<< IASSID has established an Empowerment and Citizenship Special
Interest
Research Group, chaired by a self-advocate researcher (Karen Spencer,
from Central England People First).
Members of the Empowerment and Citizenship SIRG is meeting at the
IASSID conference on Thursday. >>
I've been made deputy chair of the SIRG. Karen Spencer was reelected
co-chair; Val Williams was made her co-chair (I thought it was
important that the SIRG was co-chaired by one self-advocacy researcher
and one academic one).
If you're interested in issues of empowerment and research--
particularly as it applies to people with learning/intellectual
disabilities-- I encourage you to join the EMPOWER email discussion
list:
http://www.peoplefirst.org.uk/empower.html
- Ria
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