Disability news round up: a Government U-turn and counselling while waiting for a bus

Ministers have announced a U-turn on controversial plans to axe some benefit payments to disabled people living in care homes.

The government had planned to axe the mobility part of Disability Living Allowance for those in residential care but following criticism from charities, the decision has been reversed.

Disability groups hailed the decision to withdraw the plans while emphasising the "need to urge the Government to listen" and suggesting "this is the start but it is not the end" of their campaigns.

Elsewhere in the news:

Phone for psychological help 'while waiting for a bus' (BBC News)

Deaf-blind photographer Ian Treherne in London exhibition (BBC News)

Paralysed man seeks right to die (BBC News)

Watchdog NICE says no to eye drug Lucentis for diabetes (BBC News)

Brazil ballet school for the blind and visually impaired (BBC News)

Brain find sheds light on autism (BBC News)

Lung transplant 'gave me 20 more years with my husband' (BBC News)

Social networking can lighten the darkness of depression (Comment is free, The Guardian)

Mental health discrimination is coming from the top, not the public (Joe Public blog, The Guardian)

Privatising care will inevitably lead to lower standards (The Guardian)

Disabled tenants stranded in inaccessible housing (The Guardian)

Asthmatics given new hope with new air cleaning machine (The Telegraph)

Swearing can beat pain: research (The Telegraph)

Where disabled people can take life by the reins (The Telegraph)

Help for the visually impaired in Bangladesh (FT.com)

Deaf man suing after being jailed for 25 days 'without a sign language interpreter' (Mail Online)

Britain's carers face financial ruin and stress, survey reveals (The Mirror)