Lived experience

This Learning Disability Week, Ciara Lawrence - who works at Mencap and has a learning disability - writes about launching her own podcast and her passion for people with a learning disability having a voice, after feeling socially isolated during lockdown. 

Drug resistant epilepsy is a term used to describe when adequate trials of two anti-epileptic drugs have failed to control a person’s seizures. Emma Murphy describes she continuously adapts and adjusts treatment to manage her son's epilepsy. 

This year’s Oscar nominees featured two films and a documentary which shine a light on disability in various forms.

To coincide with Autism Awareness Week, training and employment charity, Landau, have launched the We See You campaign, which will tell the stories of some of the 3,000 people it has helped into training or employment.  

A look at the Nutrition and Wellbeing Project launched by learning disability charity Dimensions that aims to improve health outcomes for people with a learning disability and autism through nutrition.

Young people with learning disabilities have stepped into key worker roles during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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. 

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

Jordyn Zimmerman recently graduated with her bachelors degree in education policy from Ohio University. Diagnosed as autistic, Jordyn did not have access to a communication system until 2014, at the age of 18 years old. She writes for Learning Disability Today about how the world can be made more inclusive of autistic people who use alternative and augmentative communication (AAC).