Row over pupil's autism T-shirt
An autistic schoolboy was told he could not wear a T-shirt because its design was politically incorrect, his parents have said.
20 May 2007
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Alzheimer's 'diet link' analysed
A study is being launched to investigate possible links between diet and Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at the Alzheimer's Society will look at the effects of fruit juice, red wine and oily fish on the incidence of mental illness.
20 May 2007
Parents to sue after son choked
The parents of a disabled man are to sue the owners of a care home where he choked to death on a pickled onion. Martin Hardy, who was 27 and from Clay Cross in Derbyshire, died in February at the Leonard Cheshire Home in Retford, Nottinghamshire.
20 May 2007
Legal threat over disability plan
A Cornish council could be taken to court because it has not yet complied with some of the new disability discrimination laws.
20 May 2007
Lens technology aids dyslexics
Parents whose children have a learning disability will grasp at anything they feel will help their child, and many have spent hundreds of pounds kitting their children out with coloured lens spectacles. They look a bit odd, but children and teachers report dramatic changes in learning ability and concentration.
20 May 2007
Charities back Remploy closures
Trade unions say they are furious that six leading charities have backed plans to close dozens of factories which provide jobs for disabled people. Remploy, which has 5,000 disabled staff at 83 plants in the UK, says it has to cut costs.
20 May 2007