April 2020

The Coronavirus 'lockdown' has meant that many people with learning disabilities lose vital social support.
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Ever since Covid-19 reached the UK, it has seemed as if the rights of disabled people - and in particular those of people with a learning disability - have been at risk. 
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Shopping can be a challenging experience for children on the autistic spectrum.  Here, Rachel Clinkard, from shoe retailer Charles Clinkard, shares how their business has been able to adapt their shops to make them more autism-friendly. 
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Autistic self-advocates claiming to speak for those with learning disabilities can cause “symbolic and substantive harms”, say parents of learning disabled children
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought a myriad of changes that impact people with learning disabilities and/or autism. Here's a round up of some of the changes...
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Football changed James Parker’s life. Part of his childhood in a mainstream school was spent friendless and bullied. Darren Devine reports. 
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School and college transport can mean the difference between autistic young people getting the education and training they need.
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Autistic adults and families are being pushed to crisis as they try to cope with the coronavirus lockdown that has closed schools, slashed respite and limited access to the outdoors to one trip a day.
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In this Learning Disability Today survey, 100 learning disabled and autistic service users share their vision of the care they’d like to receive.
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Paid and unpaid carer sickness, stringent self-isolation measures, and increased personal caring commitments make for a depleting social care workforce. Here's what the Care Act easements under the Coronavirus Act 2020 means...
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