Exploring Experiences of Advocacy by People With Learning Disabilities: Testimonies of Resistance

by Mitchell, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9781843103592
• ISBN10: 1843103591
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY

Summary

Exploring Experiences of Advocacy by People with Learning Disabilities charts the course through which people with learning disabilities have become increasingly able to direct their own lives as fully active members of their communities. Accounts from the UK, Australia, Canada and Iceland consider both the individual pioneers of self advocacy and local and national groups that have been set up to work actively towards improved services for people with learning disabilities. The book also examines what self advocacy means for these people and provides an overview of how opportunities and services have changed for them over the decades. This is inspiring and encouraging reading for people with learning disabilities and provides useful information for those working with them or for them in community and government services.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(4)
Duncan Mitchell
Part I: Personal Accounts of Advocacy and Resistance	11	(80)
Advocacy as Resistance: Speaking Up as a Way of Fighting Back	13	(7)
Dorothy Atkinson
Mabel Cooper
Gloria Ferris
Restriction and Resistance: The Experience of Life on a Locked Ward for People with Learning Disabilities	20	(7)
Katherine Owen
`I Would Never Walk, Talk, Sit or Stand!' The Girl on the Tricycle	27	(10)
Marjorie Chappell
Duncan Mitchell
Two Pioneers of Self-advocacy: Ray Loomis and Tom Houlihan	37	(5)
Paul Williams
`I've Had Enough of the Everyday Thing': Karen Spencer's Life Story	42	(12)
Karen Spencer
Jan Walmsley
Resilience and Resistance in the Life Histories of Three Women with Learning Difficulties in Iceland	54	(14)
Gudrun Stefansdottir
Rannveig Traustadottir
Songs of Resistance	68	(23)
Sue Ledger
Lindy Shufflebotham
Part II: Speaking for Ourselves: Accounts of Self-advocacy in Action	91	(26)
My Life, My Choices	93	(7)
Paul Savage
Tina Wilkinson
Carl Worth
`What They Want -- Yes, But What We Want -- Bugger Us!'	100	(8)
Andy Docherty
Elizabeth Harkness
Malcolm Eardley
Louise Townson
Rohhss Chapman
The Life of a Group and a Personal Story: Experiences from Huddersfield People First	108	(9)
Jeremy Hoy
Dries Cautrels
Dan Goodley
Part III: Alliances with Others	117	(72)
Fires Burning: Advocacy, Camping and Children with Learning Disabilities in Ontario, 1950--1990	119	(9)
Jessa Chupik
Resistance in Mencap's History	128	(14)
Liz Tilley
One Man's Dream that Continues to Inspire Others	142	(11)
Heather Cadbury
Maureen Oswin and the `Forgotten Children' of the Long-stay Wards: Research as Resistance	153	(19)
Sheena Rolph
Dorothy Atkinson
Resistance and Control: Mutinies at Brentry	172	(7)
Peter Carpenter
Taking a Stand Against the Odds	179	(10)
Kelley Johnson
Part IV: Alternative Interpretations: Reflections on Resistance	189	(27)
Assistance and Resistance: Making Sense of Inter-war Caring Strategies	191	(11)
Pamela Dale
Stereotyped Behaviour: Resistance by People with Profound Learning Difficulties	202	(10)
Melanie Nind
Conclusion	212	(4)
Duncan Mitchell
The Contributors	216	(5)
Subject Index	221	(3)
Author Index	224