Category Archives: learning difficulties

Disabled people take part in football tournament in Edmonton

August 3, 2014   Carers, disability, Featured Article, learning difficulties

People with learning disabilities held their own special Olympic tournament

9:20am Sunday 3rd August 2014 in News  By Anna Slater, Reporter

 Disabled people take part in football tournament

People with learning disabilities held their own special Olympic tournament as part of a scheme to get them involved in sport.

One-to-One Enfield held a football match at the Southbury Leisure Centre, in Southbury Road, Enfield, in association with Special Olympics Great Britain.

Part of the Unified Sports initiative, it enables people of all ages with learning disabilities to practice and play together on the same teams as people of all ages.

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Anger as users and carers ‘left out’ of planning for NHS learning disability scheme

July 16, 2014   Carers, Featured Article, learning difficulties

Activists and academics raise questions over NHS England project

By on July 16, 2014 in Adults

Learning disability activists and academics have accused NHS England of failing to involve people with experience of services and their families in the development of a new group tasked with cutting the use of inappropriate hospital placements.

Yesterday NHS England announced that it had appointed Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of charity leaders network ACEVO, to head a group dedicated to ‘co-commissioning’ solutions to cut inappropriate placements. The group will report its findings in October.

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Accessibility should be part of everyday arts practice

June 26, 2014   autism, Carers, deaf/blind, disability, Featured Article, learning difficulties
The English National Ballet’s My First Coppélia makes use of symbol resources, which supports the inclusion of people with a communication difficulties. Photograph: ENB

For many children and young people, particularly those with learning difficulties, attending a theatre performance can be a confusing and stressful experience. Sara Ryan from the University of Warwick has described the experience of many parents taking their children into such public places as being “contingent, unsatisfactory and incomplete”.

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