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A very special Learning Disability Nurse asks: Who Do You See?

Helen Laverty is one of those women you thank your lucky stars to have in your life.

She is a compassionate Learning Disability nurse, a dedicated professional lead in learning disability nursing at the University of Nottingham and facilitator of the largest LD nursing conference in the UK Positive Choices. More than that she is a powerful advocate for change and works hard to draw those with a…

World Down Syndrome Day 2014: Do we really need awareness days?

‘There’s an awareness day for everything nowadays’ the rather jaded GP muttered in my direction recently, in a tone that hinted ‘leave me out of  it please.’

‘It’s awareness day every day in our house’, wrote a Dad who saw little point in allocating just one day to a certain cause.

‘Awareness days do more harm than good, they highlight differences. There are deeper issues to fight for.’stated a…

Over the Christmas perisd, UKiP candidate Geoffery Clark published his personal manifesto which appeared to insult vitually every member in society. The part that stood out for us as a family was his call for "compusory termination for babies with Down Syndrome, spina bifida or other detectable syndromes."