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The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDer) makes for sobering reading and shows one in eight deaths of people with learning disabilities currently under review are down to delays or abuse.
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Imagine seeing and tasting a favourite song as well as being drawn to its familiar melody. This is how those with synesthesia — a condition where the senses are joined — can experience the world.
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The charity compared their new survey of almost 900 autistic people with the government’s own data and now call for more research on loneliness and autism.
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The Government has approved some suggestions from campaigners to make benefits forms more accessible for people with a learning disability.
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New official guidance from NICE aims to improve community support for people with learning disabilities and behaviour that challenges.
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New training is being provided by people with learning disabilities and autism to help staff understand unique needs and support.
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"Learning disabled people should not die on average twenty years before their non-disabled peers," said the family of Connor Sparrowhawk following the sentencing.
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To mark World Down's Syndrome Awareness Day, HiJinx inclusive theatre group talk about the stigma-busting legacy of their recent tour of Lesotho in Southern Africa.
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This year's world Down's Syndrome awareness campaign aims to explain how people with Down's Syndrome can and do make meaningful contributions throughout their lives.
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Recognition has been given to individuals and teams involved in education, health, social care, employment, community projects and volunteering at the Autism Professionals Awards.
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