Learning Disability Awareness Week always gives me pause. Not because I need reminding — Jen has made sure of that for the last 44 years — but because it creates a moment in the calendar where the world asks us to stop, if only briefly, to ask some important questions. This year’s theme: Do you See me. Do you Hear … Read More
Learning Disability Leadership in Action
What happens when you believe in someone? Can people with learning disabilities take on leadership roles? DanceSyndrome’s experience over 17 years says yes — unequivocally — when the right conditions are in place. Peter Pamphlett’s journey is one of the clearest examples of what learning disability leadership looks like when it’s genuinely supported to grow. There is something we don’t … Read More
Dear Parent
If you don’t have a child with learning disabilities, please read on to understand more. This is our reality. If like me you do have an offspring with learning disabilities you’ll experience life very differently to the rest of society. Dear Parent, How are you doing today? If we haven’t met before I’m Jen’s mum, occasionally known as Sue. Today … Read More
Do you see me
For Learning Disability Awareness Week 2024 this question, “Do you see me?” posed by Mencap is so deep and so profound, whilst simultaneously distressing, disappointing, and painful that it even merits consideration. It is a sad travesty of the 21st century, an inditement of the way society has stood idly by as people who happen to be learning disabled or … Read More