Social care recipients to control their personal budgets
Government to announce expansion of scheme from November, giving patients total autonomy over payments
Sniffing device allows paralysed woman to communicate
The woman used the revolutionary device, which is controlled by sniffing, to write a letter to her children
The truth about recovering from a brain injury
Life after a brain injury teaches you a lot about yourself. But mainly it teaches you about the grind of illness and recovery
Little Britain: what is life like as a small person?
Ricky Gervais's latest project is a sitcom that focuses on the daily life of a person of restricted growth. But what is it really like to be small?
Has residential respite care had its day?
The MS Society is about to decide whether to close all its respite care homes and offer more personalised support to its users. The outcome could have repercussions for other disability charities
Autism: A healing, not a cure
Rupert Isaacson believes riding has transformed his autistic son. Now he wants others to benefit from his experience. But is it too good to be true?
Mediation moves beyond the bitterness
A neutral discussion of her situation helps a stressed manager find a viable alternative to an industrial tribunal.
The human cost of screening for Down’s
Tom Shakespeare: We must provide better information about Down's syndrome to help inform the traumatic decisions behind the statistics
We don’t have to talk about my disability
I have no legs, but it's other people's predictable reactions that get me down
‘If someone smiles, all I can do is look the other way, embarrassed that I can’t return the gesture’
Sarabjit Parmar describes living with muscular dystrophy and how she can do anything she wants, except smile