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Efforts to reduce bottlenecks in ADHD assessments has led to criticisms over falling standards. Now medics suggest it is time to impose standards to restore confidence in the diagnosis.
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Is it time to end the use of isolation rooms in schools after claims pupils were tortured in them at a Walthamstow special school?
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Since losing her son Oliver in 2016 Paula McGowan has used her grief and anger to fight for much needed changes for people with learning disabilities and autism.
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Autistic man Nicholas Thornton lost the ability to walk and speak after spending over a decade detained in unsuitable care settings.
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Loneliness is a silent killer with the socially isolated more vulnerable to stroke, heart disease, depression, anxiety and dementia. But here Darren Devine looks at ways of combating the feelings of loneliness that have become so intense…
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This article hears how one family’s efforts to build a supported living property called Linden Farm for their son has inspired others around the country to follow suit.
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Four years ago plans were ushered in to extend blue badge applications to people with hidden disabilities like Parkinson’s disease, autism, dementia and epilepsy. The government promised the move would “change thousands of lives”, but has…
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A a group of three families want to end rules under the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) that can see parents shut out of key decisions.
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