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Tate Liverpool gets Night Fever: Step back in time and re-live the 1970s with ‘Magic Mirror Ball’
1stAngel Arts Magazine —
Authority: 155
Tate Liverpool gets Night Fever: Step back in time and re-live the 1970s with ‘Magic Mirror Ball’ -1.0 5 2009-11-05 00:08:11 1stAngel Tate Liverpool Public information number: 0151 702 7400 Thursday 26 November 2009 (19.00 – 22.00) Admission: £5 Enquiries & bookings: 0151 702 7400 Accessible ...5 days ago -
NYC Special Needs School Fair at the JCC in Manhattan
NYC Private Schools Blog —
Authority: 421
The Special Needs School Fair which took place at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Manhattan on Thursday evening, October 29, 2009 is a wonderful resource for parents and professionals who want to learn what’s available for special needs children in NYC and environs. This is the fourth year that the Fair is ...5 days ago -
Getting It Wrong: Rate Your Students and Ableism
FWD/Forward —
Authority: 645
[Possible trigger warning for upsetting and ableist language] As some of you may know, I am a graduate student getting my Master’s Degree in Women and Gender Studies. I currently have vague career aspirations of getting my PhD or at least remaining in academia in some capacity; my academic interests primarily have ...5 days ago -
Boundless 2 - Connecting Artists
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 982
A unique group exhibition showing the work of artists with learning disabilities alongside mainstream artists6 days ago -
The other side of dyslexia
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 982
Dyslexia Awareness Week focuses on the benefits it brings to a sufferer, such as high IQ, curiosity and a strong work ethic I didnt discover I was dyslexic until I was 50. After discovering our children were dyslexic my wife, wanting to support the children, took herself off to study dyslexia and qualified as an ...6 days ago -
How to Deal With Dyslexia
Through The Illusion —
Authority: 417
Dyslexia is a word I can almost never type correctly the first time. (Dyselxia!) It’s also the thing I didn’t realize I had until college! What is dyslexia? Dyslexia is a learning disorder that “manifests itself primarily as a difficulty with reading and spelling”. Scientists believe that it is a ...1 week ago -
Boy rushed to hospital after swine flu jab
War On You: Breaking Alternative News —
Authority: 549
By Lisa smyth Tuesday, 27 October 2009 The safety of Northern Ireland’s swine flu vaccination programme was called into question today by the parent of a young special needs pupil who ended up in hospital just hours after getting the jab. Anne Marie Fletcher said she feared her 15-year-old son Rhys was ...1 week ago -
Looking for beds
Fighting Monsters —
Authority: 417
Something of a theme on my caseload at the moment is one of ‘delayed discharges’. I have three people in hospital medically ready for discharge and am waiting for residential or nursing placements to ‘pop up’. It’s a warped kind of waiting game with no beds being available locally and people increasingly ...1 week ago -
The human cost of screening for Downs
Comment is free | guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 154
We must provide better information about Downs syndrome to help inform the traumatic decisions behind the statistics Bland statistics usually conceal personal dramas, even tragedies. So it is with the statistics on Downs syndrome diagnosis . Many more women are being told they are carrying a baby with Downs ...1 week ago -
In the balance
The Guardian - guardian.co.uk —
Authority: 982
A national care service focusing on older people has led to fears that people with lifelong conditions will be sidelined As the fanfare of publicity over the governments green paper on social care subsides, one campaign is warning that too much attention is being paid to older people. The Learning Disability ...1 week ago -
The Kerry Robertson Story. The New Aryan Nation or what happens when the UK says you are to stupid to have children.
Upstream —
Authority: 106
If Jesus returned to earth we would kill him again, but this time we wouldn’t nail him to a cross. Instead we would strap him to a gurney, put him to sleep, and drip poison into his veins until he expired. And so it is with our new eugenics. We don’t geld men and women any more, like we did back in the thirties ...2 weeks ago -
Woman not bright enough to keep baby
Mad World —
Authority: 427
Theres a story in the Mirror today about a woman with mild learning disabilities who the Mirror says will have her baby taken from her as soon as its born.3 weeks ago -
Dyslexia Test
Home Fitness Body —
Authority: 125
Diagnosis is an important step for any illness, disease or condition. In some cases, a diagnosis can shed some insight into the areas requiring medical treatment. Surgeries or drugs may be prescribed to essentially cure a person. In other cases, the diagnosis may simply help people understand what they’re up against ...3 weeks ago -
Disorders of Written Expression
Health and Fitness —
Authority: 113
Problems in producing writing that do not seem to be linked to a child’s overall intelligence. Individuals with writing disorders typically have problems in several areas of writing, such as sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, or generating ideas and language in written form. Their ability to express concepts ...3 weeks ago -
A bit of common ground’: personalisation and the use of shared knowledge in interactions between people with learning disabilities and their personal assistants
COMD News —
Authority: 451
Personalisation is the new mantra in social care; this article focuses on how personalisation can be achieved in practice, by presenting an analysis of data from people with learning disabilities and their personal assistants (PAs), where traditional care relationships have often been shown to be disempowering (Antaki ...4 weeks ago
