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Covid Stories from the Learning Disability Community - Brighton & Hove Speak Out
Brighton & Hove Speak Out, have been working on a project called 'Covid Stories from the Learning Disability Community'. The project...
Nov 22, 2022
British Journal of Learning Disabilities, History Special
We have some fantastic news to share with you! A paper we wrote on the experiences of people with learning disabilities during the...
Feb 4, 2022
Happy New Year
Hello from the Surviving Through Story team, We hope you had a wonderful New Year. We wanted to provide you with a bit of an update. RIX...
Jan 27, 2022
Conference 25 November 2021
This Surviving Through Story conference was in partnership with Me and Your Stories (MYS) project. It was wonderful to see so many of you...
Dec 3, 2021
LSBU The Other One Show - A chat show hosted by people with learning disabilities
The Other One Show Thursday 16th December, 3pm – 4pm After a brilliant event earlier this year, we’re back! The Other One Show is a chat...
Nov 26, 2021
I think “Spectrum 10k, Not OK.”
Tony is a member of Generate and also works as one of our Generate Voices Coordinators. He wrote this blog post about his views on the...
Nov 2, 2021
Surviving Through Story Conference
We are having a conference! It is on Thursday 25 November 2021 from 2pm until 3.30pm. We're hosting this conference to celebrate the...
Sep 30, 2021
Craig Runs The Great North Run
Craig Hart is a member of our Advisory Board. He also recently ran the Great North Run dressed as a gorilla!
Sep 24, 2021
[Re]Focus: Exploring Unheard Voices | A Film by The Baked Bean Company
Lockdowns, loneliness and everything in between. One year on from the biggest change in our lifetime, actors at The Baked Bean Company...
Jul 5, 2021
It's Learning Disability Pride Week!
People with learning disabilities have been kept out of community life in the past. Not any more. We are going to ordinary schools with...
Jun 24, 2021
SASH Loneliness Survey
SASH are asking health professionals in London to work with clients who have LD to support them to fill out this survey above when...
Jun 24, 2021
Forgotten Left behind Overlooked: Report about children and families with SENDs in the Pandemic 2020
This report was written by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Special Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Click here to read an easy read...
May 14, 2021
George Floyd Said ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Before He Died, by Paul Christian
Disabled people should have the chance to understand and talk about the news. Just like everyone else. People often assume we don’t have...
Apr 19, 2021
Campaign about ‘do not resuscitate’ orders for Covid-19 patients with learning disabilities.
Throughout the pandemic, there have been reports of "do not resuscitate" orders being put on patients who have a learning disability,...
Apr 14, 2021
People with learning disabilities to be prioritised for the Covid-19 vaccine!
Today Public Health England confirmed that everyone on the GP learning disability register will be invited for vaccination as part of...
Feb 24, 2021
Build Back Better
We have joined the Build Back Better campaign because people with learning disabilities and autism need to be fully included in the...
Feb 12, 2021
Covid-19 Vaccinations
Harry Roche is one of our Advisory Board members and he also works for Mencap. He has this message about why people with learning...
Feb 8, 2021
Your Voice Wall
Talkback are proud to present the Your Voice Wall. Your Voice Wall has been created by people with a learning disability and/or autism...
Jan 4, 2021
Merry Christmas from the Surviving Through Story Team!
On Friday we had our last Surviving Through Story advisory board meeting - with friends, Christmas outfits, and our favourite Christmas...
Dec 14, 2020
New Mencap Report about Covid-19
Mencap have published an easy read report called "My Health, My Life: Barriers to healthcare for people with a learning disability during...
Dec 8, 2020
Learning from the COVID Crisis Talks - Easy Read
There was an SEN Policy Research Seminar on 16 November 2020. This was a really good webinar about what has happened to children with...
Dec 2, 2020
Down’s Syndrome added to clinically extremely vulnerable list
This means that they have been classed as at higher risk for coronavirus. People who are in the clinically extremely vulnerable group...
Nov 10, 2020
Launch Event Recording
Thank you to everyone who came to our launch event - it was great to see so many people! Click here to watch the recording of the event.
Oct 1, 2020
Report: Don't Ever Call Us Unskilled again!
Published on 5th August 2020 by Paradigm, “Don’t ever call us ‘unskilled’ again” is a report that brings you the voices of 118 Support...
Sep 1, 2020
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