Not long ago, I got a Chirsty Brown's life story of Wolverhampton library, it's called ' My LEFT FOOT' I have read it, it's very good. He had Cerebral Palsy, he could pain, draw and write with his left foot. I also read about his disability made life hard for him. For example finding it hard to communicate with people, he found it very hard to talk. This made him feel very alone in the world. 'MY LEFT FOOT' was also a film. Daniel Day Lewis played Christie Brown, he won a award for it in 1989. To find out more about Christie Brown and ' MY LEFT FOOT' google it in.
If you have disabilities,is the famous people who have your disabilities and your talent? For example I have Epilepsy and I love writing stories and poetry. Charles Dickens had Epilepsy and he was also a Novelist writer, he wrote short stories and poetry too. Please email me on sarajgorman@googlemail.com if you wish to tell me about your disabilities and talent.
Agatha Christie had dyslexia just like me, she was a crime writer. I share Asperger Syndrome an my writing talent with Virgina Woof, Shakespeare, Goethe, Isacc Asimov, Emest Vincent Wright and Charles Dickens.
I share Dyspraxia and writing with Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Hans Christian Anderson and George Orwell.
What is Dyspraxia?
Dyspraxia can cause you to have bad co-cordation problems, motor skills problems, gripping and etc can be very hard for people like us.
Foe example gripping a pencil, knife, fork, feeding skills, fastening buttons, tieing shoe laces, cooking, cleaning teeth, apply cometrics, styling hair, opening jars, opening packets, locking and unlocking doors.
Body movements.
Poor timing, bad balance, falling over easy, tripping over one's feet, clumsly, knocking and banging into people
Dyspraxia is also a Mental as well as Psychical disability, which isn't much different to Dyslexia apart from both words aren't that much different to spell either. How strange? The only difference is that Dyslexia isn't a Psycisal disability really.
Not everyone who has the same disabilities finds the same things hard. Just expect anything off anybody and any disability. Some people's skills get better than they used to be but others don't. These disabilities can also affect some people's speech.
Saturday 28 August 2010
Friday 27 August 2010
It could have happened to you.
You need to think about how about if you needed extra support in everything you want, need and do. For example cooking, washing, dressing, reading, writing, cleaning, shopping and so the list goes on forever. ( How would you cope and feel?)
Everyone has different kinds of disabilities. Each disability can make peoples' lives hard in different ways. People can get more than one disability not everyone has the same ones.
Theses disabilities can happen before, during or after birth.
People with LD hate asking for help all the while as much as it much be very hard work for you to help us. Sadly one way or another we need your support whether we like it or not. Neither you or us are to blame for our disabilities, that's just how curl life can be. Let's not let life knock us back, let's get on with it.
We want you to stop to think about if you were us and we were you. ( How would you feel and cope?) The bottom text before answering the question I have just asked.
These are the things people with LD have to face.
Not been able to learn as quick as you.
Not been able to face too many things going on at once.
Easily get confused with too much jargon and information.
There's a limit of what we can do with, without support or and not at all.
On the good side we achieve things slowly.
Some of us can't read but the ones that can have problems with talking information and reading long words that we can jargon words.
Some people can't write but the ones who can have problems with spelling, grammar and etc.
We could have bad co-coronation problems like Dyspraxia.
Numbers for example solving problems.
Not been able to write essays and assignments on time for college or and school.
We may also need help in starting a topic, making sense of it and proof reading it.
On the bright side.
Most people with LD are creative. For example I didn't realize that I could write my life story and short stories until I was 23, even though I have had very limited dyslexia support. When I was 27 I started writing poetry, yet when I was in school I couldn't learn anything. 11 of my poems have been published one each in a book. which amazed me. I have written a Newsletters with support and plus report the Compton Hospice Newsletter where used do work experience.
There people with LD who are famous, here some of them. You could google Famous people with learning disabilities and see what comes up.If you see the names of the people I write down, try to find out what kind of disabilities they have got.
Cher actor/singer, Agatha Christie writer, Winston Churchill Prime Mister. Tom Cruise actor, Thomas Edison inventor, Albert Einstein Physicist/inventor, Whoopi Goldberg actess. Mike Gravel Former Senator, Brue Jenner O Olympic athlete, Magic Johnson basket ball player, Grey Lougannis Olympic driver, Linsley Wagner actess, Henry Winkler, actor.
Everyone has different kinds of disabilities. Each disability can make peoples' lives hard in different ways. People can get more than one disability not everyone has the same ones.
Theses disabilities can happen before, during or after birth.
People with LD hate asking for help all the while as much as it much be very hard work for you to help us. Sadly one way or another we need your support whether we like it or not. Neither you or us are to blame for our disabilities, that's just how curl life can be. Let's not let life knock us back, let's get on with it.
We want you to stop to think about if you were us and we were you. ( How would you feel and cope?) The bottom text before answering the question I have just asked.
These are the things people with LD have to face.
Not been able to learn as quick as you.
Not been able to face too many things going on at once.
Easily get confused with too much jargon and information.
There's a limit of what we can do with, without support or and not at all.
On the good side we achieve things slowly.
Some of us can't read but the ones that can have problems with talking information and reading long words that we can jargon words.
Some people can't write but the ones who can have problems with spelling, grammar and etc.
We could have bad co-coronation problems like Dyspraxia.
Numbers for example solving problems.
Not been able to write essays and assignments on time for college or and school.
We may also need help in starting a topic, making sense of it and proof reading it.
On the bright side.
Most people with LD are creative. For example I didn't realize that I could write my life story and short stories until I was 23, even though I have had very limited dyslexia support. When I was 27 I started writing poetry, yet when I was in school I couldn't learn anything. 11 of my poems have been published one each in a book. which amazed me. I have written a Newsletters with support and plus report the Compton Hospice Newsletter where used do work experience.
There people with LD who are famous, here some of them. You could google Famous people with learning disabilities and see what comes up.If you see the names of the people I write down, try to find out what kind of disabilities they have got.
Cher actor/singer, Agatha Christie writer, Winston Churchill Prime Mister. Tom Cruise actor, Thomas Edison inventor, Albert Einstein Physicist/inventor, Whoopi Goldberg actess. Mike Gravel Former Senator, Brue Jenner O Olympic athlete, Magic Johnson basket ball player, Grey Lougannis Olympic driver, Linsley Wagner actess, Henry Winkler, actor.
The big wide world.
It's hard enough going into adulthood as it is when you have to cope with the big wide world on your own. When you have learning disabilities it's even harder. One of the main things are, everyone wants to learn about what it's like to have friendships and relationships but we also want to be understood, which is a very hard thing for people with LD. This is where we want people without disabilities to learn how to understand us. Many people understand that most relationships and marriages fail but many people with LD aren't given a chance to try that. Many people with LD may lose their relationship because their partner has misunderstood them, it doesn't have to make a difference whether their partner has LD or not. Some aren't honest with people with LD, for example telling them that they can take their LD on board, love us,support us and look after us but give us courage to live our lives with a balance of been caring but not too over protective. I believe that everyone should have that in their partner whether they have LD or not.
Through the hard barriers we have had to face, this generation of people with LD want to make life easier for the next generation of people with LD by training and educating people without LD about LD.
Bad things can happen to anyone in friendships and relationships but life very can be very lonely if you have no one at all. People with LD are the people who are most likely to be lonely because we get misunderstood the most. Communication is a big thing for everyone not just people with LD but there are easy special aids people LD can used but due to lack of money not everyone can have access to them. No one is saying that people with LD are only ones who are left out. In other words classed as the odd one out. Everyone deserves someone whether it's your friends, a lover or both.
Take more time to learn how know and understand people with LD.Just think it could have been you, in other words put yourself in someone Else's shoes.
Try the easiest way of getting to know someone, which is well at least for anyway. Yes, ask people with LD, what is the easiest way of getting to know them.
For example ask them what their interests and hobbies are then support them to ask you the same question. In other words ask them to ask you the same question. This may help them because they may not know what to ask you.
Through the hard barriers we have had to face, this generation of people with LD want to make life easier for the next generation of people with LD by training and educating people without LD about LD.
Bad things can happen to anyone in friendships and relationships but life very can be very lonely if you have no one at all. People with LD are the people who are most likely to be lonely because we get misunderstood the most. Communication is a big thing for everyone not just people with LD but there are easy special aids people LD can used but due to lack of money not everyone can have access to them. No one is saying that people with LD are only ones who are left out. In other words classed as the odd one out. Everyone deserves someone whether it's your friends, a lover or both.
Take more time to learn how know and understand people with LD.Just think it could have been you, in other words put yourself in someone Else's shoes.
Try the easiest way of getting to know someone, which is well at least for anyway. Yes, ask people with LD, what is the easiest way of getting to know them.
For example ask them what their interests and hobbies are then support them to ask you the same question. In other words ask them to ask you the same question. This may help them because they may not know what to ask you.
Thursday 26 August 2010
Up to date work news
At the Access All Areas Now! has been very slow because we have been trying to fight for funding to build the business. Me, Jess and Andy are hoping to go on a Teaching and Management course. There will be a meeting soon to sought out what's happening. Work has been hard to get anyway due to the summer holiday but hopefully things will start picking up.
I one of many of people with learning disabilities have become MPs for the peoples' Parliament with the support of a Self - Advocacy group called Changing Our Lives who are MPs themselves.At the moment we are going through some leadership training.
During the summer my computer crashed but I still managed to do a bit of work on learning disability, friendship and relationships awareness. I have been writing a story called ' Action Speaks louder than Words'
It's about a woman with a learning disability named Jackie from Wolverhampton who goes speed dating at the Lighthouse chub building. A young man name Mark who doesn't have LD walks in, he gets told he needs to drink away from the restaurant part even though can still see the speeding dating going on. He liked the way different men were talking to different women. When the event finished at 9.00pm,Mark managed to give Jackie his phone number then walked to the bus stop. Jackey wasn't sure at first but she rang him before her speed dating results came through.
They had two dates, one on the phone and other at Jackie's house. They tried the Moon Under Water' but it was too packed out a Saturday night without any seats and they couldn't hear one another.
It turned out Mark promised Jackie the world, that he'd support her to move in with him, have his child, help her look after it and etc. As sooner as Jackie became pregnant he kicked her out of his house and decided he wanted women did have disabilities and who didn't need support, when Jackie had told him everything about her disabilities and the help she needs, he promised to give but didn't. Jackie lived with friends.
The baby was taken of her very quickly from social services and Mark. Jackie wasn't told what sex the baby was and where he or she was other than Mark putting he or she in and out of care. This led Jackie into very deep depression so badly that the friends she was living with Karen, Hana and the police saved her from taking her life at Beatles car park.
In the end she moved on, she did an English and creative at Bilston college, social services housed her in Bradmore and she found herself a new companion in life named Alex, what Alex was like is up to you readers to decide but he was a lot better than Mark.
I one of many of people with learning disabilities have become MPs for the peoples' Parliament with the support of a Self - Advocacy group called Changing Our Lives who are MPs themselves.At the moment we are going through some leadership training.
During the summer my computer crashed but I still managed to do a bit of work on learning disability, friendship and relationships awareness. I have been writing a story called ' Action Speaks louder than Words'
It's about a woman with a learning disability named Jackie from Wolverhampton who goes speed dating at the Lighthouse chub building. A young man name Mark who doesn't have LD walks in, he gets told he needs to drink away from the restaurant part even though can still see the speeding dating going on. He liked the way different men were talking to different women. When the event finished at 9.00pm,Mark managed to give Jackie his phone number then walked to the bus stop. Jackey wasn't sure at first but she rang him before her speed dating results came through.
They had two dates, one on the phone and other at Jackie's house. They tried the Moon Under Water' but it was too packed out a Saturday night without any seats and they couldn't hear one another.
It turned out Mark promised Jackie the world, that he'd support her to move in with him, have his child, help her look after it and etc. As sooner as Jackie became pregnant he kicked her out of his house and decided he wanted women did have disabilities and who didn't need support, when Jackie had told him everything about her disabilities and the help she needs, he promised to give but didn't. Jackie lived with friends.
The baby was taken of her very quickly from social services and Mark. Jackie wasn't told what sex the baby was and where he or she was other than Mark putting he or she in and out of care. This led Jackie into very deep depression so badly that the friends she was living with Karen, Hana and the police saved her from taking her life at Beatles car park.
In the end she moved on, she did an English and creative at Bilston college, social services housed her in Bradmore and she found herself a new companion in life named Alex, what Alex was like is up to you readers to decide but he was a lot better than Mark.
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