Childhood disability is not a priority in health systems. A recently published article in the BMJ by Cieza and colleagues argues why this needs to change. Firstly, the number of children with disability is increasing. More children are surviving, but not all of them are thriving. The article explores trends in prevalence of a number […]

Researchers say they are one step closer to using a smartphone app to identify children with autism. A new study suggests that an app can screen toddlers for the developmental disability by assessing their eye gaze patterns while they watch specially designed videos on an iPhone or iPad. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes and […]

We have already been through a couple of false endings to the Covid-19 pandemic. But finally, there really are solid reasons to think that it may really be ending, or at least becoming a different, less dangerous and disruptive problem than it has been for the last year. This is good news for disabled people, as it […]