In her regular column for Able magazine, Jane Muir shares her ongoing experiences of life with – and without – her disabled son. I may be a literacy teacher with a degree in modern languages, but the letters I receive from the benefits agencies leave me struggling. Possibly they constitute some kind of arcane computerised [...]
In her regular column for Able magazine, Jane Muir shares her ongoing experiences of life with – and without – her disabled son. 2010 started out with the week’s dance course we had fundraised for Alistair to go to at the Orpheus Centre in Surrey, which runs short and long courses in the performing arts [...]
In her regular column for Able magazine, Jane Muir shares her ongoing experiences of life with – and without – her disabled son. Well, my son has gone back to residential college. While part of him wanted to stay at home, he was also ‘excited’ and, while part of me would miss him, I was [...]
I had planned so meticulously for the eight weeks’ summer holiday after my son Alistair’s first year at college. I spent the first week training our two new carers, Katy and Jacques, the idea being that, by week two, they would be confident enough to be left on their own. I’ll never know whether it [...]
In her regular column for Able magazine, Jane Muir shares her ongoing experiences of life with – and without – her disabled son. It is now nearing the end of my son’s first year at a residential college for students with physical disabilities.
In her regular column for Able magazine, Jane Muir shares her ongoing experiences of life with – and without – her disabled son. My son Alistair has been away at residential college for two terms, and he loves it.
Most parents get to seperate from their kids by degrees. in her first column for Able magazine, Jane Muir – the solo carer for her severely diabled son - explains how the separation for her came “suddenly, and not a little painfully”. My son is 17, and has just left home to go to one [...]
