Little Britain: what is life like as a small person?
Ricky Gervais's latest project is a sitcom that focuses on the daily life of a person of restricted growth. But what is it really like to be small?
Has residential respite care had its day?
The MS Society is about to decide whether to close all its respite care homes and offer more personalised support to its users. The outcome could have repercussions for other disability charities
Autism: A healing, not a cure
Rupert Isaacson believes riding has transformed his autistic son. Now he wants others to benefit from his experience. But is it too good to be true?
Mediation moves beyond the bitterness
A neutral discussion of her situation helps a stressed manager find a viable alternative to an industrial tribunal.
The human cost of screening for Down’s
Tom Shakespeare: We must provide better information about Down's syndrome to help inform the traumatic decisions behind the statistics
The best compensation? ‘We’re sorry’
Sue Blackmore: If my hand was deformed by negligence, like the Corby children, I would want an apology – we must make sorry easier to say
‘If someone smiles, all I can do is look the other way, embarrassed that I can’t return the gesture’
Sarabjit Parmar describes living with muscular dystrophy and how she can do anything she wants, except smile
‘Everyone has problems, don’t they?’
Young people share their very different accounts of the issues they face growing up, from gun crime to graduation, teenage pregnancy and homelessness
‘There’s no formula for survival’
Jo Baker-Watson can imagine how the Camerons must be feeling today: her daughter Megan, who had cerebral palsy and epilepsy, died eight years ago
‘Pain is all you know’
Lucy Glennon explains what it's like to have the rare skin condition epidermolysis bullosa