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Feel very lucky to be part of the project led by Sue Caton @learningmet Education@Sheffield 👊👊👊

Thank you to everyone who came to the #coproduction symposium #cds24 Great to see such enthusiasm for research by people with learning disabilities 👊👊👊

Brilliant paper on SpinningPlates_CarerMH by Dr Martina Smith & Prof Katherine Runswick-C on the multiplicity of care stories that include love, joy, anger and distress - these stories co-exist rather than being levied against one another Centre for Disability Studies

Education@Sheffield Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met

Education@Sheffield Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met

‘I literally love where I am’: experiences of people with learning disabilities renting their own place. Interesting findings. David Abbott Eppie Leishman

New paper that might be of interest to #CDS24 folks written with Ned & Harvey and based on NIHR School for Social Care Research funded studies: “Disabled people negotiate gender, sexual identity and self-directed social care support in England: how does choice and control operate?” bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/…

“We found that people can be supported to live good lives as they get older…However, we found that ageing of people with learning disabilities is often ignored, and some people were not living good lives.” #CDS24 By Prof Ryan and team. 1/2 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38940476/

Feels like essential read for aging, social gerontology world - research, policy, practice. General invisibility of people with learning disabilities re aging. Folks expected to stay in a singular, lonely ‘box’ labelled ‘learning disability’ and be of little wider interest 2/2

Sharing our #CDS24 presentation here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.u… #CDS24 You can also download the visual description/transcript for the films in the presentation from the link. Thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday!

Easy read summary available here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/… #CDS24

We will be accepting contributions to the Spinning Plates online exhibition about caring and mental health until the end Oct 2024 and would love some more exhibits! Please DM or follow the link in the Spinning Plates post below to sign up. Thank you so much 🫶🏻

"I feel very unsupported as these forms continue to come; I look for support but no agency can signpost me" #PaperworkMatters You can visit the Exhibition here: carermhspinningpla.wixsite.com/spinplatesexhi…

Black Disability Politics | Books Gateway | Duke University Press #FreeToDownload 👊👊👊 #cds24 read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/309…

As #cds24 comes to an end, huge thanks to Centre for Disability Studies for hosting and a (not so) gentle invitation from one of the contributors for you to view the Exhibition ... carermhspinningpla.wixsite.com/spinplatesexhi…

VERY excited about this! ***NEW*** toolkit from Royal College of Emergency Medicine to support ED clinicians in caring for patients with a #LearningDisability #MedX #MedTwitter #FOAMed #TeamED #EmergencyMedicine Download from here: rcem.ac.uk/reports/

It was great to hear more about the SpinningPlates_CarerMH project at the #CDS24 conference. They highlighted how care is often not considered to be a part of disability studies, but the challenges that come with care in a disablist society are so important to acknowledge and address.

Great new article on choice and control as disabled people negotiate gender and sexuality identity

Brilliant resource here from the SAAIL: Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives team. Great that it keeps growing too.