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Empowerment in Everyday Life: Learning Disability

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The book looks in detail at how we think about and interact with people with learning disabilities and emphasises the importance of the voice of those people being heard. The contributors believe that it is essential to build mechanisms of power at the policy and service levels on the basis of the choices, wishes, needs and desires of learning disabled people in their everyday lives, so that the rights, interests and entitlements of people with learning disabilities can be respected and protected and consequently their dignity and quality of life maximised as far as possible.
Section 1 Informal empowerment - friends, family and community: empowering and relationships, Michael Bayley; Families and empowerment, Marion Barnes; Community life and strategies of individual empowerment, Paul Ramcharan; Shouting the loudest - self advocacy, power and diversity, Jan Walmsley, Jackie Downer; Everything you ever wanted to know about Down's syndrome, but never bothered to ask, Anya Souza. Section 2 Formalising empowerment - the service sector: empowerment within services, Steve Dowson; Bridging the gap between consultation, participation and empowerment, Gordon Grant; User control and user outcomes within the service sector, Margaret Flynn et al; The general assumption of capacity (and expression that prove the rule), Gwyneth Roberts; Enforcing rights, Gywneth Roberts. Section 3 Empowerment at home and abroad - finding a way forward: State legislation and citizenship in Canada, Marcia Rioux, Michael bach; Linking research findings and government policy - the case of Australia, Judith Cockram et al; Conclusions - state, citizenship and rights - the contemporary scene in Britain and abroad, Paul Ramcharan et al.
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