My name is Sara Jane Gorman.
I am a Learning Disability Awareness trainer and I used to be a Group -
Advocacy worker for Our Shout supported by Royal Wolverhampton Mencap. I am an
experienced consultant in the field of learning disability and I have given
presentations to professionals locally and regionally. I have given my training
to Health students at the University of Wolverhampton, School of Nursing and
the Health care professions at New cross hospital Wolverhampton.
I started off writing when
I was stopping at my Grandmother's house in Wolverhampton in 1993. I was
recovering from Cancer of the throat. I was watching the news Trevor McDonald
told the world about the Council homes closing down, which worried me a lot. I
felt so strong about the topic; I started thinking about Charles Dickens
writing about orphans and people worse off than myself. I stated with my life
story and stories, I have had a few reports published in the odd newsletters
and a poem published in each of 11 books. The problem was that the publishers
Poetry Now! Weren't paying me I was spending a lot of money on their books. I
haven't had any support since to find a publisher for my work. I plan has
always to raise half of what earn of my writing for charity but it hasn't
happened. I mean this help animals as well as human beings.
I am a keen writer, in 2008
I wrote and Co - produced a play to highlight the difficulties people with
learning disabilities have accessing employment.
March 2009, I went a Script
and Screen course to better my writing. Now hopefully this course will pay off
for me writing this book. Just before Christmas 2009, I helped Mencap set up a
Disabled Writer's group. December 2010, I helped out with an art project at
Penn hall special school by helping the children creative their own Superhero.
For a very short time I had
my own little business, which was handy, a business. It was called Access All
Areas Now! I shared with someone else with a learning disability, we both
Learning Disability Awareness trainers. We started off been Supported by Mencap
then Employment pathways. In the end there was very little money due to the
cutbacks to support us to keep the business going. In that time we only
achieved a great deal of work our Pilot scheme and only earned £80.00. We
couldn't earn a great anyway due to our benefits that we are on.
This book isn't just writer
about me but for readers who have learning disabilities, families, carers,
friends, lovers, professionals and etc. This book isn't only about Autism and
learning disability but it's also about my life story, which is all linked
together to help and educate people on learning disability benefit cuts and
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The purpose of this book is
to train and educate society to treat people with LD and Mental problems equal
to other people. To learn how balance support with independants.
This book is about the
rights of speaking for people with LD and Mp problems.
Today’s session is about
the benefit cuts, which seems to be the most common problem people with
disabilities and health problems seem to be going through to.
Stress is a big certain in everyone’s’
lives with it one way or the other but not everything we all worry about is all
the same. The main things we all have in common are worrying affronting bills,
rent, feed ourselves and etc. All those things can cause Anxiety and depression
on its own without having Anxiety and depression already. There isn't anything
worse than not having enough money to pay for the important things that need to
be paid for. There’s isn't anything worse than not having enough money pay for
what you owe.
What hope to achieve in
this session is to make you aware of how hard it is for people with
disabilities and health problems to cope if they have their benefits stopped. A
good many people have already died because they have either worried about
affronting to pay to feed themselves and things or about owing money they can’t
affront.
Many have been forced into
situations they can't manage for example force into work they can't do without
support. Atos is one of the main services that have been blamed for signing
people fit for work when they have not been. No one is saying that people with
disabilities and health problems can’t work but there are limits of what we can
do and a lot of support is needed if we are in the kind of work we can’t
manage.
For example where your work could come into it is,
that you may have to write proof to say that this person is not fit work at
least while they are waiting for their appeal to come through, give reasons how
and why the stress is affecting the patient’s health.
It could be possible that the patient’s gp hasn't been keeping a full eye on the patient’s but then hard to say because gps aren’t
as trained as much as hospital doctors and nurse are. There are most people
with disabilities and health problems who don’t feel they have good relationship
with their gp, which could be down to a lack of communication and
understanding. There could be many reasons behind many situations.
If the patients turns up at the hospital very
stressed, it’s very likely they have not been happy the help elsewhere. If it’s
to a point where they not feeding themselves, bills aren't getting paid to a point they have been asked by the council to leave their home, then that is a
very stressful situation. This can bring the person down to be thinking suicide
thoughts, where they may feel life is not worth living. It’s likely that they
may turn up as they start to feel as if life is rock bottom to try and stop themselves
taking their own lives or you could be nursing someone as a in patient who has
taken an over dose. Sadly it’s more than likely because if they have been
needing counselling so they could manage their lives, there hasn't been the
money paid for it, mainly when the person’s benefits have been cut.
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