Learning Disabilities Archives

Care, continuity and access: what clinicians told us about reasonable adjustments

When professionals talk about health inequalities, the conversation can easily become dominated by statistics, policy and targets. But what happens when you begin with the everyday experiences behind those numbers? That’s what we explored at the Doctors in Deprivation Training Day hosted by Shared Health Foundation, where we shared our ‘Jasper Pickles Climbs Everest’ lived […]

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Are We Being Unreasonable? Amplifying Learning Disability Voices in Health and Care

Uncategorized / Abigail

Everyone should be able to be listened to and understood, to receive information in a way that makes sense to them, and to be treated with respect. They should have a say in decisions about their own lives and have the opportunity to be meaningfully involved in research and service improvement that could affect them.

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My experience of writing Jasper Pickles Climbs Everest!

Hidden / Abigail

By Francesca Waite, Artist in Residence at Made By Mortals Made By Mortals’ Hidden audio story series challenges people to walk in someone else’s shoes and experience the world as they do. When first asked to write a new episode about the experience of an autistic person or a person with learning disabilities attending a

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