Welcome to Parents Stories

This site is for parents of children with any disability within Northern Ireland. It gives information on useful organisations, accessible days out and also includes a few parents stories. I am a parent of a child with Cerebral Palsy and I wanted to create a place where parents can share information about what they know.

It is intended to be an interactive site. I would love it if people contributed and wrote reviews on places they have been, posted their stories and passed on information they have found useful.

Here are some interesting facts about various disabilities and the role of carers

• By the time a disabled child has reached the age of 5, he/she will have seen an average of 33 professionals

• 84% of carers in the UK do no paid work

• There are 250,000 known carers in NI

• 200 babies are born every week with a learning disability in the UK

• About 1 in every 500 children born will have Cerebral Palsy

• There are approx 500,000 people in the UK with Autism/Autistic tendencies

• Bringing up a child with a disability costs 3 times as much as bringing up another child

• 1 child in 20 in the UK has a disability of some sort

• 3/4 of families with a disabled child live in an unsuitable home in the UK

• About 7,000 families in the UK care for more than 1 disabled child!

• If you care for a disabled child, you are more likely to be in a one parent family

Click here to download a copy of the site poster to put up in your local doctors, hospital or CDC. Anywhere really!

Last update: 19/5/08

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