Learning Disabilities Awareness Week - 2025

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16 June 2025

June 16 th to June 22nd is national Learning Disabilities Awareness Week. Hosted by Mencap, the theme this year is, “Do you see me?”.

This year’s campaign asks all of us to look beyond assumptions and labels and to recognise people with learning disabilities, including young people, as individuals with skills, ambition and voices that matter.

Learning Disability Week is not only a time to raise awareness but also a moment to celebrate the incredible achievements of children and young people with SEND who are making a real impact in their communities every day.

Children and young people with SEND are capable of amazing things – and they deserve the same opportunities as everyone else to thrive, dream big, and make their mark on the world.

Click here to see and hear some inspiring stories from children and young people with SEND*.

If you would like to get involved with Learning Disability Week you can:

Talk about and celebrate the amazing things that people with a learning disability are doing in your community.
Spread awareness of Learning Disability Week.
Download and share our Learning Disability Week resources (see below).
Campaign with Mencap to challenge the barriers that people with a learning disability face.
Donate to Mencap to help us continue to campaign for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.

For more on all of this, and to download the information pack, click here and see how you can help.

*SEND - Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

Note: The source for most of the information above comes from the homepages of Mencap, and ‘Kids: disabled children say we can’. Links to both websites are supplied in the text.

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