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Journal Index of Past Articles

How to Order Past Articles

The DPPi Journal started in 1993. The DPPi Journal includes many articles, book and equipment reviews, and news items that continue to be of interest. These past “quot;articles” are available from DPPi, however you should be aware that some details may have changed over the years, since original publication.

What follows is a list of article titles in every DPPi Journal publication - the most recent listings give a little more insight into the content of the articles. We plan to improve this listing in the near future to provide even more information but hope that in the mean time it is of use to you.

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Issue 1 - January 1993

• Disabled Parents & Professionals Unite: UK Conference
• Pioneers of the West: The Childbearing & Parenting Programme in British Columbia
• Guidelines for Midwives
• Hands-on: Parentcraft Classes for Visually Impaired Women
• Through the Looking Glass: Peer professionals working with disabled parents in California
• Labour Afloat: Disabled Women Using Birthpools
• Publications: High Chairs and Children
• A Day in the Life: UK

Issue 2 - April 1993

• Righting the Picture: Images of Disabled Parents
• Supporting the Disabled Women Who Is Pregnant: Guidelines for Health Professionals
• Spinal Cord Injury & Labour: The Road to a Safe Delivery for Tetraplegic Women
• Forewarned is Forearmed: The Management of Autonomic Hyper-reflexia in Labour
• Pioneers in Partnership: The Women's Clinic at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
• Conference Report: Parenting with a Disability
• Publications: My Mum Needs Me
• A Day in the Life: Budapest, Hungary

Issue 3 - July 1993

• Who's carrying the baby?
• Parents in Wheelchairs & the Problem of Baby Transportation
• Use of Prams & Pushchairs by Visually Impaired Parents
• Product Review: Baby Slings
• Supporting the Women who is Disabled: Guidelines for Health Professional
• Harvesting Health in Harmony: The Health Resource Centre for Women with Disabilities in Chicago
• Publications: I Want To Be A Mother, I Have A Disability, What Are My Choices? Disabled Mothers: Supporting Each Other; Birth & Disability
• A Day in the Life: London, England

Issue 4 - October 1993

• Is Parenting an Activity of Daily Living? Getting personal assistance with childcare
• A Ramp to Parenting: The testimony of Leigh Campbell-Earl
• Carrying On: Update on baby carriers for wheelchair users
• Help or Hindrance? Practitioners working with parents with learning difficulties
• The Special Parenting Service: Supporting parents with learning difficulties
• Testing, Testing, The New Eugenics? The impact of the new reproductive technologies on disabled people
• Publications: Getting into Health
• A Day in the Life: Italy

Issue 5 - January 1994

• A Quest for Accessible Baby Cribs
• Maternity Care for the Deaf: A Midwife's Mission
• Pregnancy, Parenthood & Parkinson's Disease
• Resources on Pregnancy & Parenting for People with Learning Difficulties
• Publications: I Thought I Was The Only One; Mothers Pride & Prejudice; Listen To Us For A Change
• A Day in the Life: Kampala, Uganda

Issue 6 - April 1994

• Backing the Expert: Enabling disabled parents to meet their personal assistance needs
• A Joint Initiative: Supporting mothers with arthritis
• Disabled Women Making Choices: Where to receive reproductive health services
• Both Sides of the Fence: A midwifes experience of becoming a disabled mother
• Publications: You and Your Child
• A Day in the Life: Bali

Issue 7 - July 1994

• The Bumpy Road To Adoption
• Testing Reality: The challenges of prenatal testing for disabled women
• Choosing or Refusing Prenatal Tests: Making conscious decisions
• Equipment Information for Parents with Disabilities
• A Midwifes Tale of Disabled Motherhood Part 2
• Publications: Reproductive Issues for People with Disabilities; Musn't Grumble
• A Day in the Life: England

Issue 8 - October 1994

• Adoption: your letters
• Focus on Fatherhood: Rugby, Relationships & Raising a Son
• Focus on Fatherhood: Fertility Treatment for Men with Spinal Injuries
• Childcare Equipment for Disabled Parents
• Practical Tips on Parenting with a Visual Impairment
• Publications: Childbirth Education for Women with Disabilities and Their Partners; Table Manners: A Guide to the Pelvic Examination for Disabled Women and Health Care Providers

Issue 9 - January 1995

• Birth Reports: Childbirth for Women with Spina Bifida
• And So to Bed: Accessible Cots of Disabled Parents
• Holiday Connections: A new approach to supporting parents with learning difficulties
• in Denmark
• Teleconferencing: Peer Support for Parents with visual impairments
• Publications: Mother, Father Deaf

Issue 10 - April 1995

• Deaf Mothers: The need to understand
• Room to Grow: Planning a Domestic Nursery
• Families at Risk? Disabled Parents with Child Protection
• Mum, Dad and I.T.: Aids to Parenting with a Visual Impairment
• What Do Disabled Parents Need? News of Two National Surveys
• Publications: Families First

Issue 11 - Jul 1995

• An Inclusive Philosophy of Care: Good Practice in Maternity Services
• Learning to Adapt: Aids and Equipment for Childcare
• First Hand Experience: How parents with leaning difficulties learn to parent
• What Price Freedom? Disabled Parents and Child Safety
• Telephone Support for Visually Impaired Parents
• Publications: Are We There Yet? And Boots for a Bridesmaid

Issue 12 - October 1995

• No Specialist Hospital Birth: Visually Impaired Mothers in Hospital
• Family Holiday Snapshots: Two accounts of Holiday Abroad
• Through the Looking Glass: Update from pioneering Californian organisation
• Breathe Easy: A personal experience of Asthma and Pregnancy
• Slings, Slings and More Slings! Product Reviews
• There's No Monster in My House: Overcoming the prejudices of other parents
• Publications: Homegrown - The Harvest Will Last a Lifetime

Issue 13 - January 1996

• Caterpillars & Butterflies: A Mother with Cerebral Palsy Describes her Experiences of Childbirth
• Childbirth for Women with Cerebral Palsy
• Join the Class? An antenatal teacher's experience of supporting a mother with CP
• Along the Right Lines: Three accounts of disabled parents' involvement with their children 's schools
• Launching Forth: A New German Initiative to Recognise the Needs of Disabled Parents
• Equipment: A father describes his custom-built wheelchair babycarrier
• Parents Together: A new advocacy project to support parents with learning difficulties
• Publications: When a Parent has a Brain Injury: Sons & Daughters Speak Out

Issue 14 - April 1996

• Childbirth & ME (CFIDS)
• Watch my Lips: The Making of a Deaf Awareness Trainer
• Product Review: Feeding Cushions
• Bedside Parents: Staying in hospital with a sick child
• Good support from Social Services: One family's experience
• Publications: Brief Lives

Issue 15 - July 1996

• The Right Kind of Help: A tribute to my health visitors
• To Baby. or Not to Baby: A question of informed choice
• Drive On: Finding the right child car seat
• Disabled Parents and Social Services
• Networking in Europe: Organisations of Disabled Parents
• Publications: Maybe Another Day

Issue 16 - October 1996

• Parenting and Ankylosing Spondylitis: Report of a new survey
• Right From The Start: maternity services for people with learning disabilities
• Practical Tips: for supporting pregnant women with learning difficulties (1)
• Meeting the Dreams of Parents: the importance of adaptive equipment
• It's Party Time! Organizing children's birthday celebrations
• Towards Womanhood: Information, Choice and Role Models
• Oven-Ready Chick Seduces Dead Rat! Sex and the disables Woman
• Publications: The Sexual Politics of Disability; Untold Desires

Issue 17 - January 1997

• Multiple Sclerosis & Motherhood: Personal experience and resources
• Successful Breastfeeding: A paraplegic mother's experience
• Successful Breastfeeding: Tips and resources
• I Do/I Don't Want to be a Mother: Report of Dutch Seminar for Disabled Women
• International Conference: Call for papers
• Birth Coaching: Women with learning disabilities
• Around the World: The Azores

Issues 18 - April 1997

• Your Letters: Expert advice on preparing for a new baby
• A Calculated Risk? Taking necessary drugs in pregnancy
• Bottle Feeding Your Baby: Tips and Equipment Ideas
• We Have Babies Too! Motherhood and Friedreich's Ataxia
• Publications: Helping children with ill or disabled parents
• Around the World: Lovely parents in Japan

Issues 19 - July 1997

• Fatherhood: Becoming a Father
• Guilty by Association? Disabled Fathers Contesting Support
• Dads are not Optional: Involving disabled Fathers in childcare
• Equipment: Are the British a bunch of masochists?
• Talking about having Children: A day for people with learning difficulties
• Publications: New Books & Reviews
• Around the World: Disabled parents meet on the Internet

Issue 20 - October 1997

• Pregnant and Disabled: A recipe for change
• Having a Baby when you are Disabled: What to ask
• Those Weaning, Cleaning Days: Tips on starting your baby on solids
• Hukuna Mattata: On Safari with Wheelchair and Wildebeest
• Publications: Disabled Parents - Dispelling the Myths
• Around the World: Two women and a baby in The Netherlands

Issue 21 - January 1998

• DPPi Readers Survey
• Caesarean by Choice: Two disabled women's birth accounts
• Anaesthesia for Elective Caesarean Section
• Tips for Toilet Training
• Kid's Talk: What's it like to have a disabled parent
• Research Review - Parenting By People With Learning Disabilities: the role of the community nurse
• Around the World: Zimbabwe

Issue 22 - April 1998

• Child's Play: Make it fun both of you
• The Pleasure of Play: Playing with children when you have arthritis
• Equipment: Birth of an accessible baby crib
• Deaf motherhood: A personal experience
• Health Advocacy for deaf mothers
• Kid's Talk: What its like to have a deaf mother
• Research forum: Pregnancy and maternal hydrocephalus
• Parents with learning difficulties: family support and Services project
• Publications: Challenges in midwifery care.

Issue 23 - July 1998

• Epilepsy and Motherhood: Personal experiences
• Midwife Support for a Mother with Epilepsy
• Epilepsy and Pregnancy: What to ask
• Practical Safety Tips
• Seizure Alert Dogs: Improving safety for people with epilepsy
• Dog takes the lead
• Parents Together: Advocacy for parents with learning difficulties
• Right From the Start Conference: Maternity Alliance
• Educating Richard: A disabled mother's experience of teaching her son at home
• Through the Looking Glass: New US National Resource Center for parents with disabilities
• Parenting and Disability: What support is needed?
• New Research Project in Partnership with Women with Disabilities: Toronto, Canada

Issue 24 - October 1998

• Lift Off! DPPi Information Launch
• Let common sense prevail: Disabled mother keeps her baby
• Equipment: Accessible cribs: The clip-on bed-cot
• Customising childcare equipment: Rollator child carrier, Eazy Feet for nappy changing
• The Development of a Service for Parents with Learning Difficulties
• Kids' Talk A disabled mother's involvement with her son's schools
• Research Forum Communication skills of children who parents have Multiple sclerosis
• Tietze Syndrome
• Action for ME Seminar for Midwives
• Publications Growing up with parents who have learning difficulties
• Around the World Support for disabled parents:
• Germany, South Africa, Israel, Ontario conference

Issue 25 - January 1999

• Water birth at home Clare Brook
• Equipment: the Brio Bedsite Cot
• Mother leads the way The 'Terrible Twos'
• How our son learned to ride a bicycle
• Kids' Talk: the BEST MUM
• The Twins' Tale: at Pregnancy Diary
• Right From The Start conference report: Maternity services for women with learning difficulties
• Publications: On the Edge of Deaf Culture-Hearing Children/Deaf Parents

Issue 26 - April 1999

• Arrest and trial of disabled mother in the USA
• Motherhood before and after a stroke
• West of England disabled mothers' advocacy project and forum
• Health, homelessness and midwifery care: community liaison
• Forward together against the odds: the first six months with a new baby
• Equipment A height-adjustable hospital crib
• Research Forum UK register of anti-epileptic drugs in pregnancy
• Pregnancy and maternal hydrocephalus
• RESPECT: Research into midwifery education
• and services: Good Practice in Maternity Services
• Publications Bigger than the sky: disabled women on parenting
• Young carers and their families

Advocacy for parents with learning difficulties

Issue 27 - July 1999

• Multiple sclerosis and fatherhood
• Reflections on multiple sclerosis, pregnancy and childbirth
• The role of the MS nurse
• Specialist MS nurse training
• Family fun at Frimhurst
• Doing it for themselves: a support group for mothers with learning difficulties
• Painful decisions. Muscular dystrophy: to be or not to be parent?
• Equipment Over to you!
• Publications Butterfly Fingers and other stories
• Research Forum Housing for Independence
• Working together for child health and safety in New South Wales

Issue 28 - October 1999

• Planning ahead and sharing solutions
• Fostering and adoption
• Let's fill in the forms
• Disabled foster carers, Bristol
• Barnardos fostering agency, Yorkshire
• Books about adoption and fostering
• Positive problem solving
• Childcare equipment reviews
• Supporting a couple with learning difficulties through pregnancy
• Parenting and visual impairment
• From birth to school days
• Home-school links
• Toys website information
• Inclusive antenatal classes
• Publications
• Krücken, Babys and Barrieren, bifos
• Maternity services for parents with learning difficulties
• Research Forum
• UK disabled parenting project
• US Parent-to-Parent Network

Issue 29 - January 2000

• Your Letters
• The DPPi Information Service: one year on
• Parenthood and muscular dystrophy
• Equipment
• Accessible cribs: improvements to the clip-on bed-cot
• New sections of the UK Disability Discrimination Act
• A family with multiple sclerosis
• West of England disabled mothers' information day
• Research Forum
• Provision of services for disabled parents
• Disability, families and the need for healthcare
• Publications
• Special Parenting Service parenting skills cards
• Pregnancy and parenthood for people with cerebral palsy

Issue 30 - April 2000

• The time is right: the launch of the UK Disabled Parents Network
• Arthritis is not my life
• The North Hertfordshire Special Parenting Network
• Living with chronic pain
• New financial help for working parents
• US Parents with Disabilities Project
• Publications
• The Parenting Book for Persons with a Disability
• Adaptive Baby Care Equipment

Issue 31 - July 2000

• Your Letters
• Small treasures
• Looking back at life with an invisible disability
• Sixty years on: access to communication support
• Equipment: Equipped survey report
• DPPi at Naidex
• The P.A.L.S. Project: supporting parents who have learning difficulties in Birmingham
• 'Mothering : A Possibility' workshop in Toronto, Canada
• Some resources for disabled parents around the world
• Finding your way through the maze:
• rights to social support services in England and Wales
• Publications
• A Jigsaw of Services: Social Services Inspectorate Report
• Happy Ever Afters: a storybook guide to teaching children about disability

Issue 32 - October 2000

• Disabled midwife wins national award
• Staff changes at DPPi
• National Centre for Disabled Parents in the UK
• Fighting for the support to parent: a personal experience
• CHANGE North women's health information day
• Equipment The Baby and Child International Fair, Adapted childcare equipment and disabled parents, Baby care equipment for disabled parents in California
• Housing for Independence project
• A lesson for life; a personal experience
• Television series on human genetics
• International conference: Parents with Disabilities and their families
• WebAware
• ResearchForum
• Parenting, disability and young carers
• Disabled parents and poverty
• Publications
• Pregnancy and childcare audiocassettes

Issue 33 - January 2001

• Carrying Babies - good news - brief piece about BIME wheelchair carrier project
• It's a girl! - personal choice article written by a mum with cerebral palsy and
• acceptance.
• Look Ahead: a project supporting blind and visually impaired parents
• Just the Same - but a little different: Sunderland Support for Parents with
• Disabilities, research project and conference report
• “You poor old soul”: personal experience from a man whose mother had
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Disabled Parents and the “young carers” debate
• Research Forum - Disabled Parents and Support: report of findings of study
• into experiences and support needs

Issue 34 - April 2001

• Letter from a visually impaired mother
• “Alien” parenting: Experiences of a mother with Asperger's syndrome
• Swindon Advocacy Movement: Supporting parents with learning difficulties
• The Disabled Mother's Advocacy Project: WECIL - report
• The Frida network: a new Women's Health Project
• Equipment: report on start of Ricability evaluation of slings for disabled parents project
• Information on Baby Roll changing bag
• Information on Cosy Tots “Travel Wrap” and non-slip mats
• “Making the pieces fit”: supporting disabled adults in their parenting role - conference report from Northamptonshire
• Providing information for Deaf and hard of hearing parents - information on DPPi Deaf group project.
• Respond project for parents with learning difficulties
• Centre for Independent Living Toronto Nurturing Assistance Project
• Publications: What works with parents with learning difficulties, Incurably Human, Independent Successes, Parents with a disability and the NSW children's court, Disability and discrimination in statutory child protection, Good times, bad times: women with learning difficulties telling their stories, Community care and the law.

Issue 35 - July 2001

• Your letters - speeding up adoption process concerns
• Visual impairment - The forgotten needs of visually impaired parents (personal experience), The added support needs of visually impaired parents with sighted children (personal experience/research), Got it taped (personal experience).
• Talking to children about illness and loss - tips and review of “The Secret C”.
• Just baby and me (plus seven assistants) - single mum with spinal injury, experience of using direct payments and ILF to support her and her young son.
• Can disabled people be supported as parents? - advice on rights to support and direct payments.
• WebAware - Parent Empowerment Network list server.
• Research Forum - Information and support during pregnancy (findings from a NCT survey)
• Publications - “Mother Knows Best: parents with learning difficulties and their children” (Book review)

Issue 36 - October 2001

• Your letters - comment from visually impaired parent
• New team member - welcome to Disabled Parent Support Worker
• I felt I was being blamed: improving support to parents with learning difficulties - introduction to feature on parenting with a learning difficulty.
• Mary's, Sally's and Jackie's story - three parents with learning difficulties share their experiences.
• Barriers to justice facing parents with learning difficulties - summary of a briefing paper presented at a Department of Health seminar June 2000.
• Parents with learning disabilities: work ongoing at the Department of Health
• Briefing for lawyers: supporting disabled adults in their parenting role - overview of new project being undertaken by Family Rights Group.
• Supporting Parents with learning difficulties - summary of paper 'Achieving Inclusion Through Networks of Support' based on work of the Circles Network.
• Equipment: a new changing mat - The Rabbits Mat.
• Access to schools: lessons to be learnt - personal experience
• Getting involved in your child's education - summary of relevant aspects of the law and tips for disabled parents.
• More than getting through the gate - disabled parents' involvement in their children's school education in New South Wales, Australia (Research report)
• Deafhood conference - report of seminar on Deaf Parenting: Gaps in Services at conference organised by The Royal Association for Deaf People.

Issue 37 - January 2002

• Disabled Parent Support Worker report - overview of first four months in post
• Back to basics: mothers with back conditions talk about parenting - personal experiences and practical strategies
• Obstetric Anaesthetists Association - overview of aims and activities
• Parenting with a disability - report of a workshop for Occupational Therapists
• Perspectives on family life - three parents share their parenting experiences
• Publications: Positive and negative attitudes - experience of a dad with MS and review of book "My Dad's got MS", Moving Forward- Sterilisation and Reproductive Health of Women and Girls with Disabilities - book review

Issue 38 - April 2002

• Your letters - helping in schools to improve acceptance
• National Centre for Disabled Parents celebrates with an open afternoon - report on open afternoon with messages of support.
• Square peg in a round hole? Challenging isolation and barriers - blind woman's experiences of pregnancy, antenatal care, labour, practical strategies for baby care, challenging professional scrutiny, and researching barriers to parenthood.
• Childcare equipment: parents share their comments and experiences -
  • Babies and Back problems: Personal experience of early months and practical strategies and equipment including indoor hoist.
  • Highchair with wheels: experience from a mother with thalidomide.
  • Rabbitts mat review: review of this changing mat by a mum who is visually impaired.
• Research Forum - Supporting disabled adults in their parenting role: a "findings" paper reprinted with permission of the JRF - findings from research into Social Services policies and protocols for providing services to disabled parents.
• Calling disabled parents in the UK: can you help? Disabled Parents Network Handbook Project - call for information.
• Information point for disabled parents - Kettering General Hospital new advice service.
• CHANGE Parenting Project to support parents with learning difficulties - update on a project to produce an accessible pack on parenting and parent network.
• The Sandcastle Project to recruit Deaf foster carers - initiative in Sandwell, West Midlands and Barnardo's.
• VIPAR - Visually impaired parents form a new action group - report on a new action group started in Manchester.
• Publications:
  • More than getting through the gate - the involvement of parents who have a disability in their children's school education in NSW.
  • Pregnancy and Childbirth - publication by British Institute of Learning Disabilities.
  • New Beginnings: How Will They Grow and Adults….Ready or Not! - published by Positive Parenting in print, Braille and audiotape format. Review of audiotape version.
• BBC Documentary - parents wanted!

Issue 39 - July 2002.

• Your letters - use of Income Support infant milk formula tokens for ready mix formula by a visually impaired mum and Department of Health comment.
• Celebrating the lives and rights of disabled parents - a report of the 2^nd International Conference on Parents with Disabilities and their Families in California.
• Where have all the PA's gone? - parents experience of difficulties recruiting personal assistant.
• Parent Support Project: demonstrating the value of assistive technology - report of a project in Idaho, USA.
• Evaluation of Childcare equipment - update on research guides from Ricability.
• Pip Squeakers - information about squeaking baby shoes.
• Disability culture in children's literature - proposals are invited for papers.
• Disabled parents: good practice for mainstream parent support projects and organisations - report, good practice checklist and useful contacts.
• Deaf Parents: gaps in services video launch - report on new video and launch.
• Disabled parents personal development course - evaluation of a pilot project in Northamptonshire, UK.
• Publications:
  • The strengths and needs of black families in which young people have caring responsibilities - brief note on report.

Issue 40 - October 2002.

• Your letter - usefulness of tax credits
• A roller coaster ride: questions but no answers - experiences of a mother from Canada with spinal cord injury, pregnancy, birth, early weeks, frustrations at little information and surviving post-partum depression.
• Of sound mind: impossible expectations - experiences of a mother in Canada with a mental illness, issues for parents - competency and credibility, motherhood and mental illness, side effects and medication.
• Equipment: Baby and Child International Fair - report of visit to UK nursery equipment trade fair and latest new equipment and developments.
• Parenting skills courses - note about telephone parenting course.
• Disabled mother and activist wins national award - disabled mother, activist and author wins major US award.
• DPPi readership survey - results from our latest survey of readers.
• A training module for occupational therapy students - UK review of the Through the looking Glass (USA) training module and relevance to the UK context, raising issues of "gaps" in training, the need for research and evidence and suggestions for a way forward.
• The maternity needs of disabled women - specialist midwife/disability advisor updates on progress and learning from work in Canada.
• Health care for women with disabilities in British Columbia - developments in health care for women with disabilities, Canada.
• Research Forum -
  • Deaf parents' access to services - difficulties accessing services leading to disenfranchisement from key concepts of parental partnership and support, lack of understanding of Deaf parental issues leading to inappropriate assessment/intervention by professionals and recommendations for the future.
  • Understanding Deaf parents with hearing children - Abstract review: issues and experiences of parents and suggestions for professionals and parents.
• Extra costs for disabled parents - news of research and parents' views wanted.

Issue 41 - Winter 2002/3

• Viewpoint - choosing the right school.
• Parents Experience: Achieving my dream - a disabled parent from Uzbekistan tells her story.
• Good Practice: Working together for change - a visually impaired parent comments on her experience with maternity services. Also 10 years of progress: highlights from the journal archives reflecting events making a difference to disabled parents lives.
• Resources: Review of new Ricability guide - bottles, warmers and sterilises.
• Research: Sharing good practice - seminars on supporting disabled parents and calling disabled researchers.

Issue 42 - Spring 2003

• Viewpoint: Helping children with homework.
• Parents Experience: Parenting teenagers: growing up and moving on.
• Good Practice: Tailor-made maternity services - a case study from the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham, UK.
• Resources: Review of Ricability guide- baby carriers. Also round-up of new resources.
• Research: Disabled parents talking together, report of a participatory research project with the Sunderland Support for Parents with Disabilities group.

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Issue 43 Summer 2003

• Viewpoint: When legal help is needed
• Parents experience: The challenges of lone parenting - three parents share their story plus news of a proposed study by Gingerbread looking at issues for lone disabled parents.
• Good practice: Consultation with disabled parents- recommendations for good practice from consultation report by Disabled Parents Network.
• Resources: Reviews of two new books - Parenting and disability by R.Olsen and H.Clarke (2003) and Children of disabled parents by T.Newman (2003)
• Research: Disabled mothers in German- results of a survey of their support needs

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Issue 44- Autumn 2003

• Viewpoint: Having a Second Child
• Parents experience: "Challenging the System" - Parenting, living & working with osteoporosis
• Good practice: Spinal Outreach Team in Australia describe their Parent/professional partnership
• Resources: Reviews of The Right Support launch and Joseph Rowntree Foundation Task Force Report
• Research: Disabled Parents Examining Research Assumptions & Campaigning for Better Maternity Services
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