New book is out today which is exciting (terrifying). Full details are here. You can get 20% off with this code 25AFLY2 which is cool.

It’s a grim read. In the preface, the series editors, Antonia Lyons and Kerry Chamberlain write:

This book is at times a distressing read, being ultimately about human rights, who they are and are not afforded to, and who is colluding in human rights abuses. We all – researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, charities and anyone engaged in this field – need to be thinking much more critically about people with learning disabilities and our responsibilities for and towards them, and consider how complicit we are in both disavowing the ordinary aspects of everyday life and other people with learning disabilities.

I spent a year reading research and writing about people with learning disabilities and concluded a whole swathe of people are involved in these entrenched failings, either wilfully or ignorantly. Until this group wake up to this and act, people will continue to die years earlier than their non-disabled peers.

The book is dense with references so I’ve produced a summary which is more accessible. Many thanks to those who fed back on earlier drafts of this. It is a nifty document that should be shared with all those I mention in the previous paragraph.