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Theatre review

28 September 2015

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

RIGHT FROM the start of The Misfit Analysis Cian Binchy, below, is teasing us, challenging our assumptions about what a person with autism is like. Arriving on stage...

Get a new media life!

01 November 2008

Learning Disability Practice

Communication

Do you use social networking websites? How good are you at sharing photos and videos electronically with friends, and can you tell your SMS from your email? Welcome...

‘On our own two feet’

26 September 2016

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

There were not many dance shows on offer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year, and I think Dancer is the only one performed by someone with a learning...

Theatre review

27 August 2014

Learning Disability Practice

Opinion

THIS REMARKABLE production is set in Rowans bowling hall in north London, and audience and cast are wearing shirts bearing a ‘No Barriers With Barriers’ bowling club...

Connecting conversations: Geraldine McCaughrean and Gerry Byrne

01 February 2009

Mental Health Practice

Resources

Storytelling seems to be hardwired into our collective psyche. From the oral traditions of Norse sagas and the histories handed down in Native American and...

I want to tell you a story…

09 June 2014

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

MENTAL HEALTH issues are penetrating mainstream literature to an unprecedented extent, with a book about a psychiatric hospital recently serialised on Radio 4’s Book...

Edinburgh Fringe brings suicide statistics to life

13 September 2016

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

It is a stark fact that men kill themselves at an alarming rate. In England and Wales, one man dies as a result of suicide every two hours, and according to the...

The divided self – poetry and mental distress

01 July 2009

Mental Health Practice

Performance review

POETRY IS a difficult medium to appreciate as a one-off. Many ultimately memorable poems reveal shades of meaning only after repeated readings and it can be hard to...

Edinburgh Fringe 2014

09 October 2014

Mental Health Practice

Opinion

SHOWS ABOUT mental health involved audiences in unusual ways that contributed to an understanding of the issues raised.

Employment: a mixed picture

01 May 2002

Mental Health Practice

News feature

Getting up and going to work. It is something most of us do everyday and when asked about ourselves, we would probably mention our jobs and what area we work in.