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From the editor |
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In this issue, three parents share aspects of their personal experience of disability and parenthood. One mother, who is Deaf-blind, describes the challenges that she had to face to secure the education she wanted for her children. In the next journal, she will explore the additional challenge of transporting her daughters to school. Continuing the themes of schools and education, and in the light of the requirements of the new UK Disability Equality Duty legislation (summarised on page 13), we review DPPI's latest resources - schools guides, offering valuable information to parents, and to teachers and others working with visually impaired and deaf parents. Many disabled parents find access, communication and attitudes at their children's schools difficult. The new legislation, which also covers other public authorities, should help bring about much-needed and far-reaching changes for disabled parents and, importantly, raise general awareness of disability, which must gradually improve attitudes to equality in wider communities. Christine Winwood |
