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Working internationally to share information, help build knowledge and support teamwork around babies, children and young people who are disabled, marginalised or vulnerable

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Lead article - When parents are in denial

Shirley Young

Parents, extended family, friends and professionals use a variety of coping mechanisms in their lives with disabled babies and children. One of the most helpful, but seemingly least understood and most maligned, is denial. It is essential that parents are supported to adopt coping mechanisms or strategies which are healthiest for them and their child.

Lead article - When parents are in denial

Shirley Young

Parents, extended family, friends and professionals use a variety of coping mechanisms in their lives with disabled babies and children. One of the most helpful, but seemingly least understood and most maligned, is denial. It is essential that parents are supported to adopt coping mechanisms or strategies which are healthiest for them and their child.

Lead article - When parents are in denial

Shirley Young

Parents, extended family, friends and professionals use a variety of coping mechanisms in their lives with disabled babies and children. One of the most helpful, but seemingly least understood and most maligned, is denial. It is essential that parents are supported to adopt coping mechanisms or strategies which are healthiest for them and their child.

Opinion

Andrew Sutton, Pensioner

Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote: The limits of my language mean the limits of my world, and every week on Radio 4’s Today programme John Humphrys determinedly challenges government ministers and other worthies to explain what their clichés and gobbledegook actually mean. For without real
meaning policies are unrealisable, and they and their perpetrators are just that little more
unaccountable. That goes for all of us.

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