June 2020

Psychotherapist David O'Driscoll explores what post-pandemic grief support could look like for people with learning disabilities.
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Multiply marginalised due to being a mixed race, autistic woman, Mette writes for Learning Disability Today about intersectionality and how she experiences a world that wasn't built for her. 
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Under the Human Rights Act we all have the right to private and family life and the right to marry and have a family. An entitlement to freedom of expression and to receive information, including information about sex and relationships, is…
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In this exclusive extract from 'Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities to Have a Good Life as They Grow Older', Christine Towers shares how to best help people to keep social connections.
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Part Two of Learning Disability Today's Change It Up survey polled individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism about emotional and physical aspects of their health. Here we examine the healthcare approaches respondents said they…
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Cerebral palsy is a group of conditions that primarily affect coordination, movement, and muscle tone. ‘Cerebral’ refers to the cerebrum, ‘palsy’ refers to a weakness or muscle paralysis. It is a lifelong condition.
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"Restless nights aren’t always hours of busy heightened activity into the early hours, or absolute melt-down. It’s often an exhausting in-between of endless enforced “resting" and not sleeping".
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have released figures regarding the number of deaths of people with learning disabilities between 10th April and 15th May of this year.
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