03/10/2026
Hi Everyone! From a disability perspective, October is:
National Disability Employment Awareness month (USA), ADHD Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Awareness month, World Blindness Awareness month, Colon Cancer Awareness month, Depression Education and Awareness month, Down Syndrome Awareness month, Dysautonomia Awareness month, Dyslexia Awareness month, Eczema Awareness month, Liver Cancer Awareness month, Learning Disability Awareness month, Raynauds Awareness month, Rett Syndrome Awareness month, Selective Mutism Awareness month, Spina Bifida Awareness month, and Stomp Out Bullying month.
Important Days and Weeks are as follows:
1 Oct International Day of Older Persons, 5 October American Veterans Disabled for Life Awareness Day and World Meningitis Day, 6 Oct World Cerebral Palsy Day, 6-12 Oct Dyslexia Awareness Week,7 Oct International Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day and World Day of Bullying Prevention (subject to change annually), 8 Oct Dyslexia Day (Global) and World Sight Day (subject to change annually), 9 Oct PANDA/ PANS Awareness Day, 10 Oct World Mental Health Day, 14 Oct National Dyslexia Awareness Day (France), 11-17 Oct OCD Awareness Week.13 Oct Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day (USA) and World Thrombosis Day, 15 Oct Blind Americans Safety Day/ White Cane Safety Day, Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day, National Burns Day and SUDEP Action Day (Sudden Death in Epilepsy) (UK), 16 Oct Developmental Language Disorder Day, 20 Oct Day of Invisible Disabilities (Germany) and World Osteoporosis Day. 20-31 Oct Disability Mentoring Days (starts on the 3rd Wednesday of each October), 22 Oct World Stuttering Awareness Day, 24 Oct World Polio Day, 25 Oct Hydrocephalus Day, 25-31 Oct International Epidemolysis Bullosa Awareness Week and 29 Oct World Stroke Day.
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