1. Jane Holmes: Feeling the pinch but setting Kitty free

There has been a lot of publicity about government cuts, particularly how they affect the vulnerable, which of course includes disabled children.

2. Jane Holmes: Powered wheelchair the key to freedom if you can drive it

If you have a child who can't walk, of course it's hard with all the lifting you have to do.

3. Jane Holmes: A stranger choice for respite care?

This week we return to the age-old subject of respite. Respite is something that families need, not something they want.

4. Jane Holmes: Welcome to the world of disability

I would like to take this opportunity to enlighten the world about parents of disabled children.

Yes, it is exhausting work from time to time.

5. When life depends on a plastic tube

My daughter is tube fed.  She has never eaten or drunk anything by mouth and never will.  Her swallow is unsafe and totally unco-ordinated. 

6. Don't abuse the little help disabled people get

Abuse of disabled parking bays hit the national news last week.  Abuse of a disabled bay at Asda in Lower Earley no less.  

7. I haven't stopped dancing

The thing that people always want to know is what happened to my daughter to make her so disabled.

8. When caring for carers can be done carelessly

On the radio last night, during a programme about disability, someone said that the world is divided between the disabled and the not-yet disabled.

9. Please help us build somewhere we can cry

Right here in Wokingham there are families whose children are so severely disabled that they often feel they can't leave the house.

10. A rubbish idea for carers

In the local news this week is a piece about the council's intention to reduce the amount of rubbish households are allowed to produce to 80 bags a year.