Hannahs featured in the press:
Should a 19-year-old be forced to live in a home for the elderly? It happened – and it wasn’t a million miles away from where you are reading this…
Great innovations are going on in deepest Devon which could make massive changes to the lives of disabled people – Martin Hesp has been to meet the remarkable woman who’s spearheading the changes.
There’s so much we don’t see as we blast around in our busy modern lives – the story we’ll reveal here is one of the most remarkable going on at present in the Westcountry and yet it begins, for the most part unseen, just a few yards north one of the Westcountry’s busiest main roads.
In a special campus adjacent to the A38 at Ivybridge a boy, who has barely moved a muscle in his entire life, is laughing as he rolls about on a trampoline. At the exact same time a woman 15 miles east, just off the same highway, is sitting in an office dreaming dreams which could comprehensively alter that child’s future for the better.
What follows is a complex story concerning a subject that used to be swept under the carpet, but which is now rapidly becoming mainstream…
We’re talking about disability – in the case of the boy on the trampoline who is undergoing a new and highly successful form of therapy, we’re referring to the kind of extreme physical and mental disabilities that most of us find hard to imagine.
They call it profound disability – and here is the big shocking headline fact that is hauling this subject out from under the carpet where it’s been swept for so many years and putting it right up there high on the national agenda…
Read the full article here: http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/19-year-old-forced-live-home-elderly-happened/story-15265445-detail/story.html
