Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met

Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder This empirically grounded book presents a critical, interdisciplinary perspective on social and cultural issues related to the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities. Through an exp...

"The book highlights the enduringly impoverished lives and premature deaths people labelled with learning disabilities experience globally and suggests that such structural violence amounts to social murder." @sarasiobhan.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/Critical-Hea...

Resources - Learning Disability and Autism Research Group People with learning disabilities, erasure and social murder This resource explains more about Professor Sara Ryan’s book, ‘Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Soc...

Professor Sara Ryan's new book 'Critical Health and Learning Disabilities: An Exploration of Erasure and Social Murder' is out today. There's a Plain English summary on our website: learningmet.mmu.ac.uk/resources/

Did someone you work with receive a free tablet during the #COVID-19 pandemic? We want to hear about their experiences through our @digitallifeline.bsky.social accessible online survey. They could win £100 for taking part!

#SelfAdvocacy #LearningDisabilities #AutRes #AcademicSky #DigitalInclusion

Three Years on From “Stay at Home”: Perspectives of People With Intellectual Disabilities About the Ongoing Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic Background People with intellectual disabilities were disproportionately negatively affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there has been limited research about the perceived longer-term impact....

"The Government just don't even have a clue about what the pandemic has done to people like me, with an [intellectual] disability."

Findings from research on ongoing impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic for people with learning disabilities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@suecaton.bsky.social

Iatrogenic injustice: an institutional ethnography of Fitness to Practise hearings The public has an important role to play in the regulation of health and social care, including raising concerns about harms caused by health and soci…

'Our investigation of the experiences of public witnesses shows that, from their standpoint, FtP hearings are experienced as inherently unfair.'

Follow the link to read more about findings emerging from the Witness to Harm project:

@francescaribenfors.bsky.social @sarasiobhan.bsky.social

BAP - 6704 Chancellor's Dinner Research Film V10

In this short video, Professor Sara Ryan, research group lead, and Professor Chris Hatton share more about the Learning Disability and Autism research group at @scswmcrmet.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social.

#AcademicSky #AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch #ResearchGroup #ManMet

On Friday, we had a great first meeting with a new oversight group - people with learning disabilities, autistic people & family carers. They will be giving feedback on our team's research. We've been calling them the Critical Friends group, but watch this space - they're working on a better name!

For more information about the @medmentalhealth.bsky.social project, along with useful resources for talking about mental health medications, you can visit the project website: medmentalhealth.net

#MyMedicationMyMentalHealth #AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch

Do you know someone with a learning disability who got a tablet in 2021 through the Digital Lifeline Fund? They could win up to £100 for telling us about their experiences (with multiple chances to win!) and your organisation will get a thank-you payment for connecting us with them. E-mail us: digitallifeline@mmu.ac.uk for more

Please share!

Did your organisation support people with #LearningDisabilities to get set up with free tablets through the #DigitalLifelineFund in 2021? We want to hear from you!

#LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #AutRes #Survey #SocialResearch #DigitalInclusion #DigitalLifeline

You can also read #comics about the stories of people with #LearningDisabilities, #carers, #families, and #prescribers:

📖: medmentalhealth.net#page-a

#LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky #MentalHealth

The Medications and My Mental Health Glossary says what important words about mental health and medication mean. For example, it says what a counsellor does.

Read the glossary: medmentalhealth.net#page-1

#MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek #AcademicSky

The conversation cards can give some ideas for talking to doctors, nurses, and pharmacists about mental health medications.

Read the conversation cards: medmentalhealth.net#page-9

#MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek

The easy-read question and answer booklets give more
information to help people talk about your mental health
and medications. They answer questions like 'what is mental
health?'

Read the booklets here: medmentalhealth.net#page-2

#MentalHealth #LearningDisabilityWeek

People with #LearningDisabilities are more likely to take mental health medications. The @medmentalhealth.bsky.social team have made lots of tools to help people with learning disabilities talk about their #MentalHealth medications.

🧰: medmentalhealth.net#information-...

#LearningDisabilityWeek

A Multi-Informant Approach to Exploring Connections, Disruptions, and the Multidimensional Elements of Transition to Adulthood for People with Intellectual Disabilities | Scandinavian Journal of Disab...

'[...] transition is more than just a process or an event; it’s an intricate body of parts that connect and affect each other'

Dr @francescaribenfors.bsky.social considers the impacts of transition on young people, mothers, and professionals.

📖 sjdr.se/articles/10....

#LearningDisabilityWeek

Six people celebrating around a sign for Learning Disability Week 2025.

It's #LearningDisabilityWeek! We'll be sharing more about our research, and some of the resources we've created to support people with learning disabilities.

The information toolkit has helpful tools to use and share with others who help with mental health medications like GPs, nurses or pharmacists:

Go to the toolkit: medmentalhealth.net#information-...

#LearningDisabilityResearch #MedMentalHealth

People with #LearningDisabilities are more likely to take medications for their mental health. The project sought to create a toolkit of resources to help people with learning disabilities be more involved in decisions about their mental health medications.

#MedMentalHealth #AcademicSky

Today, Dr @suecaton.bsky.social will be speaking with the STOMP steering group at the South Yorkshire Mental Health, Learning Disabilities & Autism Provider Collaborative to share information and resources from the Medications and My Mental Health project.

#AcademicSky #LearningDisabilityResearch

Preview of six posters produced by the UK Home Office which detail 'do's' and 'don'ts' of making web design and content more accessible.

How can we make web design and content more accessible for everyone?

#GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay #GAAD

Read more: ukhomeoffice.github.io/accessibilit...

On the left is an mage of a calendar page showing 15th May. On the right is the logo for Global Accessibility Awareness Day showing the letters GAAD in a dark blue, incomplete circle with a keyboard at the starting point of the circle. Both images are on a white background.

Today is #GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay!

#AutRes #LearningDisabilityResearch

Chris Hatton reflects on drawing others into activism. Shaun talked about patience - how to keep going when you’re not seeing change. Comments today about how the film Shaun made about benefit cuts 10 years ago could have been made today. Shaun: importance of mutual support and wellbeing.

After some great questions, Sara Ryan sums up some learning from this Activism seminar series. Activism is about collectivism - working together, standing alongside people, being good allies. It’s is about being bold. It’s about using the tools you can - there are many ways to fight for change.

Shaun asks people to email their MPs and talk to them about these issues. Thank you to Shaun for an excellent presentation and for sharing powerful films.

It’s hard when you keep working for so long and don’t see change. But Shaun is an activist - someone who protests for change, a left wing campaigner. He encourages others to become champions and activists. The government needs to understand the lives of people with learning disabilities.

Shaun & friends went on the Camino pilgrimage to promote the Laughing Boy campaign. The group questioned Southern Health. Was involved in coproduction in research aiming to be inclusive of people with learning disabilities. The group were not listened to & they pulled out of the research.

Shaun shares a film he made with My Life My Choice- people with learning disabilities challenging harmful myths about benefits & experiences of barriers to work. “I am not a burden.” “One day you might need this support.” The group fought cuts to PIP. Shaun was being rushed into work without support

Our final seminar speaker in our Activism series is Shaun Picken. Shaun is an advocate & activist at My Life My Choice @mylifemychoice1.bsky.social . Shaun wasn’t into politics when he got involved but that soon changed! He joined Power Up - research & advocacy on issues including benefit cuts. 🧵

Join us on Wednesday!

Shaun Picken’s Activism and Advocacy Journey at My Life My Choice (@mylifemychoice1.bsky.social )

When: Wednesday, 14th May 2025 @ 12-1pm
Where: Online

Find out more and get the link below:

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Shaun Picken’s Activism and Advocacy Journey at My Life My Choice Example

Thank you to all who have joined us so far at this year's #seminarseries. We hope you can join us for our next seminar:

Shaun Picken’s Activism and Advocacy Journey at My Life My Choice (@mylifemychoice1.bsky.social)

When: Wednesday, 14th May 2025 @ 12-1pm
Where: Online

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