... The resolutions include educational equality, employment opportunities, establishing special support/knowledge centers across the country, better healthcare facilities, introduction of a comprehensive health policy, opening and maintaining of bank accounts and introduction of a medical passport ...
Growing Up
The Diary of a Not So Ordinary Boy, 21st August 2015
... he woke up with a whispered ‘yesssss’ at half past five (presumably he was relieved at his survival of the night), but being as he was right next to me, I told him the time and he nodded right back off with a huff ...
Home Schooling, and Teaching, a Child with Down Syndrome
Home Schooling, and Teaching, a Child with Down Syndrome
Kari Wagner-Peck, Parenting Blogs, New York Times,15th February 2015
... He sat in the back of the classroom while other students participated in group activities, counting to four with his one-to-one aid. At home, he could count to 50.
Inclusion, we realized, works only if everyone involved believes in a child’s ability to be included and to contribute something to the group ...
... He sat in the back of the classroom while other students participated in group activities, counting to four with his one-to-one aid. At home, he could count to 50.
Inclusion, we realized, works only if everyone involved believes in a child’s ability to be included and to contribute something to the group ...
I’m Tina, I’m a mum, this is my journey…
Down's Syndrome Association (UK)...When she came to our house, the midwife spoke gently; she reminded us what she had told me on my booking-in appointment regarding the nuchal screening and what the results meant. I couldn’t remember ever hearing this before; had I really agreed to have this done? Why did I not realise the importance of everything I had agreed to? ...
Maryanne and Tommy have a lesson for us all
Angela Kelly, Preston Citizen, 29th July 2015
The story of the couple with Down’s Syndrome who have just renewed their wedding vows after 20 years of married life is wonderfully heartwarming ...
The Weekly With Charlie Pickering Series 1 Ep 19
Katrina Scior, The Conversation, 27th August 2015The story of the couple with Down’s Syndrome who have just renewed their wedding vows after 20 years of married life is wonderfully heartwarming ...
The Weekly With Charlie Pickering Series 1 Ep 19
ABC TV, 26th August 2015 (on iView until 16th September 2015)
Comedy. Interview with Graeme Innes, disability advocate starts at 19 mins.
Are attitudes changing to the 1.4m people in the UK with a learning disability?
Are attitudes changing to the 1.4m people in the UK with a learning disability?
... 'Changing Attitudes to learning disability', a new review I produced for publication by Mencap, points to a double standard in public attitudes towards people with a learning disability. The British Social Attitudes Survey in 2009 found that just 41% of parents would feel very comfortable if their child had a classmate with a learning disability, compared to 76% for physical and sensory disabilities. This highlights a key problem: on the whole people say that those with a learning disability should be treated equally, but at the same time many behave in subtly prejudiced ways which in fact reinforce negative stereotypes ...
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