Hi I'm the mother to a 17 year old daughter with ASD and dyspraxia. I also have dyspraxia and am sure I have ASD but have never got tested. I'm trying to help her with life skills and am trying to ...
Discussion in Parents, carers and disabled parents - 9 Jun 2021
Full article: People with dyslexia have skills that we need, says GCHQ (The Guardian) Apprentices on GCHQ’s scheme are four times more likely to have dyslexia than those on other organisations’ ...
Discussion in Employment and careers - 16 May 2021
As part of Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month we thought we would pick your brains for your best number knowledge! Take this YouTube maths quiz Press play on the video below and be guided ...
Discussion in Coffee lounge - 16 Apr 2021
Hello I was diagnosed with stage 3 osteoarthritis in my hip yesterday. I currently work in a factory and really struggling. There are no light duties available and only been there 4 month. I want ...
Discussion in Employment and careers - 7 Sep 2021
Hi there, I hope you don't mind me posting on here. I am a first year Occupational Therapy student and we have been given the opportunity to help generate ideas for a rehabilitation garden at a spinal ...
Discussion in Events, research and opportunities - 3 Mar 2015
I had a meeting with my sons school on monday and they gave me a rather large kick up the bottom, re my sons lack of independence skills, over the years bit by bit I have been doing everything for ...
Discussion in Parents and carers - 19 Dec 2012
I would like to advise you that I am a disabled person using a wheelchair to assist me to move around my areas and I would like to volunteer immediately as I desperately and feeling boredom and ...
Discussion in Disabled people - 8 Jul 2021
My son Harry was diagnosed with CP at 12 months and has made slow progression towards his milestones. He is now 15 months and has just started kind of walking 3 steps between me and my wife though you ...
Discussion in Cerebral Palsy - 3 May 2011
Hi All, I am trying to set up a political party with disability being at the very core of policies (at least a fifth of all UK citizens are disabled - myself included, yet we don't have a loud ...
Discussion in Events, research and opportunities - 12 Apr 2018
My daughter is 13 and she has moderate learning difficulties. She had microcephaly all her development has been delayed. She goes to mainstream secondary school. Academically she is performimg very ...
Discussion in Parents and carers - 21 Jul 2014