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Saba Salman: fulfilling lives need a focus on early years

Opinion

Right now, you can guarantee that most of us are planning a summer holiday. Students, meanwhile, are celebrating the end of exams and anticipating the next stage of life – work, training or education. 

Disabled parents and risk of harm

Law

The risks of harm to a child may not be enough to remove them from the family home, even when the parents’ disabilities mean they cannot prevent this, report Belinda Schwehr and Emman Kaur

IQ tests: fascinating and pernicious

Arts

IQ testing has had long-reaching effects, determining who is fit for what and who truly belongs in society. Its influence over our lives and our ambivalent attitudes are captured in an installation

Misfit team shine in feelgood film

Arts

A few twists and tensions in this tale of a grumpy man forced to coach a team of players with learning disabilities

Work is the priority

Welfare rights

The health and disability white paper, issued out alongside the spring budget, brings in major changes to benefits and support for disabled people to find employment, says Charlie Callanan

Learning for adult life

Features

If young people are to be prepared to be adults, the special school inspection scheme needs to change and education plans should reflect individual preferences, says Suzanne Gale

Children with profound disabilities make decisions, and group compassion therapy aids mental health

Research

Adults need to know how to help children with profound and multiple disabilities to make decisions about their future, and group therapy with compassion has promising results, says Juliet Diener

Mary O’Hara: contrast lays bare the values of two governments

Opinion

While disabled people in the UK are being hit by cuts and austerity, a presidential commitment, backed by hard cash, has been made to their US counterparts

Imbecile or just bizarre?

History

Did a jury agree that reckless behaviour, including rapidly marrying a courtesan and impersonating police, showed a wealthy man was of unsound mind or an English eccentric? Susanna Shapland reports

Ian Goldsworthy: how the road divides on the journey to adulthood

Opinion

My son reaches 18 this summer. While other young people move on, his options are more limited, and his coming of age will upend the support that he and the rest of our family rely on

In brief

In brief

Volunteer idea criticised, good and bad press and carers are in court. Saba Salman reports

Spotting the soft signs

Features

Signs of illness can be difficult to identify, as can getting services to listen. Andrew Bright describes projects tackling these

Struggling to live in a baffling world

Books

Un-typical: How the World isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All do About it

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Katie Price: ‘I will show disability should be accepted in everything’

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