Asserting your right to equal health; Justifying your quality of life to others who make decisions on your behalf; Having to make disproportionate efforts to gain the understanding and compassion of others about your need for reasonable adjustments about your health and life?
For people with learning, or intellectual disabilities*, challenging barriers and confounding expectations make up a considerable part of their daily lives.
On this podcast we explore many of the issues and experiences of people who have learning, or intellectual disabilities and consider some of the innovations and interventions that are helping to develop the landscape of Equal Health, Equal Lives.
All episodes contain content that is distressing, please use discretion when listening.
* Terminology- A learning, or intellectual disability is not the same as a learning difficulty such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or dyscalculia.
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