Employment

Back in 1999, there were a lot of employers sued for discriminating disability, sex and race.
People with disabilities feel more of a Health and Safety Hazard at home than work. A lot of us stuffer from Anxiety and depression, we need to keep our bodies and minds busy.I spent 13 yrs signing on, which made me very down in myself. Since I have been working 3yrs ago, helping others like myself, I can take anything that life throws at me. My work can at the right time for me just a little before my Nan died and as my last relationship was breaking up.Everyone has the rights to a life, you wouldn't like sitting at home staring at the wall all day long, why should people with disabilities and Health problems. I like to end the days knowing that I have made differences to people's lives.

If you read my report on Access All Area Now and Our Shout I have written about how I am willing to help people like myself to gain a career of their choice whether they want to be employed or Self employed. Baring in mind that Access All Areas Now! has only just started and it need time to build, we have a lot to learn ourselves just yet. We are just on our business plan at the moment.


People with learning disabilities are treated better than they used to be but we still have a long way to go. People's attitudes still need to get better towards people with disabilities. A lot of people with LD, such as myself didn't learn anything at school mostly due to lack of communication and understanding with teachers. A lot of us didn't leave school with qualifications, which made us feel useless.

A lot of us went to college after school, achieving qualifications, not getting job for years or not at all. No one gave us enough support to get work, which meant not giving us enough time or and not enough chances. Not many of us had paid work or we were on training schemes, which was very low pay. Most of us had to spend our time st airing at the four walls at home doing nothing. The people were lucky enough to do something were messed about place to place through discrimination in the work placements or and at college achieving qualifications but not knowing what our future was. We just had to enroll every September, which were mostly the same ones for eg; English and maths. Most people didn't find the course very interesting. Society didn't seem to think many of us were very clever. All we needed was the right support. Why have most of us been given the job all day long when we have been on placements?
This has made us feel like dog's bodies.

Support and attitudes needs to get better. Jobs need to be more interesting, we need to spend our days doing different jobs not the same. Those people like myself with dyslexia need more support. People with LD should train people without LD. We should be given the right support for the LD we have got. No one should be left out no matter what.

There's still too much information and too much jargon. The government or and managers should all staff what our rights so we don't get different information off different people.

There are a lot us with LD who are creative so we should create creative jobs. There still isn't enough people with LD with jobs at all but it's better than it was. Mencap works hard to battle with with government to see that people with LD get our rights. We believe a future for all people with LD when we see it.

People with high support needs need their benefits more than people with mild needs. The government should spend money on the people who need it most otherwise they are also costing themselves too much money. With the right support people with mild LD should get a wage like everyone else. With the right support people with LD accept good and bad in life like everyone. For eg; having to pay tax.

We should be given the right support to learn Health and Safety. We should be given the right support be healthily and safe in all areas of life, which includes the work placements.

Back 2008, Our Shout Self - Advocacy were talking about a Travel Buddy Social Enterprise. This is what Andy and myself from Our Shout read at the Learning Disability Employment play.

People with LD are being encouraged to access community facilities but this will be hard and too much money for those who don't travel independently.

Isolation is a feeling that most people with LD face in the evenings and weekends. There's very little help for these people to get out and about to see, they have never had the chance to achieve this without Families/carers. Many could travel independently with the right support.

A ' Travel Buddy' will help people with LD to travel on pubic transport to get to where they want to go. This will help build Self-stream and potentially lead them becoming independent travellers in the future.

To promote Health and Wellbeing of people with LD by increasing involvement in community based work and activities.

Intensively trained adults with LD to set up a City wide team of paid ' Travel Buddies.'

The proposed service will help encourage social inclusion, promote independence, and give paid work chances.

Many people with LD do not like traveling on ' Special buses to the Day Centres. To up date this report to 2010, we have found out the work we have been doing for the last year that prices have gone up on the Day centre buses. Now many a people with LD who go to these Day Centres could have learned with the right support to travel independently. These people often spend a long time on the transport while others get picked up.

Since 2008 myself and Jessica Bromley have started a business 'Access All Areas Now!' in December 2009. At the moment Access All Areas Now! is just a LD Awareness Training service, which trains all services around LD awareness. We also hope to create a service to support people with LD with all areas of life. We are not building our hopes up but never say never. It will be a long time if it ever does happen. We will work our hardest to see that the Travel Buddy service does happen.

Often people are travelling to Day Centres before going to college in the morning. This means people are taking two journeys instead of one.

Background.

In the past people such as myself from Our Shout Self Advocacy group haven't had any good luck in employment this why we wanted to work for ourselves. At the moment there's only myself and Jess. We hope all of Our Shout be with us but it's a case of more support and funding. One of our areas now we hope to achieve is employing people with LD and creating jobs for people with LD.

Transport has always been a big issue for many people with LD and it was highlighted that there was a need for a travel service to support people with LD to access the communities when people with LD need to and want to.

Aims

The Travel service will give proper paid jobs for people with LD with 1 to 1 support with who wants to use pubic transport to get around.

To help social inclusion people with LD help them to become confident and independent.

To give Wolverhampton a unique bus sevice that supports people with LD help given by people with LD. there are many egs; in other areas of the country where this is working well.

In 2008, Mencap put together a bid for some Eurpopean funding and are continuing to look for other funding chances in case we are successful.

Jess's boyfriend Andy Howell is working with myself and Jess at Access All Areas Now! but he isn't Self - Employed yet but he will soon will be.

Acessible information up date.

This is how most of us may understand information.

Ask people how they want their information written.

Don't talk too fast.

Slow down if you do talk too fast.

Explain things slowly.

Use Lateral language.

Meaning tone and body language.

Sign language for the death.

Brail for the blind.

Using gestures expression give visual cludes about what you are saying.

Lean Makaton signing.

Not everything is accessible to people's needs and wants.

Accessible information takes time but it is really important.

One size does not fit all.

The most important thing about making information accessible is the people that use it.

Does the person need LARGER PRINT?

Would photos, pictures or and symbols help the person understand information better?

Before taking pictures of building ask staff, managers or and etc first.

Would the person find it easier to access information by watching DVDs or CDs with may be a book to follow the information with the right support if needed?

Never think that every person understands information the same. The best person to ask is the people themselves.

There seems to be a lack of communication and understanding between people with learning disabilities and Service providers. Service providers don't always understand people with learning disabilities. Too much information is hard, people can use too much jargon and language that confuses us.

In the terms of everyday life we are seen as a Health and Safety Hazard to employers and even to the rest of society, with the right support, we should be able to work like other people. Most of us may well be a Health and Safety Hazard but we are also creative people. Most of us can't work fast enough for an employer, if we get the right support this could be balanced. Not all of us can use computers but we have different skills and abilities like all people. These are some of the mistakes most employers make.

We need better face to face contact with people around us.

Better communication.

We need to be more valued by people.

People should be more well mannered towards us, for eg; the tone of people's voices.

How people speak and what they say make them misunderstood like all people.

individualised service.

Think of how you can make information more clear for people with learning disabilities

Most people can't read but even most people who can read can find it hard to take information in.

Keep sentences, words short and as less words as you can.

Headings, titles and important things are better off written in bold size 22, which is bigger than the rest of the text. ( 14 to 20 the rest of the text.)

Some computers don't have as many tools to make information accessible so your writing may have to be written in capital letters and large print to suit most people's needs.

Making information accessible is about making it easier to read and understand.

There different ways to do accessible information for different people.

Using less words.

Making information easy to find.

Using photograph's

Using a "bud dying system," where people have someone to help them go through information with them or ask questions.


Comic San, Ariel or FS Mencap can be bought.

Don't use words that only specialist would understand or acronyms. This means shortening words to a few letters.

Some people want clear coloured with different ink on different coloured paper.

Font 14 - 20 text, headings centred, underlined, bold and size 18 -24.

Most pictures are hard to get hold of so bullet points or numbers may help most of us.

Useful websites that could help you make information accessible to people's needs and wants
WWW.plainenglish.co.uk www.mencap.org.uk www.officefordisability.gov.uk thesaurus.com dictionary.com. ( I know it's not always easy or possible but please try to make words as short as you can, thank you.)

Most people in Wolverhampton have told us that they find photographs easier to understand than pictures ans symbols, which should be your nouns people, places and objects.

Sent information out in at least four weeks before appointments and meeting so people can be ready in plenty of time. This will give people time to understand information and ask for help if they need to.

Think about using a symbol or statement at the end of your information so people can get help to understand the information, if they need it.

You can't always suit people's needs when you are typing information for them but you can support them to read or and understand the information you write but please do your best to make it as accessible as possible, thank you.


BEHALF OF OUR SELF-ADVOCACY GROUPS OUR SHOUT AND OUR TALK.

People with learning disabilities need more time to speak and to be listened to. People without disabilities won't learn their job if they don't listen to people with disabilities. If people with disabilities aren't listened to, then people without disabilities are in the wrong job. Most of us take longer to be understood than other people. People with disabilities are the experts.

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ARE ALL DIFFERENT TOO.

Except anything off people with disabilities like we except anything of you.
Just like all of you are, every person with a learning disability is a different person.
Every person with a disability has different disabilities.
Don't except people with the same disability or and same Mental Health problems to find the same things hard. We are all different as human beings whether we have disabilities or not. 3rd May 2010

UP DATE ON AUTISM.

The truth is I was never really diagnosed for my Autism.

Many people have asked me. How do I know if I have got Autism?

Bare in mind just over 40 years ago it was an unknown world.

May be I don't have Autism but over the years my family have watch films, read things and watched me cope with my disabilities.

I would like to get diagnosed for once and for all by a doctor whether they will do it after all those years or not I will just have accept that I will never find out for sure.

In those days, it was very hard for families, they still had to work long hours just like families always have done for non disabled children.

There weren't any benefit in those days.

My Mum was only 17 yrs old when she had me.

Nappies were Terry toweling, which she washed until I was five yrs old.

As a child I was fourteen mouths old until I could walked but I couldn't balance very good.

I found it hard to be interested in games with children but I very much made my own games up in my own little world.

I played and talked to my dolls and soft toys.

I never slept at night I just used to cry for hours until I cried myself to sleep. I felt scared of the noses outside on the streets for eg; barking dogs.

When stories were read to me I believed in them, I used to fear the big bad wolf jumping out of my wardrobe.

The family always said I was never very good at affection, which was a lack of eye contact.

In those days no one really knew what Autism was or any disability for that matter.

You just got on with live because you didn't know anything else.

Disabilities weren't known for sure but people always noticed when some people more problems than others but never sure what.

It was almost as if the world was mad at me people didn't understand me.

This made me feel guilty and hated by the world and society.

I used to feel mad with myself not understanding why I was like I was.

I never whether to blame myself for what I couldn't cope or people around me not understanding me. This caused a lack of communication and understanding.

It felt as if was very much disliked because I knew I couldn't seem to please anyone.

There again I am not saying that every fault I have boils down to my disability because each and every one of us has faults.

There are naughty children but back then children then we didn't get away with it.

I used to be on the go all night long but found it very hard to pay at tension in the day, like in school for example, that's why I left school having learned nothing at all.

The cause of having these problems could be the heavy medication I was on at the time and too much sugar and salt in my diet, which we knew very little about back then.

Health staff, families and carers should keep an eye on how the side - affects of medication is affecting people.

Everyone should work as a team to support people if and when they need it but at the same time don't over protect them.

Let people get on with things they can manage but support and teach them how to manage more, give them time to learn.

Tomorrow or another day is another day if it's a bad today.

Keep going until they get there, they will carry on if they want to learn.

If you give up they will.

They will be very upset if you give up on them.
Here's balance for you.

This caused me to be aggressive, kick, lash out, pinch, bit, hit and scream at any time i felt angry.

I believe the medication I was on at that time made me the human being I was.

Myself and my family have said that those tablets back then were far too strong for me.

I think I was on 300 to 500mgs 1 tablet three times a day.

They were also very dangerous tablets, which slowed my awareness down.

Even at the age of ten to twelve I couldn't be out doors on the streets alone, I had no road sense or any direction awareness and I was a danger to myself and people without meaning to be.

People thought I was a danger on purpose.

Without knowing I was going to change, I came off the age of 13, my fits stopped well for 20yrs but little did we know when I came off those tablets.

All of a sudden, slowly I started to be aware of what was going on around me.

My behavior problems started to calm down, I slept better, I started to learn better.
Learning to be safe getting out and about on my own.

This is why I think those tablets affected my life more so than my disabilities.

I became very angry if I couldn't communication.

Everyone seemed to know better than me.

It seemed as if the whole world was clever and I was useless.

One day I learned that I am just a very slow learner and I am not the only one with learning disabilities.


I suffered from bladder and bowl problems, no one understood why.

Even today my bladder is still the same.

I can't seem to make it to the toilet quick enough.

I was in nappies until age of five.

Now that I am lot older I have started Tena Lady,it helps a bit but not much.

People tend to think only because I can walk and talk, I don't have these problems.

We are still trying raise awareness of these things the don't see.

I have a very slight problem with my speech but not much.

When it came to the start of adulthood, I spent five years in a living in job at Camnant Mid Wales New town Powys looking after animals and I also passed a few exams.

I went on to college and I have been on my schemes over the years, plus signing on for 13 yrs.

Now I am helping out with Mencap and Employment Pathways is support me and two other people to have our business.

We are called Access All Areas Now! We are learning disability awareness training service we train services to understand and to be aware of what to except of learning disability.

We hope one day we will create a service to support people with disabilities in all areas of life.

Autism is a life time disability, there are all kinds of Autism.

No one knows what causes Autism but my Mum was neglected at the birth, they called it lack of Oxygen to my brain.

I had fit's, I have dyslexic and I could have Dyspraxia Developmental Co-ordition disorder.

I can't grip very well with my hands, not very good with motor skills riding a bike, driving a car, can't skip and things like that.

Autism is very common these days than it ever was before.

There are 1 in 100 people with Autism, it affect men more than woman I have heard.

Autism can be a communication and social problem, it's so easy to get misunderstood by people.

We can find it hard to understand the danger around us even though I am getting better than I was. b.i.r.d.org,uk or call to either support other children with Autism or may be you know some children with Autism.

If you have any comments you are welcome to email me on sarajgorman@googlemail.com or a send me a message on Facebook. WWW.autism.org.uk/

Learning Disability week Health 2010

LEARNING DISABILITY AND HEALTH AWARENESS TRAINING PACKAGE.
ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!
LEARNING DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING BY SARA GORMAN, JESSICA BROMLEY AND ANDY HOWELL ON LEARNING DISABILITY HEALTH WEEK 2010,
ON MONDAY 21ST JUNE 2010


Me and Jess will Introduce Andy Howell As our Volunteer on work experience until he get's Self employed. ANDY will be reading a bit about himself in his daft hand writing.

SARA'S INTRODUCTION

In 2008, I wrote a play on how hard it is for people with LD to access work.

In March 2009, I went on a script and screen course to better my writing.

Near to Christmas 2009, I helped Royal Mencap Wolverhampton set up a Disabled writer's group.

I have set up my own business called Access All Areas Now! which can help me raise awareness of learning disability issues.




JESSICA'S INTRODUCTION.

Hi, I am Jessica, I have a learning disability.

I like modelling. I have done 2 runaway shows in the region.

I have been in the Sunday Times as a style st.

In 2009, I traveled to Bulgaria to work with children and adults with Ld.



SARA TALKS ABOUT AIMS AND TARGETS.

To learn what learning disabilities.

To learn about clear information.


WE be raising awareness of health of learning disability.

We understand that not all Health staff in the world will be at our Training session so this Training pack is on my website for all people working in the health of learning disability.

However, if you do work in health, I would like you to send me an email to comment, give your views and tell me what you have learned if anything on this website. Thank you. sarajgorman@googlemail.com


Please tell me in an email what the word learning disability means to you.

DEFINITION

VALUING PEOPLE NOW! IS A NEW PLAN FOR LEARNING DISABILITY IN THE 21 CENTURY.

Valuing PEOPLE NOW! Say learning disability is.

Reduced ability to understand complex information, to learn more skills, to reduce ability to cope doing things without one's support with social functioning and which started before adulthood, with last effect development.

LEARNING DISABILITY.

Learning disability label is a useful purposes, but people with LD always come first.All people wear that label. A label that describes one part of a person but does not capture the whole person.

FACTS 1

LD is how the brain works.

There are many causes of LD but most happen before, during and after a baby is born.

LD can also happen in a injury, illness and may be through diseases.



FACTS 2

A child can be born with LD if certain genes are passed on by a parent.

Downs Syndrome.

Fragile x Syndrome.

Autism Spectrum.

FACTS 3

There are 1.5 million people living with LD in the UK.


Like all people we want different things in our lives but we have different levels of support needs that we need the right support for.

FACTS 4

Most people with LD are treated different to people without, which shouldn't be the case.

We don't have the same choices and control as the rest of society, this needs to get better.

You will come across choice and control in your work, which is the Person centre plan (PCP). You can learn about choice and control from Jill Coleman who is the project manager of a company called Macintyre. Please contract 07825 620339 jill.coleman@macintycharity.org


People with LD face discrimination every day, which is law.


FACTS 5

People with LD are 58 times likely to die under the age of 50 than people without.


80% of Health staff are not trained to treat People with LD.


COMMUNICATION 1

Health is one of all areas of life we raise awareness about. This is why we set up Access All Areas Now! There's a lack of communication and understanding between people with LD and Health staff.

Some if not most people with LD have problems communicating in all and different ways.

Gestures, communication aids and behaviours to let you know what's wrong.


COMMUNICATION 2

SOME WAYS PEOPLE CAN COMMUNICATE.

Using their face.

Making a noise.

Changing their behaviour.

USING speech, symbols and signs.


COMMUNICATION 3 IMPORTANT

MOST PEOPLE WITH LD AVOID HEALTH SERVICES DUE TO A LACK OF COMMUNICATION, UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT.


COMMUNICATION 4 IT'S IMPORTANT TO.

To speak clearly and slowly.

Listen to people with LD and the people who support them.

Find out how people communicate.

Use photo symbols.

CONSIDER THE MENTAL CAPACITY AND LEARNING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION ACT. THIS IS LAW !!!!!!!


HEALTH STAFF NEED TO FIND OUT AND LEARN ABOUT THE HEALTH ACTION PLAN.

IF YOU GET IT RIGHT FOR PEOPLE WITH LD, YOU WILL GET IT RIGHT FOR EVERYONE.

I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT YOU ARE WELCOME TO READ THIS WEBSITE IF YOU WANT TO. IF YOU WORK IN THE HEALTH PROFESSION, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU, IF YOU ARE READING MY HEALTH REPORTS. PLEASE EMAIL ME ON sarajgorman@googlemail.com. THANK YOU. PLEASE MAKE ANY COMMENTS VIEWS AND TELL ME WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED IF YOU HAVE. TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO ABOUT THE HEALTH OF LD.I HOPE YOU WILL LEARN A LOT ABOUT THE HEALTH OF LD ON MY HEALTH REPORTS ON MY WEBSITE. IS THE HEALTH OF LEARNING DISABILITY FIELD FOR? OR NOT? IF SO YOU HAVE A LOT OF HARD WORK TO DO AND LEARN AS WE ARE MORE VULNERABLE TO OUR HEALTH THAN PEOPLE WITHOUT LD ARE. JUST A REMINDER OF THIS WEBSITE sararevealed.blogspot.com/



'ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!'

NOW WE ARE ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!`

WE WANT TO TRAIN ALL PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES CAN DO GIVEN THE CHANCE LIKE EVERYONE.

FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CONTRACT SARA GORMAN/JESSICA BROMLEY 0777183653.

DAVE PIKE OUR WORK SUPPORTER WILL BE TAKING OUR CALLS AS WE HAVE NOT GOT ANY BUSINESS PHONES JUST YET.


Health has been chosen for learning disability because of the Death
Indifference report 2007.


Health is important but the health in people with LD and Health problems are twice as important.


This is because a lot of us with learning disabilities have got Health problems linked to our disabilities anyway so many of us need more support looking after our health. Health problems and LD come together it can be one or the other in some people.


Not all of us get support or some of us don't get enough of it.


On the other hand we need a balance between support and independent as much as people without learning disabilities.


If information is easy for us to read and understand then we may be able to read and understand it without help.


Some of us can't read so we may need more of pictures than writing that tells us what we need to understand.

In the case of health for eg; there might be a people with disabilities and Health who don't have support. Some medications may have dangerous side effects or people may over dose themselves by mistake if the information isn't clear enough for them for read and understand. PLEASE BE AWARE OF THAT!


He or she may not understand the GP'S handwriting they may need large print and pictures typed up on the computer.


There needs to be a clear diet and exercise plan for people with learning disabilities with easy words and pictures.


Diet isn't just about losing weight.

People with different disabilities and Health problems can only eat and drink certain drinks and foods due to the conditions, illnesses and etc we may have.


This can be very confusing for people with learning disabilities mainly when we need to lose weight and if we have Health problems as well so GPS need to type out accessible diet sheets to help people with disabilities eat and exercise more healthy.


If someone hasn't got any, not enough or even the right support it can be very hard for them to do what they are advised to do, this is why things need to be set out as easy as possible for us.


There needs to be more education in schools and colleges for young people and adults with and without learning disabilities to educate and train people with LD to cook and eat healthy food and exercise.


People with learning disabilities and Health problems have to cope with Stress too.


Stress is one of the worse killers today, there seems to be a lot of stress today for everyone over one thing or another.

Many people turn to things bad for their health due to stress for eg; smoking. It can be hard for a lot of people to accept things that they don't want to live with as it is. Bad news is bad enough as it is without it been confusing and stressful.


If we lose something or someone in our live we don't want to lose. Whether like it or not it happens. It's bad enough for people without LD but the stress can make people with Ld more ill. Another example is relationship break ups, family break ups and etc.


I am not saying that people without disabilities don't stuffer their problems but people with disabilities have our own stresses without anything on our minds, that's own learning disabilities and Health problems things on our minds on top of the problems all people have, can make life even harder to cope with.


We don't except any magic wands but we need more understanding and support to cope with our lives. Thank you.


Back in 1991, my favorite singer Freddie Mercury from Queen died of a Sexual disease called Aids.

I know he didn't have learning disabilities but there's still isn't enough awareness about Sexual diseases in people with learning disabilities.

I am sure Freddie would have liked people with LD and Health problems to get a lot of support for our Sexual Health as much as people without.

Whether we have LD or not we all have feelings.

Freddie was just as ill as people with Ld would be.

There again what people need to understand due to our life Health problems. Other illnesses everyone can have, people with LD can be twice as ill as people without LD. It could make us die quicker because of our LD and the Health problems we may have already.


There needs to be more education on Sexual health that's accessible in schools and colleges.

It can be hard enough teaching young people as it is why education on health is important but people with learning disabilities are slower learners so many of us may need more support to learn.

For eg; some people may not understand why we are advised to use condoms and may even have problems putting them on, mainly if we have problems with our hands.In my case with problems griping, without been personal I am lucky that I have had partners who knew how to put them on.

There still needs to be more education on choices, pregnancy, conception, support and etc.

In March 2009, Jade Goody died of Cervical cancer, this is just an example of many young people who have died of cancer.

I want to raise awareness of Cervical cancer.

We all know it's right to have Smears to get ourselves checked out.

Many women could be scared of having Swears if they have suffered rape and Sexual abuse at any time during our lives. This can have the same big affects on our lives as much females without LD.

May be counseling should be advised to females if they fear swears due to the bad experiences we may have had. Most of us may feel as if we can't go through smears so there needs be support for us to cope with our fears.

Information should be accessible for all females not just females with learning disabilities mainly when we have been through rape and Sexual abuse at any time during our lives, this can put a big affect on any female's life, body and mind. We understand males have suffered sexual abuse and rape as well, which we must raise awareness of these kind of things for males with and without LD.

There's still not enough awareness of people with learning disabilities who have cancer.

I had cancer of the throat at the age of 23, even though I was very lucky it didn't spread to any other part of my body but even though the treatment knocked me about I was lucky to get better. Here's a person LD who didn't better from cancer but could if Health staff looked after better. I don't think they looked after her at all.

Emma who was written about in the Death Indifference report in 2007 had cancer. She died because she died unnecessary because she didn't respond to the treatment the doctor was giving her, due the fact she found it hard to communicate. May be there could have been a chance that Emma's cancer could have been cured.

There's still a 50/50 chance that people can pull through cancer.

It seemed as if the doctors couldn't be bothered with Emma because of her learning disabilities. The doctors needed to try a lot harder to save Emma.

Access All Areas Now! will be playing a DVD of what we have been through with our Health and Health staff who should have looked after us more. This Play is done by a Self Advocacy group support by Mencap called Our Shout, which myself, Andy and Jess are apart of.

Myself, Jessica, ( Andy?) from Access All Areas Now! will be giving you a free training session on raising raising awareness of Learning Disability and Health.

NEWS ON ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW! and OUR SHOUT MENCAP.

This is an up date on Access All Areas Now! Due to the amount of work Jessica has got with Mencap it's more than likely I will running Access All Areas Now! with support but it may be possible that Our Shout may be linking to do some work with Access All Areas Now! We have had two meetings about it but we still need to talk about it more. As soon as we know for sure I will let you know on this website. sarajgorman@googlemail.com

ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!

Learning Disability Awareness Training

For more information please contract Sara Gorman on 07771836853 or the office number 01902-553372 until our phone lines are in. You will more than likely be getting my work supporter Dave Pyke taking my calls or email me but let Dave know as well.Same email address as on top of the page.

Purpose Of Access All Areas Now! is to create a service to support people with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health problems to access all Areas of life with the right support equal to people without Learning Disabilities and Mental Health Problems, I understand this is something that may or may not happen.I understand that to run a business I have to start off small. I mustn't build my hopes up:never say never. One never knows what's round the condor but at the moment Access All Areas Now! is a Learning Disability Awareness Training service. I train services who want Learning Disability Awareness training.

One of the hard areas of life to access is traveling, transport and getting around. This is because a lot of people need the right support to access everyday life equal to the rest of society. It's very important for people with disabilities and Mental Health problems to be independent just like everyone else.

Back in 2008, I wrote an Employment play for Learning Disability week based on the problems people with disabilities and Mental Health problems have accessing employment. Not long before that we spoke about setting Access All Areas Now! The Travel Buddy was one of the first things we spoke about and employment. Our plan is to support people around their chooses, employ them ourselves, find people places where they want to work or most people may want to be supported in Self - employed. With the right support for us to support people like ourselves, we should be a successful business. On the other hand I am not building my hopes up:never say never.

We hope to help people get to where they want and need to. We want to make a big difference to the lives of people with disabilities and Mental Health problems. Bring out the good to support people with disabilities and Mental Health problems to have equal lives to other people. To put the bad dark past behind us. Build people's confidences up.

To look out for the Health and Well Being for people with Learning Disabilities and Mental Health problems.

We want to see more people with learning disabilities and Health problems traveling on buses than mini buses!

ACCESS ALL AREAS NOW!

A LEARNING DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING SERVICE

WHO OFFERS TO TRAIN PEOPLE WITHOUT DISABILITIES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS WHO WORK IN SERVICES AROUND LEARNING DISABILITY AWARENESS TRAINING.



2010


OUR SHOUT NEWS.

There has been a lot of changes that has happen during 2010. Back in March Greg left Our Shout even he still works for Mencap on a Tuesday. I have found myself in a sense running things, which hasn't been easy with trying to run Access All Areas Now! I so much want to see that the members of the group get easy read minutes, which isn't easy, lack of money to printing access at home.

Changes to Our Shout Lucy Dunstan left Mencap at the end of October 2010, then Louise Smith took over as Empowerment supporter for Our Shout. We have also become very short on members, which we need to advertise for. We hope to talk more about the future of Our Shout after Christmas and New Year.

Life in the Partnership Board hasn't been easy for Our Shout in different ways for eg; the members having to wait a long time to have our say. Mid to late 2010 things started to move on a bit most of the members including myself with the support of Changing Lives in Tip ton, we became Learning Disability MPs of Wolverhampton.



VALUING PEOPLE NOW! Making it happen for all.

a three year plan for people with learning disabilities.
The plan is drive by views of people with learning disabilities, our families and carers.

Most people with learning disabilities are still turned away from society.
People with learning disabilities should have the same life chance as other people without learning disabilities.

If we are to have the same chances as other people in society and live full lives, public services should be better for us when we access them.

Health is one of the Key Priorities Valuing People Now.

Change needs to happen for all with learning disabilities, which includes people with more complex needs, those with minority ethnic communities, those with Autistic Spectrum conditions and those who have offended.

The plan sets out the Governments response to recommendations in the Independent Inquiry into access to Health Care, Health Care for All, published in 2008.

The Health Care for All report showed a hard-hitting message. It set out undeniable evidence that people with learning disabilities have greater need for Health Care more so than other people, yet we access care that need resulting in poorer health.

Neglect or abuse of disabled people is not acceptable and the Government is determined that lessons are learned to take action to better Health Care for people with learning disabilities.


MENCAP'S DEATH INDIFFERENCE REPORT.

Back in 2007, Mencap had heard that six young people with learning disabilities had died under the care of the NHS caused by neglect, this is Mencap wrote a report that year. This is one of the reasons why OUR SHOUT started doing Health plays of our own experiences Health Care in front of Health Care staff. WWW.mencap.org.uk

Introducing me and my learning disabilities.

I was born in Wolverhampton on Friday 24th October 1969 with mild Autism, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia and epilepsy.I have lived with disabilities for nearly forty-one years since I was born.

For the last three years I have been helping out with Mencap. Mencap is a charity all round UK, that support people with disabilities. Mencap also supports all different kinds of Self Advocacy groups who are groups of people with learning disabilities our selves who speak up the other people with disabilities. I am from a Self Advocacy group Called Our Shout in Wolverhampton.

One day I would like to write a book asking people without disabilities how they would cope with life their lives if they had disabilities. Here is a daft piece of writing hopefully working towards this book. I understand these things don't happen over night, could be writing this for years or not at all if I don't get the support.

PUT YOURSELF IN OUR SHOES!

The world is telling you to do with your life. The world is telling you what you can and can't have in life. The world seems to be coping better than you. The world seems to be bigger than you. This all because you have disabilities. The world only supports you with if, when and whatever it wants to be supporting you with. Very rarely it seems to be your choice. Wouldn't be nice to be able to manage just what you want to do without feeling guilty that your giving others hard work and or spending their money when it comes to funding. We know everyone needs to be paid but due to having disabilities we seem to be a guilty party of feeling as if we are putting on people's lives. Why are we feeling guilty when no human being is a machines? Everyone needs help with something but people with disabilities seem to need the most help and we are made to feel most useless.

Sometimes people without disabilities don't know when to support disabilities with and when not to. You know you can't be completely alone but you hate feeling useless. Most of the time the world is either not there for you or there for you all the time. There needs to be a balance in between these things. Even when things get better, we don't forget when things were worse. On the bright side of this people with disabilities can train people without disabilities to learn the thinking and understanding of people with disabilities. A world that is who have disabilities need to open up a new and better world of learning disabilities so life that is better than it was in than it was in the past. We need to raise awareness for the future. We cannot wave magic wounds for everything but we can make better difference than it was when our lives started.

I only wish I would have come across a person like me today when I was a young child,a teenage and even a young adult telling me that things would get better. Now I am here to tell the younger generation that you are going to get better support than what I did. You will most likely achieve what you want to, things I wanted to but there just wasn't the support. It was put a smile on my face to see you get by instead. I am not saying I haven't achieved anything but not that isn't any big deal but it might become quicker and easier for you than it was for me. I would be happy to see you happy.

Sara's Quotations.

I never knew love was DIY, if want love yourself before you love someone else.

If want a job doing do it yourself,DIY, don't love isn't a job but love can be a drug if you love them too much and even too long.

Animals love us more than humans, animals love us more than we love ourselves.

Animals understand our language better than we understand our own.

We understand animal language better than we understand our own.

The only MPs that are for people with learning disabilities, is people with learning disabilities ourselves.

Stress is the worse killer in the world for everyone, mainly when you have Learning disabilities and Health problems.


Never build your hopes up about life : never say never.

Always balance the good with the bad, never say life is all good, never say life is all bad.

It's not the world that's dangerous, it's the people in it.

Not enough safe people to make a safe world, in today's society.

The young today don't get enough punishment, that's why the world is dangerous before it gets more dangerous.

There are two people in one person, there's good and bad in everyone, there's no perfect world.

Never complain about losing love: some people have never been in love.

Everyone sees love in all different ways.

There are all different kinds of love.

There's always someone worse off than yourself.

Love comes and goes like buses.

Smile even if life is getting you down but don't smile if you have something to be ashamed of.

I spend the first five years of my working life on top of the very cold snowy Welsh mountains, looking after animals. I used to take out frozen water buckets out of stables and pour kettles of hot water over frozen taps. My hands were as cold as ice but very red.

A women can be very frighten of men when they have had far too much to drink but never believe that all men are the same ladies.

Poetry tells you to get on with life no matter what life throws at you.

We woman are not all victims from many men there are many that can be victims from many women too.

Missing someone is pain:thinking about them is happiness.


Life can be confusing:so much to do but very little time to do what's needed and wanted.


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