International Guide ‘Are you worried about your child?’ in many languages. PDFs free to download for parents and professionals

International Guide ‘Are you worried about your child?’ in many languages. PDFs free to download for parents and professionals

Peter Limbrick writes:

An international group has written this Guide in the form of letters to parents and professionals  to introduce key experiences faced by many families and to highlight their needs.

  It offers antidotes to excessive stress and strain in children and families. T

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UK: Helping only one in eight disabled people who want to work is not good enough. It leaves seven out of eight without help.

UK: Helping only one in eight disabled people who want to work is not good enough. It leaves seven out of eight without help.

ERSA (Employment Related Services Association) says:

 

‘Young jobseekers with disabilities and health conditions need tailored, localised support to move towards and into work.

'The size of the new Work and Health Programme means only one in eight disabled people who want to work will have spec

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"These six F-words won't fill up your swear jar: What do the F-words mean to youth with impairments?" Video from CP-NET

What do the "F-words" - Function, Family, Fitness, Fun, Friends and Future - mean to young people with CP and other disabilities? 

CP-NET is proud to present a brand new video based on the "F-words" concept.

This video was created in close partnership with Ontario youth with disabilities, with

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Karren Visser, photographer

Karren Visser, photographer

Karren writes: My entire life I have looked through a lens – thick glasses as a child and contacts lenses from the age of fourteen.

An extremely myopic world in its often two-dimensional form has shaped my way of being, how I focus on my surroundings, which until the age of five I was unable to see

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