Disabled people should accept the "badge of disability" in order to increase their profile as consumers and help drive down the extra costs they face, according to a new report.
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded nearly £880,000 to a three-year project that will uncover disabled people's history, through examination of eight unique buildings across England.
Independent inquiry into extra costs for disabled people Launched in July 2014, The Extra Costs Commission has spent the last year exploring the extra costs faced by disabled people and their families.
My name is Rebecca. I have paranoid schizophrenia. I am married. I have a home. And I have never been a danger to anyone but myself.
Psychosis. What sort of images come into your mind when you think about that word? My guess is that you didn't immediately think of a new mum with a tiny baby. Postpartum Psychosis happened to me, and happens to around 1400 new mums every year in the UK. When my first baby was just ten days old I needed to be admitted to psychiatric hospital. I had become very high and energetic after her birth, and by day ten I believed that the end of the world was coming.
A few years ago I had a mild heart attack, but because of the inaccessible information I was given by the doctors I didn't even know that I had until over a year later. For Learning Disability Week, I'm sharing my story about why I want hospitals to have more accessible information for people with a learning disability. My name is Leroy Binns, and I work in the Campaigns team at Mencap. Fifty-three years ago my mum was told by the doctors that she should not expect her son to live past 10 years old. But what do doctors know, I'm still here!
