Disability, all problems, mental health support

Our team

Sara Jane Gorman your creator

Harry Cawood your Head Admin

Alistair Wilkinson

Jennifer Gilbert Harvey

James Lakeman

Barry John Matthews

This group is an awareness, support, mentor, and advocacy group that covers all walks of life, the group is an all in one for people with learning disabilities, the elderly, etc.

Learning difficulties

special needs Autism, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, more and all

long term conditions

health problems

mental health

learning disabilities

Stroke

Cancer

debates

Aurrightus

More and all

The group all for people who are involved with the lives of the people who face all sorts of problems. People like parents, carers families, support, workers, social workers, professionals, etc in all levels of studying, training, trained, etc.

Please bear in mind there is a coronavirus lockdown, if anyone needs any support services etc maybe slow etc than they were before the lockdown we will do our best help. Most of of us have disabilities etc ourselves and Alistair is a paramedic and carer but we all have different skills and we can be very busy, that doesn't mean won't help when we can which is why those of you who are professionals, etc we would be grateful for you helping those who are facing disabilities, etc if they ask. However' so many people on the FB don't know one another, everyone has a choice so if you need to pm or and friend request people you don't for any reason ask their permission for first so they have a say whether they allow to or not, Do not contact them without permission unless you know them, added as a friend to them or and pming them already if they don't mind you doing so. We don't want to complain of our members having unexcepted unknown and unaware contacts off people they don't know.

whether it's socially or needing help advice etc or both off others.

If you need to contact admin, mainly if you don't one another as well please ask on the group. If there's a problem you don't need to say what it is on the group, just say I need to talk to an admin. also provide proof of the problem so we our job and if it's a person or people you may face a problem with this group if we need to block and remove anyone, we need to know we are blocking and removing those in the wrong not in the right.

At the end of the month we are closing 2 of our groups down, don't worry not this one. I will be making updates to this group month adding more on to it. One is a friendship group and another group similar to this one and some people from there may join us on here. Socializing is allowed but is mindful of who people are, people with disabilities, etc to socialize with people with disabilities. People who are professional, carers, etc are here to learn, give and even get support, etc for those they support to look after, etc, if not by us but others the same situation as them or maybe websites, information, services, etc but we are here to do our best too.

During the next few weeks, I will be writing another website link to this group, purpose, safety rules, safety tips, and advice in case there are vulnerable people who are wanting to socialize with vulnerable people. For those of who are parents carers, etc, there is a possible risk you may or may not get vulnerable people contacting you by mistake to think it may be someone they are meaning to want to make friends, etc if that happens and you wish to report it please feel free to do so, it may not be intentionally but with proof just to make sure we are doing our job right we will block the person or people for their safety as well as yours. Please do not pm or and friends request a carer, family, carers, etc, unless known them or and you have their permission to do so for whatever reason.

Just to say there may well some people you don't know guys who may not mind. this applies to whatever reason you have joined but you are best to ask permission just in case and that's whether it's an Admin or member unless you know them. added to a friend or have been pming already and you them well enough to know they won't mind. If someone contact you don't know without asking and you don't mind that's okay but if you do mind please feel free to report it to us with proof so we are blocking and removing people who are in the wrong, not those who haven't done anything wrong.

Health

education

employment

housing

socializing

benefits

hobbies

interests

Personal care

The coronavirus, lockdown, etc

Support in the home, household tasks, shopping, etc

Accessibility

Accessible information easy read

Disabled access etc

more and all

Helpline but plus bear they may be hard to contact due to the lockdown or maybe a bit slow.

http://www.stophateuk.org/ 0800 138 1625

WWW.crimestoppers-uk.org 0800 555 111

Learning Disability Hate Crime Stop Crime Helpline 0800 802 1155

http://www.mind.org.uk/ 0300 123 3393 email info@mind.org.uk

Samaritans WWW.sameritans.org 08457 90 90 90

Elder Abuse WWW. ageuk.org.uk 0808 808 81141

Victim Support WWW,victimsupport.org.uk 08045 3030 900

NHS medial help non - emergency 111 WWW.nhs.uk

NSPCC Helpline WWW.nspcc.org.uk 0808 800 5000

Citizens Advice 0844 111 444 from landline 0300 330 06550 from mobile and WWW.adviceguide.org.uk

Community legal advice 0845 345 4345 WWW.justice.org.uk

Emergency 999

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/mental-health-services

http://inspiritedminds.org.uk/

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/mental-health-emergency-if-youre-crisis-or-despair

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AnxietyandDepressionThebigtalk/

https://www.rethink.org/diagnosis-treatment/treatment-and-support/crisis-teams

If you need support to find important contacts that aren't this list, please feel to pm us but if we don't reply quick enough for you there are groups you could join not much different to ours.

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsararevealed.blogspot.com%2F2019%2F09%2Falways-learn-about-disability-and-or.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1JeWL1K78vcpB8p-aEoA-j5r3NOZZWWNf6zXULvOkeU9jVuovqA7RQt2M&h=AT2ohhIsTiVxQUAtSLr5arKuUP5AKH6Oyt68T2f68uCgDoEslubr-QKT3lUTiWDyh923upqGxRMM-We54yRMz_OeepT6-SWUn9LxwgP7hGY1xwePyrNS7PpppJeXkh8byHIZy9wZWdTwCq2DflY

https://sararevealed.blogspot.com/2019/12/living-with-disabilities-or-and-all.htmlSafety rules.

1. Don’t add someone to the group unless you have asked them if they agree have made us aware. (Please let us know.)

2. No bullying or hate crime, if you face bullying and hate crime please feel to report it us and we will see that an Admin who know how to report the person to Facebook does that as long as you have proof and whatever happens that person will be removed and blocked from our groups.

3. No out seen or sexual post.

4. No advertising product.

5. No talk of drugs unless it’s a certain awareness of disabilities and health problems.

6. No porn.

7. No swearing

8. If by any chance you have a very strong dislike towards someone and they are bugging you that much, please leave the group in respect of the other members don't communicate with that person on the group, you don’t have to give a reason unless you want to.

9. If you face anything nasty for anyone please feel free to report it to us and we will remove and block the person and even report them to Facebook if you feel there's a need to do that.

10. If you are aware of anyone breaking these rules please let us know thank you.

11. Please do not join our groups on more than just two profile, it gets confusing for us, thank you.

12. NO GIVING PERSONAL DETAILS SUCH AS ADDRESSES, EMAIL ADDRESSES. PHONE NUMBERS ETC, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY TO SOMEONE IF YOU PM SOMEONE. DON'T WRITE TO YOURS OR THEIR PERSONAL DETAILS ON THE GROUP OR GIVE THEM TO ANOTHER PERSON WITHOUT A PERON'S PERMISSION IF THEY REPORT YOU WITH PROOF, YOU WILL BE BLOCKED AND REMOVED OFF THE GROUP, MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL DO NOT GIVE ANYONE YOUR PASSWORDS.

13, Do not judge anyone.

14. No discrimination

15. No Sigma

16. Remember this group is to support people with disabilities or and or all problems to access all topics of life so socializing is one of them so always ask who people are and why they have joined the group because this group is also for people in the lives of disabilities, or and all problems such as parents, carers, families, friends, partners, social workers, support workers, professionals, etc, if you fit into these catering always let people know so people don't think your someone your not. For eg; only people with disabilities socialize with people disabilities.

17. No blocking Admin or member.

18. No getting involved with Admins personally, if anyone is it must be off the group and team.

19, If you face problems with anyone on this group, on the group or anywhere else, please provide us proof before blocking them so we don't block and remove people who haven't done wrong.

20. Not everyone knows people on the FB so if you feel a need to pm, someone, whether it's an Admin or a member ask them first unless you know them and spoke to them before, etc or you are already added to freind to or and to them before. No friends request either without someone's permission, we don't want reports of unexcepted PMS or and friends to request but please feel free to report them if you face them and remember to provide proof so we block and remove the person in the wrong, not in the right.

21. No request to the groups on more than 1 profile, more than 1 profile is confusing for the Admins.

22. No buying and selling anything to anyone on the group but donating anything to charities etc is fine. One rule we have forgotten and I guess a lot of you wouldn't do this but it can be easily done for some people just a bit of advice.

Hi, all just to say when asking someone if you can pm them or and friend request. always wait for their reply to the group first so they have a say yes or no. This whether you are wanting to friend request a member or Admin.

No giving your personal details on the groups such as phone numbers, email addresses, home addresses, etc form Sara creatorhttps://sararevealed.blogspot.com/2020/04/disability-all-problems-mental-health.html

supporting disabilities and all problem.

Accessible information easy read.

Everyone sees accessible information in different ways when accessible is really in my view where you just do not miss what your reading and it is staring you right in the face, it is so clear. My advice is to save yourself as much hard work as possible, whether writing for people with disabilities and other problems or other people, if you know who your writing for is to ask them first. It’s not always the case but in some situations, if the information is not clear enough for people could be the answer to why there are no replies, why people may not turn up for appointments or may reasons people don’t get the response they may except depending on the situation.

With IT, the internet,  the icons on word etc, whatever the right word is to choose,  there are so many different ways you can choose how to make your information, which at one time wasn’t there other than say a paper, pen and an old fashioned typewriter, which was still just about there when I was a child, Computer wasn’t around as far as I’m aware. This is where there are different types of fonts, styles, sizes of writing etc. Such as bold, italics, underline, size 18, comic san, Ariel, or FS Mencap etc.

Most people feel as if they have been shouted at someone when people do a lot of writing in blocked capital letters when it is not people’s intentions.

Most people tend to like titles in bold and subheadings underlined, instructions, directions etc very often in bullet points, 123, ABC etc, which tends to break the information down and make it bitesize for most people.

No jargon and information are written in small print to a point words are jumping off the page, most people find that eye-straining and even blinding.

This could mean different coloured paper for example, some people purple writing on pink paper. Most people do not get on with green. Some people like codes and colours. Words in white (reversed out text) on the coloured paper background can be harder to read. Remember everyone manages with colour different ways so I would ask people you are before you go through the trouble of guessing if I were you first. Try to use your full stops at the end of every sentence, which also can help to break your information down for your reader.

Try not to use other punctuation if your reader likes it that way. Do not use abbreviations like don’t for example.

One subject on – one page, if this is not possible making you put some type of guide mark on to show your reader what is what if your reader likes it that way.

Also, use page numbers if you are doing pages of writing.

Avoid columns

It’s easy for some people to read across the page.

Make sure there’s plenty of space for people to write when creating forms.

If using and taking photographs, if the building etc you may be taking a picture of etc, if it doesn’t belong to you, do not take the picture without the owner’s permission. If the answer is no please accept that and explain to the reader why the picture isn’t answered if they have answered or while planning the information let the reader know depending what the owner says you may or may not be allowed to add the picture.

Some people may like you to write on the right – hand side of the page.

Do not float the text on top or across the page unless the reader wants it that way.

Useful tips.

Show pictures of clocks or even watches etc to show when your the appointment is with the person and a picture of where your meeting if you have your boss’s permission a picture of the building of the office you may work or somewhere outside, town, library, café etc but always check the permission of the owner in case they have policy rules etc and let the person know whether your allowed to take pictures or not. If there are certain pictures you can’t access, and this makes it’s hard for the person to access the information to make double sure that the information is in large print. If this still makes it hard for the person to follow like say they are finding it hard to get to a certain place then direct them and keep in touch on the phone, if you can’t plan transport for them etc.

This could be you are writing your information step by step, bullet points, 123, ABC, however, the person likes, so they know what to do first, second and so on. For example, turn left, turn so on.

Most people find cartoon pictures childish.

Another tip could be that some people may find PowerPoint more accessible that information on word, even word is like PowerPoint. For example, picture of a clock or watch that shows the time they need to be seeing you for slide one say, then slide where if you have the owner’s permission, and maybe letting know if you are wanting them to bring anything etc.

Some people might find a pretty power on a leaflet may be more accessible.

Some may not like shiny paper.

Some may find it hard to see words and pictures if they are not clear.

Some may find A5 notepad or book may be easier rather than carrying loads of loose sheets of paper.

Maybe for some CD or and DVD.

Make information easy for the person to find.

Maybe if needs are using a buddy system where they can go through the information and ask questions if they wish.

Some people may need plenty of notice before their appointment or meeting, therefore I understand it’s not always easy your so busy but they to set up their information at least a before their appointment so they understand what’s all going and what’s all excepted from them.

Effects of Dyslexia.

Try not to give them too much information at one time.

They may overthink or go blank so make sure you and them have a copy of whatever they are supposed to be doing or saying, for example, if they are doing any public speaking, meeting etc.

You may have to step because they may mistakenly miss information out without meaning or even, they may struggle reading certain words etc.

They do things not wrong but in the wrong order for example, if something is on the 21^st June, they may say or write the 12^th June, another example might be mixing bs and ds mistaking say dog for bog.

Dyslexia aids maybe say coloured overlays, highlight pens, forber castell grip 2011 propelling pencils.https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/

Introducing Learning disability Anti-bullying and hate crime.

Mencap is worried about people with disability disabilities all ages etc facing bullying and hate crime. Support goes out from Mencap to families, carers, etc. This can happen to people who have not got a learning disability too, but it seems to happen to people with disabilities, etc mostly without us being a center of attention, we are as human as everyone. For everyone bullying and hate crime has a huge effect on lives, such as the body and mind, nightmares, etc. Everyone goes through good and bad in life, but no one deserves to go through bullying and hate crime.

I faced bullying all my school life and only went to one mainstream school, all the rest special school and one boarding school, Kingwood Special Boarding school, Saint Luke’s Infants Mainstream school, Hales bury special day school, and Penn Fields special day school. When you are a child, you do not understand right from wrong and it is hard to understand how others feel. I think many of the children in our school picked each other’s disabilities. Children without disabilities etc need learning disability awareness to understand people with including children. When I was in school, many children with special needs bullied children with because of their disabilities even though they had disabilities themselves, which is odd where you would there be understanding there.

The most common reason why most children to bullying are race, beliefs, disbeliefs, disability, color, religion, nationally, sexually, etc, which has always happened and even today. People are human beings and they have feelings. Why can’t we respect one another or keep away from one another? People with disabilities etc and other raises should be allowed to educate those who need educating on why bullying, hate crime, and war is wrong more so on the raise. We do agree there’s no perfect world, some people are okay, and others are not. Although I do believe that the UK is an overpopulated country, we can’t affront to feed, house, etc the whole world and the UK is only a small country but that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone is against people from other counties, like us some are okay and some are not.

Those of you who have been bullied or and faced hate crime like I have are more than welcome to tell me your story if you wish on sarajgorman@gmail.com also, how can you help others who may be facing the same thing now, if you wish to? How can you raise awareness of disability bullying and hate crime if you wish to?

Some people may bully because they face bullying themselves, but others understand what it feels like so much they would not dream of it. Some people bully because they can be jealous of you if you have something they have not, which is hard for one to understand. For example, if you come from a well off or rich family or they are not but strangely it can happen the other way round too were, for example, someone well dressed can take offense of someone say who has a hole in their a shoe for example.

As strange as it sounds either in a good or bad way where there is something good about you, they feel that they wish they had or something makes them angry but most likely it’s not anything that should make anyone angry. Some people just, not sure why to have some very strange ways of thinking where they feel ashamed to say why which is very often naturally unknown. I am not sure, but I guess this may be wrong as to why most people commit hate crime too, which for all is no excuse though. Some people tend to have nothing better to do, which is why they have it into others, another reason tends to be if they not having a positive time in life themselves, no excuse and on the whole, they are never sorry.

Like I said I had been to one mainstream school and three special schools and I faced bullying in all. All adults could say really school days are the best years of your life, not when you are getting bullied, they are not, which was why it played on my mind for a long time, which can be another cause of suicide risks. This is where I think counseling and therapy is important, which I know it does not help everyone but most people where mental and emotional stress can affect though who suffer from it physically and mentally.

A lot of people think that bullying and hate crime just happens in schools, which is not always the case. Even though I have not faced bullying in colleges, workplaces, etc that does not mean it does not or has not happened elsewhere. Although I have faced hate crime on the streets and I guess it could happen in pubs etc.

Learning from the past I think the future needs to be where we need to teach mainstream people around learning disability and mental health awareness, bully and hate crime is one of them where we need to be asking why people with disabilities and mental health face hate crime and bullying.

This is where people who commit a crime on these, people whether they are children, teenagers, adults and even the elderly is because we are classed as vulnerable, we are less likely to report it or if we do we are less likely to believed and understood in the way the police can understand us.

I’m no professional but by a guess, those who commit a hate crime and even bullying know the minds of people with disabilities, therefore choose places where are no CCT cameras and where they are less likely to be seen, knowing that the victim is going to find it hard to explain to people they know and the police.  Therefore, they know it is a very slim chance someone the victim knows is likely to see what happens.

This is concerning because the victim is not intentionally telling anyone but worried, they may be disbelieved and misunderstood.

This could lead the victim to face emotional stress, nightmares, thoughts of suicide, etc or and taking their own lives, which I have faced myself in childhood was back in those days there wasn’t counseling etc, mainly crimes such as rape and sexual the abuse wasn’t an easy one mostly for children because it was the  sort of world them children wasn’t supposed to know about these things yet it happened to most of them.

Also, it’s like, despite of how strict adults were with children back them, it was never thought back then that children would murder, which therefore it was very rare but it did happen such as Mary Bell in the 60s, then  about 25 years on the murder of James Budger, which happened by two teenager boys, then I think child murder started to slowly sadly increase from there, well more so we were more aware then.

I feel it’s important that adults now talk and listen to the child more so than ever before, voices need to be heard more, mainly children and young people, even adults really to those who face disabilities and other problems as well.

 When a person is not been listened or and disbelieved, the people who have faced them with hate crime may commit thousands of  crimes to other people, which for whatever the reason the victims may find hard to report for not necessarily the same but maybe similar reasons, which hugely concerning how many unknown crimes etc may have happened. Don’t get me wrong, this may not be necessary the case where some just may have the ability to report them, which these things are unknown but I may even vary, depending on the people who commit the crime and the type victims they chose, I guess.

One subject we hate talking about is abuse, rape, etc but if we do not say anything too many people getaway it, which makes no difference if you disbelieved and misunderstood. There are a feeling times some people think you're saying what you're saying to seek the attention of others, which I admit no one is perfect but less likely the victim is not lying if they have been trying to say most of their lives and not been understood or even believed.  

People with disabilities and other problems seem to be looked upon as a weak member of society which may be true in some ways and not in others but each and every one of us is likely to be different from one another. We need to be seen, heard, understood, and believed more. We know these days there are cameras in most places, but they are not everywhere. Most people are scared to report crimes etc in fear nothing will be done through being disbelieved etc, which is something people without disabilities and other problems face as well with. However’ we not saying no one lies and we are not saying that there aren’t people who lie to try and get attention etc, which makes sense to why there are people who have faced crime, haven’t had their crime sorted, all the same, there must be ways that things should be looked into more carefully.  However’ even though in most cases by the time crimes are believed and understood if they are, years may have gone by those responsible, etc may have died or anything, which I understand looking to these things isn’t an easy job for the police or anyone.https://www.mencap.org.uk/advice-and-support/bullying/mate-and-hate-crime

Learning Disability Hate Crime Awareness.

On Monday 20th February 2012, at 8.20pm, I faced Learning Disability Hate Crime by home area in Bradmore. I was just going into town for a drink to meet friends.

As I was going out to lock my door at 8.15pm, I saw an Indian guy with pale blue sweater with a hood, he had black curly hair, mid-brown skin and he was roughly about just over 5 foot 5 in height.
He was on the opposite side of the road to me, he headed off faster than me. I didn't think anything of him because I don't know him.

I walked along the road, stood to wait for my bus.
The same guy came behind me as he grabbed my bag out my hand, ran across the road, go into a blue car while it was driving.
Whoever was driving was driving so fast he or she would have been done for speeding if the police would have seen them.
At speed it was going I couldn't catch the reg number.
I am not very good with numbers anyway.

For 5 minutes I walked around in shock and Sheree panic.
I knew my phone and keys were in my bag so I ran across the pub, the staff were very good as they rang the police and I had a free pint.
The police came down, took my details and then drove me to my sister's home.
Luckily my sister had a spare set of my keys.
My sister and her boyfriend were very good, they drove me to my home to get my computer and laptop to take to their home.
My sister stopped my calls on my phone, rang Centro to sort me out a new Disabled bus pass and stop my bank because my card was taken out of my bus pass, which was also in my bag.

The next morning the police came to my sister's house to take a statement of me.
I hadn't slept very well there that night, everything was all going round and round inside my head.
By the time I did a statement with police I had a bad job remembering anything other than this Indian guy with a blue sweater and the blue the car he jumped into.

From there my sister and her boyfriend drove me up to my home to change my locks and put my computer and laptop back where it was before the crime.

On Thursday of that week, the police came down to my home Luckily for me to bring back my bag.
My bank card was taken out of my Disabled bus pass, but my A disabled bus pass card was taken out it's a wallet.
My bank card had gone.
The police did fingerprints on an Iceland shopping card, my library card and my Disabled bus pass card but nothing was found.

Not long after the police left that day Victim support rang me to ask how I was feeling. I told them I was in shock but the police, my sister and her boyfriend have been a great support.
In a couple days, Victim support sent me an attack alarm.
At the end of last week, someone from Victim rang me up to make an appointment for me to have some counseling on Tuesday this week at 1.00pm

Someone had handed my bag into the police station.
I think he took what he wanted and left the bag just anywhere, which is good for me but he's made himself found out without him knowing about it.
Then isn't good, he shouldn't have taken my bag at all.

Last Thursday me and my sister went down to the Police station so I could look at some pictures but none of them looked like him.
Saying that I drew a picture of him, which I gave the police.

Lucky for me even though I couldn't ring anyone or get into my home the night of the crime because my keys and phone were in my bag.

I am lucky I live near a local pub, I would have panic more.
It can be very hard to trust anyone today.
I would be scared of knocking on people’s doors mainly if I don't know them because I could be anyone to them, even though I am not that kind of person but they don't know that. I guess I may have found help but it would have taken longer than it did if I hadn't have lived near the pub.
I only panic for about 5 minutes wondering what to do because I was in complete shock.
There are some people with disabilities and health problems worse than me.
They may have been wandering around all night having families, carers and etc worrying about them.
Lucky for me my communication skills aren't that bad so I was a bit understood by the police compared to how I was years ago, this is why nothing has been done about the crimes I have faced in the past.
This can make a lot of crimes disbelieved because of a lot of people with disabilities and health problems find it hard to make ourselves understood.
Like I said in one of my reports last year, there are not cct cameras everywhere.

All disabilities and health problems are different some get better as people get older but others don't.

People who commit crimes always pick a quiet moment where no one is about to be seen.
Normally outside my local pub, mostly there are people smoking outside but for some strange reason, it was very quiet that night of the crime.
When I walked into the pub after the crime there was only two members of bar staff and one customer who was gone in no time.

History of Learning Disability.

Before the 1980s, and even after a lot of people learning disabilities lived in long-stay hospitals, care homes, etc no matter the disabilities and other problems were. There was not any choice and control, we were always supported by staff. We did not really learn how to do things in life because society saw us as a danger. the 80s to The 90s most people with disabilities started living out in the community with a little support and most long-stay hospitals closed and more started to close in the early to mid-2000s.

In the past, we were treated differently to other people but very slowly over the years we have started to be treated a bit equally, but we still have a long way to go.

 In the 70s, 80s and before them, many people with disabilities and other problems were abused and bullied by other children and start in the school, which was never really believed at the time from my experience and many others who I went to school with would say the same.

 With not naturally been in school etc for years, I do not know what’s changed since then and what has not today. This was because we were seen but not heard and there was not any way of us providing proof unless someone saw what happened, which was rare if that was the case. I would like to think schools are more aware now, child counseling, CCT cameras, etc.

In most places and situations, people with disabilities and other problems had poor treatment and neglected but we know there have been some changes for the better but again I guess we still have a long way to go and still not everything is known.

In the past, we have been labeled mentally handicapped, subnormal, mentally backward, eternal, a menace to society, a burden to society and more, again we know that changes for the better have happened but not all known and still a long way to go.  https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/media/1749/disabiliyt-timeline-2013.pdf

https://www.dlf.org.uk/content/key-facts

https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1945-to-the-present-day/disability-rehabilitation-and-work/

http://www.open.ac.uk/health-and-social-care/research/shld/timeline-learning-disability-history

https://www.livescience.com/18802-dickens-tiny-tim-diagnosis.html

https://www.lancslearningdisabilityinstitutions.org.uk/content/category/history

In the time period of Charlies Dickens, which was the Victoria era, having disabilities back then were sadly seen as a shameful thing where people with disabilities had no choice but to depend on parents and siblings to a point they became beggars when parents and siblings died. In fact, I it was exceedingly rare back then that they lived longer than their parents and siblings.

In the Cricket of the health, there are a few disabled characters, such as the deaf stranger and Bertha who was blind.

For mainstream people and disabled people there can never be a perfect life, but it can be better than it is, and it is improved to what it was, it is still not enough. However,’ to try and improve the future of disabled people we need to be looking at how disabled people faced life in the past, also incudes people with other problems too.

It all began in 1946...

The 1940s

• In 1946 Judy Fryd, a mother of a child with a learning disability, formed 'The National Association of Parents of Backward Children' - which later became Mencap.
• She wrote to 'Nursery World' magazine inviting other parents to contact her. Many wrote back to Judy expressing their anger and sorrow at the lack of services for their children.

The 1950s

• In 1955 the association changed its name to 'The National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children' and opened its first project, the Orchard Dene short-stay residential home.
• In 1958, the National Society launched a ground-breaking project called the Brooklands Experiment. This compared the progress of children with a learning disability who lived in the hospital with a group of children who were moved to a small family environment and cared for using educational activities modeled on those in 'ordinary' nurseries. After two years, the children in the home-like environment showed marked improvements in social, emotional, and verbal skills. The success of the experiment was published around the world.

The life of Judy Fryd

In 1946 Judy Fryd, a mother of a child with a learning disability, wrote a letter to Nursery World to highlight the unfairness of her daughter being sent away from a mainstream school. Little did she know she would start a movement. This is her story.

The 1960s

• In 1963 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother opened the National Society's new hostel and training workshop in Slough, Buckinghamshire - the first training center of its kind for adults with a learning disability.
• In 1966 Mencap started the Gateway clubs, offering sports and leisure opportunities for people with a learning disability.
• In 1969, the society shortened its name to 'Mencap'.

The 1970s

• In 1975 Mencap's Pathway employment service began.
• The Mencap Trust The company was set up in 1976 to provide a discretionary trust service for families.

The 1980s

• Mencap's influence and campaigning work saw people with a learning disability included in the Further and Higher Education Act.
• Mencap set up the first homes and community-based accommodation for people with a learning disability in The UK.
• In 1985, Mencap's services for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities were founded. These were among the first in the UK.
• A new national survey of disabled people included people with a learning disability.
• In 1986, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother became the patron of Mencap.

The 1990s

• People with a learning disability were elected as Mencap national assembly members and became fully involved in decisions about how Mencap is run.
• In 1995 the Disability Discrimination The act was passed. It aimed to end the discrimination faced by many disabled people and to guarantee their civil rights.
• In 1998 Golden Lane Housing was established.

The 2000s

• In 2001 the government published ‘Valuing People' white paper.
• In 2004 the Countess of Wessex became Mencap's patron.
• In 2004 Mencap launched its new five-year corporate strategy called ‘Equal chances', which focused on securing equal chances in life for all people with a learning disability.
• In 2005 the government published a report, ‘Improving the life chances of disabled people', and set out plans to improve the quality of life of disabled people by 2025.
• In 2006 Mencap celebrated 60 years as the leading UK charity for people with a learning disability.
• In 2008 Mencap rebranded as part of the plans to make Mencap a more modern and dynamic organization. This included the launch of a new font, Famed, developed with people with a learning disability.
• In 2009 The Department of Health published ‘Valuing People Now', a three-year plan for learning disability services in England.
• In the same year, The UK finally ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It reaffirmed that disabled people have the same human rights as non-disabled people.
• 2009 ended on a high when the International Paralympic Committee voted to re-include athletes with a learning disability in the Paralympic Games.

Before  and after the twenty century  disabled people were seen as a burden an extra body and month to feed that cannot do it for ourselves, which there’s still that feeling today, even though that may have improved to how it was.  It’s like we are punished for being born and as if we chose to be how we are in the first place, which with the right support etc, we should be able to get by in life equal to other people. Society tends to even today look more so our negatives than our positives, which is better than it was, but we still have a long way to go.

This makes us feel more negative about ourselves to a point depression kicks into us and to one of the reasons why there’s such an increase of suicides not that I’m saying that all that face depression face disabilities and I’m not saying all of us who face depression will take our own lives. If people say a lot of negative about people lots of people are likely to feel negative about themselves where they could feel life is not worth living.

However,’ life isn’t always black and white and never was where in the first world war one 1914 to 1918, there were about two million ex-servicemen who were looked at as disabled heroes which changed the attitude which society became slightly positive about disabled people. https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1914-1945/

Sadly thousands of soldiers in the first world war and probably in the second became disabled for life, those who lived but I think there were who were lucky to not become disabled even though they may have faced been shot in some way etc.

TB, Polio, rickets, etc was rather common in the first world war, which I think were classed as disabilities, but I am not sure if it was in the second world war though. http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/themes/diseases/polio

Autism History.

Leo Kenner had described Autism as Autism Syndrome back in 1943, which is a specific pattern of abnormal behavior he described as infantile Autism. Kanner did not any number of people who face the condition.

Over twenty years later, Victor Lotter published the Epidemiological study of children with behavior patterns by Kanner.

https://www.autism.org.uk/about/what-is/myths-facts-status’s