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Emma Buckley-Robins, 22, attends sessions run by staff at the Telford Snowboarding and Ski Centre in Madeley. Her father Simon said she had the cognitive ability of a “two to three-year-old”, but that the ski sessions had given her more confidence.

A drama which has just dropped on Amazon Prime Video follows the escapades of a hitman showing signs of onset dementia. In Fox TV’s Memory of a Killer Patrick Dempsey plays neurosurgeon Dr. Shepard, also known as assassin Angelo Ledda but unbeknown to his family, who just think he is a photocopier salesman.

Controversy has erupted over the Baftas after the BBC initially failed to edit out a racial slur shouted by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome. The Guardian explores what vocal tics are, and how they should be understood.

An upcoming Peppa Pig episode in which George gets a hearing aid could help to “remove some stigma” around hearing loss, the head teacher of a prominent school for deaf children said. Paul Burrows, head teacher at the Royal School for the Deaf in Derby, said the story was “very important” in helping deaf children “not feel so different”.

Alton Towers will not allow some people with conditions like autism, ADHD and anxiety to use their disability queuing system this February half-term. They say the number of people requesting the pass has been increasing, adding that disabled visitors have said the system “simply isn’t working for them” and that “queue times for these guests have increased”.