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This meeting was taken place at the Jenny Lee Centre in Wolverhampton, on Monday 25th January 2010 at 10.30am.

The Purpose of the meeting.

We were all chatting to Paddie Quick who is the Library manager of the Special Needs library. It is plan that on Wednesday 28th April 2010, me and Jess will be holding a training session for Paddie's staff. Now the library training is done, which became a session. Paddie and his staff felt as if they had learned a lot in the terms of accessible information. Understanding people and the world around you is a hard thing when you have learning disabilities. One of the staff they has a learning disability. They were all a nice crowd one or two knew me when I worked myself at Warstones library many yrs ago. I was thinking about doing a talk or something on my experiences of when I worked at the library.

Staff and managers in the libraries are finding it very hard to understand people with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health problems. Even though myself have only got mild Learning Disabilities and Mental problems, it's still very hard for us to be understood and understand people but it's not as bad for us now as it was in the past. We have not forgotten the hard times we had with communication so we can help staff and managers understand people who find it hard to make themselves understood, this happens to us too.

The Special Needs library delivers things like books, DVDS and etc to people's homes. These people who access the Special Needs library tend to have Learning Disabilities and Mental Health problems of some kind. Most of these people need special aids to help them access information in an easy way. This will help them to hear, listen, understand and read in an easy way.

Many of those people go through near enough what myself and Jess go through ourselves or we may have had a history of some of those things, depression, Anxiety, behavior problems, easy confused and etc. Once people understand what to except from these people may be there will be less lack of communication and attitudes may get better.