A new website has been launched aimed at augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users, parents, carers and professionals, which brings together evidence and information to improve support and services for people with speech… Read More...
This week’s Panorama documentary showed that the Government’s Work Programme, designed to get the long-term unemployed into work, often doesn’t provide the support people with disabilities need to help them find a job. Read More...
Disability charity Scope has claimed that the Government’s Work Programme, which is designed to help the long-term unemployed back into work, is not providing the specialist support disabled people need to find work. Read More...
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT), the main provider of mental health and learning disability services in the county, has become only the third mental health organisation in the country to be awarded University Trust… Read More...
In the past week, 2 reports have shown how cuts to social care services and benefits are hitting people with disabilities. As the weight of evidence against their policies grows, will the Government listen? Read More...
A team of child psychologists have developed an iPad app that will enable professionals working with children to survey, explore and quantify almost any physical or mental experience or symptom. Read More...
Seven British skiers with learning disabilities are heading to South Korea to represent their country at the Special Olympics World Winter Games, which starts this weekend. Read More...