A Drake's Progress

“Whatever you do, don’t turn on your windscreen wipers. He’ll snap them off if he sees them move,” I warned my friend Jo.  The monkey...

A Shakespearian drama has been playing out at our house today. The heroine is an obsessive teenage girl with Prader-Willi Syndrome, w...

“I don’t care! I love it!” A 6ft 2in, built-for-comfort-and-not-for-speed  heterosexual man,  dancing around the kitchen waving a woo...

My daughter isn’t autistic, but then again, she is. When disability, learning difficulties, and special schools are part of your everyd...

You can’t win if you fight a disability head on. It’s like being in a scrum with a front row that’s bigger, heavier, and uglier than yo...

Fifteen years I managed. Fifteen years of kids before I had to deal with it. It was understandable with the big one, lucky with the little f...

It’s been a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world over the last few weeks.  No, I haven’t met anyone in a bar down in old Soho, or drunk any...