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Here are some suggested organisations that offer expert advice on special needs.

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Here are some suggested organisations that offer expert advice on special needs.

SN children

STRANGEST VILLAGE IN BRITAIN............SN families in a community

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RTKangaMummy · 16/06/2005 20:04

CHANNEL 4

9PM

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RTKangaMummy · 16/06/2005 22:21

Down's Syndrome

We meet the couple - Paul and Andrea - who had to fight for 10 years to get married. The only thing stopping them was they both had Down's Syndrome.

MENCAP
www.mencap.org.uk or call 0808 8081111

The charity MENCAP wants to raise awareness around the country of what it really means to have a learning disability, during Learning Disability Week from 20 to 26 June 2005.

The MENCAP?s SNAP exhibition is on at the V&A from 18 June til 1st August

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beansontoast · 16/06/2005 22:20

didnt see it but my neighbours in my old house fit that description.
was quite jealous of the womans attentive,tactile hubby!

RTKangaMummy · 16/06/2005 22:17

Did you see the couple on tv THIS MORNING with DS who had got married

Ands lived nearly completly independantly

DEFFO BRILL

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SleepyJess · 16/06/2005 22:14

Oh dear.. have you all gone off to slit your wrists??! Come back! Sorry for being depressing!!

SleepyJess · 16/06/2005 22:06

Yes I thought the guy with the camera was great too... loved his questions.. Maybe I was autistic in a previous life because my mind works fairly like that as well..! I just don't voice it!

SleepyJess · 16/06/2005 22:05

Sorry to be pessimistic.. but I keep worrying lately on and off about the far distant future.. and what will happen when we aren't around to look after Alex anymore.. Does anyone else have a worry like this? Watching this programme tonight made me think about it again..

I know someone who pays into a scheme to ensure her autistic son will be 'taken care of' but it's not just about money is it? (Can't afford to do it anyway...)

Jimjams · 16/06/2005 22:02

I likede it - thought lots of it was hilarious, but ended up in tears- loathe, hagte and detest thinking about the future. There's a Camphill community near us.

Thought the autistic guy with the camera was great (so random- love it), and liked Barry and Anthony. Liked them all to be honest even poor old Pamela.

Now I want to bea houseparent and bring ds1 up somewhere safe. I'd like that to be a possibility for him becuase it was loving andc safe, but I'm not sure he'll ever be capable of living that independently.

RTKangaMummy · 16/06/2005 22:01

Glad DANNY was ok cos worried he hadn't been happy

DEFFO BRILL

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SleepyJess · 16/06/2005 21:52

(PML @ Penny!! Alex takes one look at her, shuffles over to the nearest chair and starts doing is standing up and sitting down routine because he gathers that this is what she expects of him! Whereas he won't do it for me!! )

Re: Strangest Village.. I like Anthony.. and Nan is sweet!

Fio2 · 16/06/2005 21:46

she said to me, penny she does not like me, I dont know why, is it because i am black, i am scared it is because of my colour??! and I said dont be silly we have black friends she is used to black people and she said oh thank goodness i thought it was because I was black, you from out area and everything and i had to constantly reassure her we werent racists

SleepyJess · 16/06/2005 21:43

Actually I have the hump with Pamela too, SN or not!

(Fio.. yes Kamala is amusing isn't she! She has great confidence in Alex though.. so I approve of her! )

(Kamala is a mutual physio of our children so it turns out.. in case anyone is wondering!)

beansontoast · 16/06/2005 21:39

youre welcome
i am clearly refusing to acknowledge the last five years of sagging on a deep level!

Fio2 · 16/06/2005 21:38

hey SJ, will reply tommorrow but kamala is ours aswell, she comes out with some really funny things

Gwenick · 16/06/2005 21:37

beans on toast - if 25yrs ago was 1985 - then I must be 31

SleepyJess · 16/06/2005 21:36

This is interesting. Can't work out what I think yet. I like the guy who has the hump with Pamela..

beansontoast · 16/06/2005 21:35

i can see alot of positives ,but then may be thats just me.
25 yrs ago thats 1985..jsut about when ideas were changing ?
long stay hospitals still up and running,but more local provision i think.

Fio2 · 16/06/2005 21:30

bunch of strange bullies

RTKangaMummy · 16/06/2005 21:29

I think the positive is that the alternative would be a mental hospital wouldn't it

When this was set up wouldn't they have been instutudilized

or am I getting dates` wrong?

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beansontoast · 16/06/2005 21:28

does anyone know when this film was made?

Fio2 · 16/06/2005 21:28

ohhhhh

beansontoast · 16/06/2005 21:27

that told you!

RTKangaMummy · 16/06/2005 21:27

think it is BOTTON

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emily05 · 16/06/2005 21:27

Fio BottoN!!! with a n (I thought it was bottom as well!)

beansontoast · 16/06/2005 21:27

botton i think

tiredemma · 16/06/2005 21:26

botton fio.

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