Fledglings has created a sensory support pack to help families of children and individuals with autism attend church services ...

Double Discrimination is the latest book by Saba Salman, examining the overlooked ableism and racism experienced by people of ...

Autism, wandering and drowning have been described as the deadly triad that destroys lives. This article looks at efforts to ...

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is now providing sensory activity bags for patients with learning disabilities and autistic people who need to attend the emergency department. The project was the ...

A new report from leading autism charities in the UK sets out the case for systemic reform of the systems that diagnose and ...

The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) has launched a new inquiry into disabled people's access to flexible working, ...

The RIX Big Ideas course brings together social work students and people with lived experience of learning disabilities to ...

The Government should apply an emergency handbrake to slow the rise in welfare cash benefit claimants, focusing on conditions such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, a new report says.

Over 1.3 million children and young people with Developmental Language Disorder risk being overlooked in the Government’s SEND reforms, according to Speech and Language UK. In its new report, The ...

To mark National Supported Internship Day (NSID), young people with learning disabilities and/or autism participated this week in a nationwide campaign advocating for increased employment ...

A healthcare initiative that improves respiratory care for people with learning disabilities has achieved a 92% decrease in hospital bed days and a 76% decrease in respiratory-related hospital ...

A fifth of autistic children experience constipation, which is linked to significantly increased emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations for gastrointestinal symptoms, according to a ...