abstract Positive You is an inclusive arts project supporting learning disabled people to
explore self-esteem through art-making. The project was developed by self-advocate Leah …

Therapeutic services for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) often follow a medicalized
narrative, focusing on treatment of the individual without attending to social and political …

While the intersections of normalization and outsider art have been articulated in studio art
therapy practice with people labeled/with IDD, little attention has been given to the …

Recipe for a Good Life (2019) was an art exhibition at the Brindley in Cheshire which
explored what it means to live a “good life” to local learning disabled people. Curated by self …

My journey To writing this book began in 2010 in the unlikely surroundings of the offices of
Mencap, a British charity that supports intellectually-disabled people. I had been working …

It is understood that language is a powerful mediator of social hierarchy with great influence
to emancipate, educate or exclude. Meanwhile, discourses centred on expertise …

This study explores how theatre impacts the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. It
also aims to discover whether performers with intellectual disabilities are faced with any …