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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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Nicola Batty, a mother with Friedreich's ataxia from Manchester, UK, describes how her experience of parenthood has changed since her son Jack became a teenager.
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Alyson Buck, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at Anglia Ruskin University, Essex, UK, reviews Camberwell assessment of need for mothers: a needs-based assessment for pregnant women and mothers with severe mental illness by Louise Howard et al. 2008,...
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Kim Rutter, Marketing and Communications Manager at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), UK, describes research commissioned by SCIE into the experiences of parents with mental health problems and their children, and how families can best...
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This guide provides information to help teachers and support staff in education to work effectively with deaf parents and their children. From deaf awareness and the Disability Discrimination Act through to home-school communication and parents...
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Parenting without sight – what attorneys and social workers should know about blindness, published by Blind Parents Interest Group, National Federation of the Blind, US, 2010, is reviewed by Chris McMillan, a partially sighted mother, from Berk...
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Lorraine Smith, a disabled parent from the UK, talks about the challenges she is facing in getting appropriate provision for transport to school for her children.
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Louise Jensen, a mother of three from Northamptonshire, UK, who has experienced chronic pelvic girdle pain (PGP) for five years, talks about adjusting to life with a disability and how a change of attitude has helped her to live life to the full.
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We describe important changes for education and schools in the UK. We review new school guides for visually impaired and deaf parents and look at the new Disability Equality Duty, which is also summarised. We also introduce Kidz Aware, an innovative...
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Joanne Grenfell, Education Adviser at Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (ASBAH), UK, reviews Access all schools, a report on better ways for schools and disabled parents to work together to help children learn, published by Norfolk Disab...
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Lisa-Marie Taylor and her two daughters talk about their different viewpoints of disabled motherhood.
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