tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016904785776950121.post3099452961433749063..comments2023-11-03T09:43:13.487+00:00Comments on Chris Hatton's blog: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" On ordinariness and people with learning disabilitiesChris Hattonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05299821560069281510noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016904785776950121.post-40534147552611518042017-03-27T14:09:54.993+01:002017-03-27T14:09:54.993+01:00Nice Information,thanks for sharing.
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Ch...David Towell writes: Celebrating the Ordinary. <br />Chris does great work, for example through the Observatory, and writes well. I shared his previous blog ‘If it looks like a duck…’ with colleagues still involved in the struggle against institutionalisation. In this latest piece of erudition (well, not many people can get Harvey Sacks and Richard Wilkinson into the same article) I find much to agree with, but I am less keen on abandoning the ‘ordinary’ just yet! Indeed speaking up for ordinary folk, I want to assure Chris and his wife that although we may be ordinary, we can still be happy. We can also be sad. We can be excited and we can be bored. We can be sociable and we can be lonely. We can stand up for ourselves and we can sometimes accept too readily the world’s injustices. Indeed an ordinary life for us is a daily roller-coaster of different feelings and activities shaped by the everyday situations we find ourselves in. We ordinary folk live our lives in technicolour, not at all the black-and-white sameness which seems to inform Chris’s perspective, captured in the provocative title for this blog. Indeed, when I use the phrase ‘An Ordinary Life’ (AOL) these days, I often add ‘in all its richness and diversity.<br />But let’s go back a little. Chris is right: we originally formulated AOL in an effort to express in plain language an alternative to the institutional services which dominated public provision 30 years ago and mobilise a national movement for change. The distinguished journalist Ann Shearer helped us with the first King’s Fund publication in the AOL series. She wrote ‘Our goal is to see mentally handicapped people {This was 1980} in the mainstream of life, living in ordinary houses in ordinary streets, with the same range of choices as any citizen, and mixing with other, and mostly not handicapped, members of their own community.’ I was there when we hit on ‘An Ordinary Life’ as the slogan for this intent.<br />Looking at the selection of national statistics Chris summarises, I am tempted to think that a new generation of reformers might see the need to refresh the AOL vision. Certainly they wouldn’t characterise this significant body of evidence for discrimination and disadvantage as what constitutes ordinary living, as Chris seems to do, nor accept these experiences of people with learning disabilities as somehow inevitable. <br />Indeed this renewal is what is happening. For example, the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities uses AOL as the title for its initiative to improve the lives of children dependent on medical technology. I think they want to say these children are children first – and need to live, learn and play like other children despite their health challenges. Or to take another example, the new Housing and Support Alliance is currently encouraging ways of ‘Investing in Ordinary Lives’ to widen access to the housing market for people with learning disabilities. And the development agency, Paradigm, is facilitating a national programme designed to improve support to people with learning disabilities under the title ‘Ensuring An Ordinary Life For All’.<br />Far from ‘making people…knuckle down’ to ordinariness, the people with learning disabilities I have met through this Paradigm initiative seem keen to ‘opt in’ to the ordinary practices of growing up in families, going to the same schools as other kids in the neighbourhood, having friendships and relationships, and as adults getting the chance to offer their gifts to their communities and being full participants in the roller-coaster of ordinary living I describe above.<br />I agree with Chris however that this can only be achieved for many more people as part of the much wider struggle to build more egalitarian communities which welcome diversity, promote inclusion and learn to live in better harmony with our planet. This struggle needs to be part of an ordinary life for us all.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016904785776950121.post-32967455731912035802014-01-20T21:13:09.613+00:002014-01-20T21:13:09.613+00:00Thank you Hayley. Yes, enjoying the variety can be...Thank you Hayley. Yes, enjoying the variety can be a good thing for us all I think.Chris Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299821560069281510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016904785776950121.post-83018910203641188742014-01-19T22:24:53.977+00:002014-01-19T22:24:53.977+00:00Yes, inclusion is a two-way street and the sooner ...Yes, inclusion is a two-way street and the sooner we see narratives inclusing those with learning disabilities all around us, the sooner we can accept the wide variety that is 'ordinariness'. Great article, thank you. Downs Side Uphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12806066168756340802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016904785776950121.post-51894899180964189562014-01-13T14:33:27.782+00:002014-01-13T14:33:27.782+00:00Thanks Richard. As ever, you ask an excellent ques...Thanks Richard. As ever, you ask an excellent question. Agree partly that inclusion is about states of mind, but think there are also broader economic dimensions that create the conditions where inclusion becomes more or less possible, and where inclusion is not seen as one-way traffic (an inclusive society is better for everyone).Chris Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05299821560069281510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1016904785776950121.post-52311522852289445702014-01-13T08:48:52.122+00:002014-01-13T08:48:52.122+00:00Like it Chris. Always been uncomfortable with wish...Like it Chris. Always been uncomfortable with wishing ordinary on people when this may seem more like a license to lower expectations and effort by others. Key question is then what is inclusion? A state of mind perhaps?ProfHastingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17961738273216388538noreply@blogger.com