United States seems to work faster than Britain with supporting learning disability because United State is a bigger country than Britain. The thing that isn't helping us now is the cutbacks. We try to better the support then there's not enough money to support learning disability. The wrong thing the government doing is talking money off people who need it most. The government spends the money on the wrong things. This can take away people's choice, control and rights a over their own lives.
This is where Learning Disability Awareness training comes into helping professions learn to understand learning disability in all areas of life.
For example of all things; there are some people with LD in work but not many and not many people have jobs that interest them. Having something is better than having nothing but even better is people having the jobs that interests them. In this credit crunch today anyone is better have a job at all when there's at least over 200million may be a lot more or less unemployed people.
Getting along with people is a hard thing to do when you have LD anyway mainly when you have Autism because of a lack of communication and understanding. To not enjoy the job is bad but to not get along with anyone in the work placement is even worse. In the eyes of many employers people with LD are a Health and Safety Hazard, we can't do a job good enough and quick enough for them, we can't get buses until 9.30am because of our disabled passes or we cost them money to claim back, we can only work part time because of our benefits but we can only earn so much money on top of our benefits so that gives them less money to pay out to us. Never the less we still seem like hard work for many of them to employ. This is where money is needed to support people so the government need to be careful what they are spending the money on. There has been talk about direct and indirect payments, whether that is set for those in work I don't know. How the idea I heard it should work is for people to earn enough money to pay for their services as well as enough to live on, I may be wrong.
