The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
There was a recent report in The Lancet stating that 1 in 4 disabled children are the victims of abuse. This report was based on 20 years of data from 17 studies (from 1990 to 2010) and involving more than 18000 children.The authors of the report sadly added that the sitution is possibly even worse than their data shows.
“The results of this review prove that children with disabilities are disproportionately vulnerable to violence, and their needs have been neglected for far too long,” said Etienne Krug, director of the World Health Organization’s Department of Violence and Injury Prevention and Disability.
Founder, Co-Director at Special Needs Jungle
Founder of Special Needs Jungle. (She/Her) Parent of two young adults with autism. New grandma. Tania, who is autistic, is a leading SEND advisor, working with the Special Education Consortium, Ofsted, and Whole School SEND. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Royal Holloway, University of London Centre of Gene and Cell Therapy and an Editorial Board member of Springer Nature Gene Therapy journal.
Tania is an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. She also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media.
Tania is a rare disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.
Tania is an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. She also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media.
Tania is a rare disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.
Latest posts by Tania Tirraoro (see all)
- Dame Christine Lenehan: a career advocating for disabled children’s rights - September 27, 2023
- SEND Minister denies the Government is aiming to cut EHCPs by 20% with an emphatic, but unconvincing, explanation - September 22, 2023
- A new SEND minister NOW? Disabled children deserve better than to be a government testing ground for ambitious MPs - August 31, 2023
There are too precious girls living not far from me who have severe learning disabilities. In Vietnam, anyone with autism, severe mental disabilities or psychological problems is refferred to as crazy. I won’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve invited the girls to have coffee with me so I can protect them from their ignorant neighbours. I won’t stand and watch as two innocent girls get treated badly. It breaks my heart sometimes to see how nasty people can be.
Of course people try to bully me because I am tiny and have a visual impairment. Let’s just say that looks can be very deceiving…..