Attitudes to Disability

Why I'm proud of my family.

Back from a holiday in Devon

How knowledge and information should be freely available, not restricted till professionals feel we can cope with it.

When our children were not allowed on a bouncy castle because of their disability

Difficulties with the attitudes people have towards our children

An update on therapy provision for our daughter, plus a discussion on society's attitude to disability

A charity despairs at public ignorance about people with learning problems. Yet it’s the constant redefinition of disability that sows confusion.

An MP with a cleft palate will tomorrow introduce an amendment to the embryology bill that could reduce the number of late abortions on the grounds of disability. Nick Palmer, the Labour MP for Broxtowe, wants doctors and clinics to be forced to provide mothers with the most up-to-date scientific and medical information about a foetal disability.

Schools should appoint a member of staff to look after each pupil with disabilities or special educational needs, under new government guidelines aimed at stamping out bullying issued today.

Schools in England are being advised on how to stop the bullying of children with special needs or disabilities.

The UN is celebrating the coming into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) - a landmark agreement that aims to give the world's 650m disabled people full equality.

Aardman Animations, the company behind Wallace & Gromit and Creature Comforts, has developed a range of new characters for a disability awareness campaign.

A heartfelt plea from a woman with her own disabled child.

Removing the womb of disabled girl Katie Thorpe would constitute an abuse of her human rights and would set an alarming precedent argues Scope's Andy Rickell

A severely disabled teenager’s womb may be removed to improve her quality of life, and not because it is medically necessary, in what is thought to be a British first which has reignited debate over medical ethics.

India Knight writes about the tendency for society to institutionalise disabled children in the recent past.

A 12-year-old girl with special needs has been let off criminal charges which had been brought against her - for wetting herself.