Hi Deborah
I got another good idea, that will wake everyone up!!! My idea is that all academics and professional allies, with students should put their books, pens, laptops etc down for a day and 'stop mourning and pitying us' and get off their backside and 'organise' with DAN and others a 'protest' that will make the Government 'wake-up' to all the 'spin' which around about so-called 'disability-equality'.
The 'facts' are it's not happening!!!
I don't need to spend millions of wasted money on research to find that out.
If all this research and 'cure' money was redirected into 'services' to enable independent living, then I can tell you for a fact that 'independent living' would become a 'reality' for all disabled people and not a long distance dream.
How long will it take the Government to take-notice and listen to DAN's demands around basic human rights and disability equality to 'FREEOURPEOPLE'?Yours
Colin Revell
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:00:38 +0100> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: advice needed please> To: [log in to unmask]> > I'm going to wade back in here, because I'd really like to see the debate > developing between disability practitioners and activists/researchers. > I'd like more suggestions how to make my practice as ethically responsible > as possible.> > A fair amount of my work as an NHS clinical psychologist is gatekeeping > for the community learning disability service; deciding on who is eligible > for this specialist service. We use the bog standard medical model > definition of 'learning disability' based on IQ and 'functional skills'. > social workers have slightly different criteria, based on Access to Care > which looks more at the individual's social care needs and risk and > vulnerability.> > I'm going to outline some responses without declaring any attachment to > one over the others - I'd really like to learn other people's views.> > a) Resign, and devote myself to organic gardening and community activism > (funnily enough I would not really consider going into one of the other > branches of clinical psychology, which seem to be even more allied to > oppressive normalising ideologies than learning disabilities services)> > b) Argue that as resources are limited, there has to be some way of > determining who needs them most and this should be someone like me who has > lots of training in being able sensitively to look at and understand how > different aspects of someone's life interact; including their life > histories, ethnicity, wider social and cultural factors etc, and who is > good at involving users in this process etc.> > c) Ally myself more explicitly with services users, offering advice and > advocacy about how to negotiate the system (a quick shout out here to one > of my clinical psychology trainers, the heroic John Kenworthy, who mounted > a sit-in the local education authority offices when they refused to > support mainstream education for a boy that he had assessed. I think he > then lost his job...)> > d) Focus on training and consultation for 'mainstream' agencies so that > they can be more responsive to the needs of people with all sorts of > abilities/disabilities.> > Any other ideas?> > Deborah> > ________________End of message______________________> This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about the list administratione should be sent to [log in to unmask]> Archives and tools are located at:> www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html> You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.
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