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Katina Wright, a mother with multiple sclerosis from Cornwall, UK, discusses her experience of parental guilt and the importance of celebrating and utilising the ‘can dos’.
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Jill Toocaram, Common Foundation Programme Leader, Pre Registration Nursing, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, reviews a software-based assessment tool for social workers, psychologists and other professionals working with parents with lea...
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Mohammed Rashid is a visually impaired father of three sighted children aged 10, 5 and 3. Here he talks to Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood Information Officer, Gill Lea-Wilson, about being a father and role model to his growing children.
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Lesley Rands, from Runcorn, Cheshire, UK, is registered blind. Here she describes her experience of postnatal depression, and the steps she had to take to regain her confidence in her parenting abilities after the birth of her third child.
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The following articles were written by three young people about their personal experiences of growing up in a family with a disabled parent. These articles first appeared in the August 2010 edition of forward magazine, published by the Spinal Injurie...
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Jackie Cairns, a visually impaired parent from Kirkcaldy, Scotland, talks to two other visually impaired mothers about their experiences of dealing with their children’s schools.
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Mohammed Rashid from Birmingham, UK, has been blind since birth and has a five-year-old son, Iftikhar, who is sighted. Mohammed talked to Shanta Everington about his experiences of fatherhood and other people’s attitudes to him as a blind paren...
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I'm feeling so much stress from working and looking after my children. I have spina bifida and I'm an amputee, my mood is so low! I really really don't want social service involved or my home adapted because I want my kids to have a *normal* upbringi...
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Lisa Goldstein has a digital hearing aid, a cochlear implant, and plenty of deaf-friendly communication equipment. She spends her days juggling life as a freelance journalist, wife, and mother of two in Pittsburgh, USA.
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Clinical Psychologist Karen Wright describes research she conducted in the UK, which examined children’s adjustment to a parent’s spinal cord injury, using responses from children and their parents.
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Rita S. Eggert, a visually impaired parent from New York, USA, writes about how her young son challenged the ignorance of a sighted mother. DPPI 12, 1995.
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Lynne Hester from Cambridge, UK, is visually impaired. Here she writes about her experience of coming through a relationship breakdown as a disabled parent.
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Hi, I'm Abi and I'm 26 years old. I have cerebral palsy which affects my mobility and balance. This is the story of my life as a young disabled parent with 2 children (one of whom is also secretly disabled. So, I became a mum at the age of 19 afte...
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