about their disabilities.

It was announced a "multi-sensory club night for both the hearing and the hearing-impaired" would visit London in October.

The event already has a dedicated following in the Netherlands, Finland, South Africa and Australia and includes a vibrating dance floor, aroma jockeys who spray different scents to accompany the music, and signing dancers who interpret tracks.

And in an extract from his new book on the Guardian website, journalist and lifelong Spurs fan John Crace explained how football helps him live with depression.

Elsewhere in the news:

Disability assessments 'will be fair' (BBC News)

Disability allowance 'a necessity, not luxury (BBC News)

Cinema subtitle glasses give promise to deaf film fans (BBC News)

UK stem cell stroke trial passes first safety test (BBC News)

World Athletics 2011: Pistorius must run relay first leg

Paraplegic pilot lands in Australia after 12,000 mile journey (Sky News)

Paralympians warn legal aid reforms will penalise serious accident victims (The Guardian)

The Equality Act: legislation introduced in 2010 could mean that landlords have greater responsibility to their disabled tenants (The Guardian)

Swansea University develops diabetes text alerts (The Guardian)

Disabled lawyers still face discrimination(The Guardian)

Brazil's blind ballet dancers find their stride (The Independent)

Mental illness care 'close to revolution' (The Independent)

Rail company under fire from disabled passengers over ramp removal(The Daily Telegraph)

Tacit wrist-mounted device helps the visually impaired see (Gadgets and Gizmos)

Dwarfs with giant dreams in Nigeria (Nigerian Tribune)

Report links mental illness to climate change (Radio Australia)

A Belgian film about three disabled young men has won awards at the Montreal World Film Festival (Hollywood Reporter)