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Enabling communication is vital in families of deaf children | Charlie Swinbourne
Families need to learn to sign for the sake of their deaf children – yet they are often denied the chance In the last few weeks, a video of a deaf mother and her two year-old daughter Ava having a dinner conversation in British Sign Language (BSL) has gone viral.
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Enabling communication is vital in families of deaf children | Charlie Swinbourne
‘Appalling neglect’: how NHS let down the most vulnerable
Mencap says deaths of at least 74 patients with learning disabilities were linked to institutional discrimination Lisa Sharpe was healthy at birth but at four and a half months old she became floppy and went into a coma. It left her severely brain damaged as a result of Reye’s syndrome, which damaged 90% of her brain, with cerebral palsy and epilepsy
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‘Appalling neglect’: how NHS let down the most vulnerable
The demonisation of the disabled is a chilling sign of the times | Ian Birrell
There is a climate of hostility towards people for whom life is already difficult and it is being fostered by politicians and journalists Peter Greener endured a barrage of hate from his neighbour. Sometimes, it was eggs thrown at his house, stones thrown at his windows or paint thrown at his fence; more often, it was words hurled in his face: spastic, cripple, scum, scrounger. These assaults went on for months, leaving the former Nissan car-sprayer in floods of tears, feeling suicidal and on antidepressants
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The demonisation of the disabled is a chilling sign of the times | Ian Birrell
The demonisation of the disabled is a chilling sign of the times | Ian Birrell
There is a climate of hostility towards people for whom life is already difficult and it is being fostered by politicians and journalists Peter Greener endured a barrage of hate from his neighbour. Sometimes, it was eggs thrown at his house, stones thrown at his windows or paint thrown at his fence; more often, it was words hurled in his face: spastic, cripple, scum, scrounger. These assaults went on for months, leaving the former Nissan car-sprayer in floods of tears, feeling suicidal and on antidepressants
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The demonisation of the disabled is a chilling sign of the times | Ian Birrell
Behind the music: So you like going to gigs. Ever tried doing it in a wheelchair?
Gig venues are meant to offer an ‘equal experience’ to disabled fans. Many don’t – but things are slowly changing Chances are you’ve never thought about disabled access at gigs, unless you or someone close to you has a disability. My father had to walk with a cane from the age of eight (when he contracted polio), so I became aware from an early age of the difficulties he had to face.
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Behind the music: So you like going to gigs. Ever tried doing it in a wheelchair?
Do cuts kill?
The tragic deaths of a vulnerable couple living “hand-to-mouth” has highlighted the potentially catastrophic consequences of drastic cuts to benefits and services on those least able to cope The most shattering aspect of the video interview in which Mark Mullins describes his and his partner Helen’s struggle to survive acute poverty is the knowledge that a few months after it was recorded, both were dead, having killed themselves in an “apparent suicide pact”. The video, filmed at a Coventry soup kitchen run by a Salvation Army charity worker, is a humbling, devastating chronicle of a tragedy foretold: a couple whose urgent and complex social care needs were seemingly ignored by a glacial welfare system which both baffled and terrified them, and may ultimately have crushed them. Once a week, Mark told the interviewer, they would undertake a 12-mile round trip on foot to the food kitchen
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Do cuts kill?
