Disability

Who’s a goodie two shoes? Is it care versus politics, versus the politically correct, or just boring?

Image: luigi diamanti / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Seeing a conversation on a local network actually got me annoyed enough to blog about it. It’s actually got nothing to do with the people who replied to the discussion, or even those who were involved in it as they don’t know any better, and kudos to the man giving more »

Image: digitalart / FreeDigitalPhotos.net You could be forgiven for thinking I’ve thrown in the towel and decided to be Miss Misery Guts this week. Looking back on it, it’s not going to be all plain sailing to fix, but hey, we’re all alive, and I can afford to put food on the table for my more »

Image: graur razvan ionut / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I’ve just finished watching the Panorama programme about Elder Care, where a woman tells her story of how her mother with Alzheimers was abused by the very people who should have cared for her. Suspicious about bruises that had appeared on her mother’s body, she recorded video footage from a more »

Image: farconville / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I’ve recently come into contact with a couple of local jobsworths that have the potential to have me banging my head on a brick wall for completely different reasons. To start with, I find it REALLY frustrating to see someone paying really good money for absolutely rubbish work. I saw a more »

Image: luigi diamanti / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Middler was due to go on a four night respite this week, but there was an emergency for the unit and he can’t now go until Tuesday. Believe me when I say that can’t come quickly enough for me this week. Yes, that is selfish – and I have learned more »

Image: renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net If you haven’t heard of the spartacus report by now, and you use social media, you would be a very odd person indeed. The report was initiated and created by a group of disabled activists who decided to do something about the plans that were being put through by our more »

Image: Arvind Balaraman / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Helping us to help ourselves. I am going to give a bit of a mish mash mix up here I suspect. A conversation on Twitter last week showed that parents of children who are not disabled find it hard to start-up a conversation with the parents of a child who might have more »

Saturday was a revelation. A group of parents run a special needs club at the weekends, with the support of a school and the grateful advice and help from the National Autistic Society. We borrow a school premises and open up to children with ANY type of disability up to the age of 14 in more »

What is in a label? If I had a £ for everyone who said that they didn’t want their child labelled, I’d be doing quite nicely by now thank you. I have to wonder why we have such an aversion to labels, or names, or public affirmation of issues. Many do accept the more »

Image: Clare Bloomfield / FreeDigitalPhotos.net We had a situation last week. I may be reading too much into it, but it really irritated me to the bone. On the way home from school, elder was very quiet and piped up that he had a letter than I had to sign for him to take more »

Direct Payments for Care of a Disabled Person – Worth it or not?

Some of you may not actually be aware of what direct payments are. Social services come out and assess a person with a disability or child to see what their care needs are. From that, a parent (or the person with a disability) can be offered a set amount of hours per week that they more »

Things I think ALL Parents should know about Foetal Alcohol & ADHD Children.

This is a cup of coffee and a biscuit type post. Have you ever wondered what behaviour characteristics are common to a lot of disabilities? Many problems, such as Foetal Alcohol and Attachment Disorder, Pervasive Development Disorders and Language Disorders which are common in Adoption have more pronounced issues along the same lines, but more »

Image: Naypong / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I am putting this post up as a result of something I saw on twitter yesterday. This IS my space, and I am not falling out with anyone because of it, but I’d like to set the record straight about some things and hopefully it gets taken in the right vein, more »

For Thursday 7th July 2011, we were offered our first overnight respite from middlers non stop antics. It was a blessing in disguise, however you describe it. This post may lose me readers. This post may also make someone else feel not so alone. Lets take a day in the life of Scottish Mum and her family. It’s more »

What did I learn from the conference in London for Cybermummy 2011? It isn’t a trick question, honestly. I learned that I am capable of doing more. This is not an ordinary blog post, I will save that for later. I need to get this out, and I need to begin talks. I am sorry more »

Abuse at Winterburn View, Castlebeck (Panorama) It Needs MORE Than Arrests

Anyone who knows me is going to know what I am going to say about this hospital. The abuse at Winterburn View, the Castlebeck Private Hospital has shaken me considerably. These abused people are CHILDREN. They are in big bodies, but they are CHILDREN. Picture your two, or three, or four year old being treated like that. more »

I have had much to do with this issue recently. I am aware of the effects, the guidance and the common sense. Having never been pregnant, I have no idea how I would have reacted to drinking alcohol if I was pregnant, but what I do know is, that it is worrying when someone who is 7 more »

After seeing a few tweets and posts surrounding ADHD and the stereotypical way they have been described, I feel compelled to “right” what I see as a wrong. ADHD is a condition that affects the brain. There is a chemical called dopamine in the brain. In ADHD children, that chemical is lacking or low. It more »