Positive Images of Disability

[Gavmacp]

I work with learning disability clients in a newish unit.
I have noticed that the staff have adopted the usual attitudes to this client group.
I am looking for positive images and written work such as poems that make people stop and think.

[cathfromsaron]

'service users'? ... not any more than i hate the terms residents, tenants, clients, patients, learners, students, pupils and all the other 'current' terms i am asked to use ...

[TWR]

For your Information Baldric, that was the term we had to use & was the correct term.

[cathfromsaron]

i actually used to be a group home support worker (in a mental health half-way house), and at no time were any of my 7 guys ever unwashed with dirty clothes, bored or did they ever miss day service, an appt or their meds! but i only *supported/prompted* ... i didn't do things *for* them!

we held BBQs, trips, walks and shopping trips - depending on the season and their wishes!

and we wrote notes at the end of each shift AND had at least one CSSIW inspection every year!

[Gavmacp]

I want to get people to think.
To see the client as a human being.
When people do activities (and this isn't often) they are meaningful and enrich the clients life's.
I do not want to be just another nursing home providing the same old sub standard care. I want positive change.