July 2012

A national project is helping young people with learning disabilities or communication difficulties who are at risk of offending to enhance their life chances. Katy Palmer reports
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A man with Down’s syndrome has been celebrating working for the same wine merchants for 20 years.
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The National Autistic Society's (NAS) bid to run an autism-specific free school in Reading has been approved by the Department for Education.
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Specific language impairments affect a person’s ability to understand language, but can be easily missed – with detrimental effects to the sufferer, as Maxine Frances Roper explains.
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Scott Watkin is a worried man. The learning disability consultant has already experienced the impact of government cuts and fears that things will get even worse in the coming years.Speaking at the annual Learning Disability Today…
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Dan Parton looks at some shocking statistics from Mencap on disability hate crime linked to cuts to public services.
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For the majority of people with learning disabilities, it seems that bullying and harassment are just a part of everyday life.As far back as 2000, Mencap’s ‘Living in Fear’ report found that 90% of respondents with a learning disability…
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The government’s plans for reforming social care are gathering pace, with the recent publication of the Law Commission’s review report on adult social care law.While some of the headline recommendations from the Commission contained the…
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Some good news about autism this week: it seems that more of the general population know about the condition - and services are increasingly adapting their approaches to become more autism-friendly.
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This week, up to 7,000 existing incapacity benefit (IB)claimants will receive letters they have been dreading; asking themto be re-assessed for their benefit.While the mainstream mediawent with the 'benefit crackdown' angle on this, the…
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