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Enabling self-advocacy: working hand-in-hand with people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- CALLUS Anne-Marie
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, June 2012, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The responses of people with learning disabilities clearly show how important it is to take their views into account. Yet, it is often the views of professionals that are listened to. This leads to a propensity for interactions with people with learning disabilities to be based primarily on a consideration of their impairments, rather than from a consideration of their wishes, aspirations or perceptions. This article suggests that to make self-advocacy truly enabling requires an understanding of how the term ‘learning disability’ is understood. It discusses the notion of ‘normal’, and how learning disabilities imply ‘not normal’ – which can have deleterious effects on the lives of those with learning disabilities, including social rejection, a lack of control over their own lives, and a lack of opportunity.
Constructing sexual identities: people with intellectual disability talking about sexuality
- Authors:
- AZZOPARDI-LANE Claire, CALLUS Anne-Marie
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43(1), 2015, pp.32-37.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper presented research undertaken in collaboration with a self-advocacy group using inclusive research methods and puts forward the views of people with intellectual disability on the topics of sexuality and relationships. The paper presents the perceptions of sexuality of the people with intellectual disability and how these are influenced by social and cultural norms. Using Judith Bulter's concept of performativity, the analysis of the findings shows how some people with intellectual disability accept the sexual norms that are ascribed to them, while others resist them. The paper also shows how the inclusive research process itself enabled the people with intellectual disability who took part to articulate their acceptance or resistance of these norms. (Publisher abstract)