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Sport england figures show opportunities for people with a disability are only resuming gradually. life is about adapting and niall has one room in the loft for training, anotherfor art, and those pictures, they have become a business. niall sells prints of his pictures on his website in conjunction with the special olympics charity. he is now self—employed and in britain only 6% of adults with learning disability have paid jobs. he does a lot of research. you have always done that, havent you...

Hes lived there longer now that hes lived at home. you cannot take that turmoil away. 0njune 29, 2001, pam and roys son tony was detained under the mental health act. like many young people with autism in a learning disability, he did struggle to cope as he became an adult. i love you... i love you, too, tony. hes now lived in an atu, and assessment and treatment unit, for almost 21 years 100 miles from his family. the bbc has had to go to court to tell you to ny�*s story. his family of had to...

Onjune 29th, 2001, pam and roys son tony was detained under the mental health act. like many young people with autism and a learning disability, hed struggled to cope as he became an adult. i love you... i love you, too, tony. hes now lived in an atu — an assessment and treatment unit — for almost 21 years, 100 miles from his family. the bbc has had to go to court to tell you tonys story. his family have had to go to court to try and bring him back to brighton. one week runs into a month, a ...

10% of your home, whereas if your home is in the north, and it might only be worth 100,000, 200,000, then there is catastrophic care costs could mean that you lose your home, or you lose a really significant part of it. or you lose a really significant part of it— or you lose a really significant artofit. , ,, ., part of it. when people speak to our part of it. when people speak to your organisation _ part of it. when people speak to your organisation and _ part of it. when people speak to you...

GambleAware has appointed Baroness Hilary Armstrong, Marine Gibbs, Mubin Haq and Dr. Koravangattu Valsraj as trustees.

What is that saying to the dishwasher in the restaurant? where you are is not who you are. you continue to tell in this amazing country, say it to a person in a holding cell. i sat in a holding cell, and now ill be in charge of the entire police department. what does it say to a young person with a learning disability? i have dyslexia. did not get it properly identified until i was in college. now that third grade student who is dyslexic can look and say, wait a minute, this is not the end of th...

Children never reach proficiency in our department of education. 55% of the inmates at rikers island have a learning disability. we feed our crises. i want new yorkers to look at a city, four years later, where we have a dashboard system, where we monitor our city in real time, and agencies are aligned with one mission, not siloed, but one mission, to move new york city forward. >> one of your challenges is really getting new york city back into a pre-covid business and economic environment. how...

We are so divided right now. and were missing the beauty of our diversity. today we take off the intramural jersey and put on one jersey, team new york. >> that was eric add ops, who cnn projects will be the next mayor of new york city. he won a decisive victory last night in that heavily democratic metropolitan area. joining us now is the mayor-elect eric adams. congratulations to you, say. what does this victory tell you? >> it tells me that while others were attempting to be heard by new york...

Pediatricians can help families deal with mental health issues related to social isolation and changes in routine, screen time, and sleeping and eating patterns during the pandemic.

Smaller classrooms, what can we do to give the kids a chance to catch up? >> this is not an indictment of teachers. sadly virtual learning did not work for so many students. one in five have a learning disability, those children have difficulty learning under the best circumstances. virtual learning really was difficult. what can we do? 100 billion dollar was set aside for this type of covid learning loss remediation, lets hold our school boards accountable to how this is spent it is our younges...