Welcome to Parents Stories

I've added a new page, Focus on. I'm going to be interviewing people on different topics and posting this on the Focus on page. This month i'm interviewing a mother who has an Autistic son.

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.

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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

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

Last update: 30/5/10