Haiku poems – a form of therapy? An invitation to contribute.

From the Editor, Peter Limbrick.

This sort of writing means being alone in a quiet place and digging down deep, never sure what is going to come up. This is true of writing haiku. There has to be much exploration of feelings in order to be able to express them in just seventeen syllables. It might appeal to you, it might not.

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Talking sleep

Handsel Trust

The Handsel Trust Sleep Initiative comes from an awareness that many families who have a disabled baby, child, teenager or adult member suffer disturbed sleep to the detriment of everyone in the family.

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Good practice in providing services for disabled children from black and other minority ethnic communities

Justin Simon

This article summarises the findings from research that I undertook for the Council for Disabled Children, in a post which received short-term funding by the then Department for Education and Skills. The full guide, Diversity Matters, can be accessed online...

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People with learning disabilities can be professionals too

John Tattersall

John Tattersall gets two powerful arguments into this short article. The first is that working people who have learning difficulties should not suffer a 'glass ceiling' that keeps them in boring factory jobs. The second is that people with learning difficulties, like John himself, have a right to love and sexual relationships.