Affirmations – motivational or not?
Talking to my 86 year old mother-in-law this week, we were talking about aspirations of the new generation and how things of course had changed since her day. Or had they? She clearly remembers her teacher’s final words to her which were written in an autograph book that she has kept all these years. The [...]
What can we do about health services that fail people with learning disabilities?
As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, many of our hospitals and health care services really aren’t geared up to address people with physical disabilities or sensory impairments. However, recent research suggests that the group who really lose out when it comes to the health care most people take for granted is people with learning disabilities. [...]
Disability hate crime – does it even exist?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission are launching an inquiry into disability hate crimes. And not before time. Every working day, on average, at least one person appears in court charged with a crime against a disabled person. Nearly half of these involve violence. A disability hate crime is a criminal offense motivated by hatred [...]
Public Services we take for granted
This blog was inspired both by a blog written by a fellow disability activist, Crimson Crip (http://crimsoncrip.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/i-demand-the-right-to-a-fked-up-lif/) and by recent personal experiences. It’s a bit of a national pastime to complain about public services, but there are some that we just simply take for granted, aren’t there? For an issue completely unrelated to my disability, [...]
Guestblog: All about Aspergers
I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about Asperger’s Syndrome recently (I’m going to call it AS from now on, for brevity). Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger‘s_Syndrome for more details, if you’re not familiar with the term. Image by Lloyd Budd via Flickr AS used to be a rare condition, but – in line with other autistic [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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