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Psychotherapist David O'Driscoll explores what post-pandemic grief support could look like for people with learning disabilities.

Multiply marginalised due to being a mixed race, autistic woman, Mette writes for Learning Disability Today about how she experiences a world that wasn't built for her. 

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 also protected under law.

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 stay connected.

"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".

"In my own case, I have 'mild cerebral palsy hemiparesis', which means two limbs are affected".

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.

Harrow Mencap's Information, Communications and Engagement Coordinator, Edward Rowe, makes the case for why campaigning not only improves clients' quality of life but also makes business sense. 

"Unable to see the small group of friends who understand me, I knew that I would struggle."