Mencap supports children and young people with a learning disability, like Janelle’s son, three-year-old Charlie Butler. When he was born, Charlie was diagnosed with microcephaly, a rare neurological ...

NEW services designed to help the development of children with a learning disability have been launched. Mencap's Family Support Programme aims to improve outcomes for young people. The charity says ...

Back in 1958, the groundbreaking ‘Brooklands Experiment’, conducted by New Zealand psychologist Professor Jack Tizard in Reigate, UK, compared the progress of children with a learning disability ...

Eight out of ten children with a learning disability are bullied or scared to go out due to fear of being bullied, research out today by Mencap finds. The study, which launches a campaign on the issue ...

Below is an extract from the new book All About Us! The story of people with a learning disability and Mencap. The book is compiled by Mencap president Brian Rix. The text below is by Mencap chief ...

MEET Wonder Girl Isla Gilchrist who has defied the odds to learn how to walk. The four-year-old superhero was just 16 months old she was diagnosed with 2q22.1 microdeletion syndrome, a rare chromosome ...

Leeds Mencap has this week launched an urgent appeal to raise £20,000 to provide specialist play sessions for young children with learning disabilities. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to ...

A scheme offering cycling activities to children with special educational needs and disabilities has won more than £340,000 in National Lottery funding. Midland Mencap’s Parkride project, which draws ...

Parents and children protested outside West Berkshire Council's office in Market Street, Newbury, ahead of an executive committee meeting on Thursday. Proposed cuts to respite care services for ...