• 03 May 2020

    New paediatric ataxia centre

    In December last year, Ataxia UK opened their first Paediatric Ataxia Centre, in Sheffield, with the intention to provide the best possible outpatient care to children and families, including diagnosis, treatment including advanced neuro-imaging and genetic testing of ataxias. Ataxia is often not recognised initially by GP’s, since it...

  • 20 November 2019

    The Life of Rileys

    The Riley family from Hull are just like millions of families across the UK – there’s, Dad James, Mum Lucy ten-year-old Thomas and a new baby to keep them all on their toes. However, the family do face some extra challenges, as two years ago Thomas was diagnosed with...

  • 20 November 2019

    The care they deserve

    When Dad Earldon takes sons Theo and LeBron to Acorns in Walsall, he says they feel at ease straight away.  “They feel welcome and they feel safe and those are the main things you want for your children.” His sons both have a chromosome disorder which means their lives...

  • 20 November 2019

    Nurturing Ambitions

    With the stark reality that deaf people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as hearing people, the National Deaf Children’s Society is launching a new campaign next year to expand deaf children’s aspirations and increase their career options. The careers campaign is being created with the...