{"id":10218,"date":"2025-07-25T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:00:09","slug":"lee-ridley-in-erin-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/lee-ridley-in-erin-book","title":{"rendered":"Lee Ridley writes in new edition of inspirational Erin book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Erin_1000.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the book alongside smiling images of Lee Clare and Erin.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Erin_1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Erin_1000-250x131.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Erin_1000-700x368.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Erin_1000-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Erin_1000-120x63.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;\"><em>Lee Ridley image credit: www.steveullathorne.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is so nice to see a representation of people with communication difficulties in books such as this one,\u201d writes comedian Lee Ridley, the Lost Voice Guy, in his foreword to the second edition of Clare Latham\u2019s Book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbpublishing.co.uk\/product-page\/erin-and-the-mouse\"><em>Erin and the Mouse<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erin is an amazing young woman with severe cerebral palsy who\u2019s had a special helping hand to maximise her communication, gaming, education and quality of life. Her journey has inspired the book <em>Erin and the Mouse<\/em>, written and illustrated by SpecialEffect Ambassador Clare Latham, a speech and language therapist who\u2019s been a vital part of building Erin\u2019s voice for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Clare recounting the fascinating story of Erin&#8217;s journey in the short video below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QtJXhQAT9AA \" frameborder=\"0\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019d like to say a huge thank you to Clare, who will kindly continue to gift her share of royalties from the book to help the work of SpecialEffect.<\/p>\n<p>The second edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbpublishing.co.uk\/product-page\/erin-and-the-mouse\"><em>Erin and the Mouse<\/em> is available from GB Publishing Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Ridley image credit: www.steveullathorne.com \u201cIt is so nice to see a representation of people with communication difficulties in books such as this one,\u201d writes comedian Lee Ridley, the Lost Voice Guy, in his foreword to the second edition of Clare Latham\u2019s Book Erin and the Mouse. Erin is an amazing young woman with severe&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/lee-ridley-in-erin-book\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lee Ridley writes in new edition of inspirational Erin book - SpecialEffect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/lee-ridley-in-erin-book\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lee Ridley writes in new edition of inspirational Erin book - SpecialEffect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lee Ridley image credit: www.steveullathorne.com \u201cIt is so nice to see a representation of people with communication difficulties in books such as this one,\u201d writes comedian Lee Ridley, the Lost Voice Guy, in his foreword to the second edition of Clare Latham\u2019s Book Erin and the Mouse. 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