Learning Disability Week is taking place from June 20-26. The week-long awareness event is hosted by Mencap, a charity that wants the world to hear “what life is like if you have a learning disability ...

The aim of Learning Disability Week is to “smash stigmas and end discrimination, educate and raise awareness about learning disabilities,” and “fight and campaign for a fair society.” Ciara Lawrence, ...

As Learning Disability Awareness Week is marked this June, it prompts much-needed reflection on how society views learning, intelligence, and academic success. In a time when diversity and innovation ...

New learning disability awareness training is being rolled out to all public-facing NHS staff across Wales in memory of patient Paul Ridd who died after receiving poor care while in hospital. The ...

The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability and Autism programme can give nurses and other health and social care staff a better understanding of the needs of people with learning ...

Tackling the discrimination, stigma and crime faced by those with a learning disability is the aim of a campaign launched in Surrey. Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which provides ...

This week is Learning Disability Awareness Week. Throughout my childhood, I was struck so often by other people’s definitions of ‘normal’ and how they had to understand where my brother fit in. People ...

“Disability Awareness” has never felt more necessary right now — and at the same time pitifully inadequate. Take for example the disability community’s recurring negative reactions to recent Center ...