It seems to me that one of the most disabling aspects of disability is cost. The extra money that you are required to throw at life just to buy your way in is sometimes so much that actually leading a normal life isn’t a choice, it’s something you have to avoid to make sure your
Most people are lucky enough to find that freedom is not something that they need to be given, it is just something that we all, unknowingly, take for granted, only realising what a luxury it is if one day it is taken away. However trapped we might sometimes feel by our responsibilities, it is not
Today a room full of strangers will sit down and make a decision that will either give my eldest child permission to have the same opportunities as other children his age, or condemn us to face another year of tears, frustration and desperation. As other children have returned to school with varying amounts of enthusiasm,
Most of us take our independence for granted. Every day we are free to make decisions and act on them. If we are thirsty we make ourselves a drink, if we need the toilet we go searching for one, if we are bored by something we are free to walk away and if a
As I’ve just about recovered from the stress of trying to do a half decent job of putting together a video for Undiagnosed Children’s Day (representing over 2000 SWAN UK members, no pressure!), and because pizza hut assured me that they could feed the children, I have finally found a small sliver of time to make