Tag Archives: Learning difficulties
The heartbreak of sending our disabled child to residential school
Lacking support, we have no choice but to send our daughter away for schooling, but stories of institutional abuse haunt me
The horror and revulsion of watching the abuse meted out to patients at the private hospital Winterbourne View was a far more visceral experience for me than for Panorama viewers last year who don’t have a family member with a learning disability. The pain was far deeper because I felt like I was watching my daughter’s future being played in front of me.
Emily is 15 now and her inner torment of the hormonal battle of adolescence, which screams out for her to detach, is coupled with her neurology of autism and learning disability that limits that detachment.
So she suffers her torment as best she can and attempts self-restraint because she’s a person of decency and inherent kindness. She’s just a teenager. How much easier for her if she could tell me to fuck off, but she can’t.
Kirklees disability care changes that no-one knew about –
axe falls without users and carers being consulted
- by Joanne Douglas, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
- Jun 1 2012
A FATHER has questioned Kirklees Council’s silence over a decision to axe funding for Mencap as a day care provider for people with disabilities.
David Mills Daniel says he and wife Jenny were not consulted before Kirklees Council transferred responsibility for the care of his son from Mencap to a new provider.
And he says it will cause unnecessary disruption for those who depend of the service – the people with disabilities themselves and their carers.
His son Edmund, 33, has Down’s Syndrome and severe learning difficulties. He has attended the Waverley Hall centre, Waverley Road, for five years.
Mum wins fight with Bournemouth Council over care for disabled son
Mum wins fight with Bournemouth Council over care for disabled son – and calls for resignations
11:00am Friday 25th May 2012 in News By Melanie Vass
A MUM who has spent 18 months fighting to retain her severely disabled son’s care package has forced Bournemouth council to back down.
Lorraine Zavadil, 53, took on the council after it originally tried to cut the budget for her son Tarik’s care package by almost 70 per cent.
This would have meant that 28-year-old Tarik, who has congenital cerebral palsy, epilepsy and profound learning disabilities, is registered blind and is unable to speak, would have been unable to keep his current carers, some of whom have worked with him for over 10 years.
