Undertaking my Masters of Human Rights I scrutinize the rights of children with a disability and how they are contextualized in our society.  Even though we have Acts and Conventions in place, we have little to uphold them. Instuitions, schools and community groups continue to turn children with additional needs away even though it

Hugo started school this year with only 3hrs a day of Learning Support Officer time; a one on one aid; to provide the adjusted learning curriculum that he needed and supervision that was required in the playground. It wasn’t acceptable. He wasn’t able to access what a typical child could. Despite praise from outside professionals

In the earlier years of Hugo’s existence, the pain and aguish his little face portrayed robbed me of my sleep and my happiness; his non-stop crying throughout the day and the night, the continuous sickness without avail. Then death’s door knocked at 6 months old, hospitalised with pneumonia. And on it went. Week after week. A

The constant battle of having my disabled son fully supported in the mainstream school system never ceases to amaze me. Granted just 3 hours per day of Learning Support, how on earth is my moderately Autistic and moderately Intellectually Impaired son who also has a General Anxiety Disorder meant to access his human right of going