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Disability campaigner tells of how society dehumanises her and her son
Lucy Burke and her son Danny
Berny Torre
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A DISABILITY campaigner has shared how society dehumanises her and her son.

Dr Lucy Burke told of how her son Danny was reduced to a “list of deficits” at the age of just three to secure support for an autism diagnosis. 

In a speech to the Red University event in Cambridge on Saturday, she said that her heart sank when filling in a disability living allowance form for him.

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