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August 2007
Opening doors
August 2007
Workers with Down's Syndrome still face huge obstacles to a fulfilling and rewarding career. Matt Keating asks what more can be done to change employee's attitudes.
The Guardian, Saturday August 18th 2007
http://money.guardian.co.uk/discrimination/story/0,,2151103,00.html
Evolutionary regression back to 1866
August 2007
Every now and again something comes along which is so bonkers and so unhinged that it unmoors itself from all cultural anchoring points . . . . Down's Syndrome . . . .
Ben Goldacre, Guardian Unlimited, Saturday August 18th 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/18/1
'He couldn't say no'
August 2007
Targetted because of his vulnerability, could Raymond Atherton's death have been averted? Helen Carter reports.
The Guardian, Wednesday 15th August 2007
http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialcare/story/0,,2148450,00.html
'It's not a disease it is a way of life'
August 2007
Today an event run by and for autistic people kicks off in Somerset, the latest act of a burgeoning autism rights movement. Ermine Saner reports on the campaign to celebrate difference, rather than cure it.
The Guardian, Tuesday August 7th 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2142946,00.html
'I'm carrying a burden that's helping noone'
August 2007
I've been keeping a secret from my husband - my daughter made me promise not to tell him that his grandson is autistic. But he see's the boy's behavioural problems and blames them on how he's been raised.
The Guardian, Thursday August 2nd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2139680,00.html
