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Speaking Up for people with Learning Disabilities

Speaking Up supports people with learning difficulties to use their voice and take action in their lives so that they can be active members of their local community.

We do this in these 3 ways:

1. We provide advocacy services for people with learning difficulties. Sometimes this is for people who are in hospital. Sometimes this is for people in the community.

Our advocates listen to what people with learning difficulties want and support them to speak up about what matters to them.

Click here to search for an advocacy service near you.

2. We run projects which people with learning difficulties can get involved with. These projects are:.

The Cambridgeshire Parliament

The Cambridgeshire Parliament is a forum for people with learning difficulties. We run it like the Parliament in Westminster. Our MPs all have learning difficulties and they are elected by the people with learning difficulties that they represent.

They have regular meetings where the MPs tell professionals what needs to change to make services better for people with learning difficulties.

Click here to find out more about The Cambridgeshire Parliament..

Next Steps

Next Steps supports people with learning difficulties to gain more confidence and learn life skills. It does this through workshops and skills programs on things like travel skills, getting a job and confidence building.

People on the Next Steps courses also have one to one coaching to make sure they are learning what is right for them.

Click here here for more information on Next Steps.

Young People Speaking Up

Young People Speaking Up supports young people with learning difficulties to feel more confident about speaking up. It has different kinds of projects, that include working with young people in schools, advocacy and self-advocacy.

It also has projects and workshops on getting social skills, learning to be a trainer, and getting your voice heard.

Click here here for more information about Young People Speaking Up.

3.We have products and services that people with learning difficulties can buy:

Consultancy and Training

Speaking Up have a team of trainers with learning difficulties who run accessible training sessions for people with learning difficulties. Training that we have done in the past includes:

• How to take part in meetings
• How to be a good trustee
• The Disability Equality Duty
• The Mental Capacity Act
• How to be involved in job interviews

Click here for more information about our accessible training or e-mail John.Woodhouse@speakingup.org

Publications and Resources for people with learning disabilities

We write booklets for people with learning difficulties to help them get the right information about things that are important to them.

The booklets are written in easy-read by a team of people with learning difficulties and have pictures and coloured sections so they are easy to use.

Some of the booklets are:

• Moving - about moving house
• My Choice - about making your own choices
• Sex and Sexuality - about relationships, body parts and sex
• Keeping Yourself Clean - about personal hygiene
• When Someone Dies - about how you feel when someone dies

Click here for more information on the booklets or e-mail carla.manning@speakingup.org

Click here to go to our accessible website

Click here to find more useful stuff on our website and links to other pages for people with learning difficulties.

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