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
I couldn’t say the word ‘blind’
In the final year of her art degree, Julie Coakley lost her sight. It was the worst fate that could befall an artist
‘I half-hoped that I might miscarry’
When Annie Rey was growing up, she had a terror of disability. Then her son was diagnosed with Down's syndrome, and it seemed her worst fears had come true
A tale of two mothers
Five months after Julia Hollander's daughter Imogen was born with severe cerebral palsy, she found herself at breaking point. But her painful decision to hand over her child to a foster carer led to the creation of an 'extraordinary extended family'