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 a daughter with Global Developmental Delay.

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:10/5/11