Gloucestershire’s Learning Disability Week 2023

 Mencap’s Learning Disability Week is a time to speak up and let people know what it is like to have a Learning Disability.

Learning Disability Week is a chance to educate people and raise awareness about Learning Disabilities. It is also an opportunity to campaign for fairness and an end to discrimination. Discrimination is where someone is treated differently to someone else.

Every year Learning Disability Week has a theme.

This year’s theme is Busting Myths about people with a Learning Disability, showing the incredible things that people can achieve.

Working in partnership with One Gloucestershire, this webpage will:

• Highlight a few of the amazing things that people with a Learning Disability in Gloucestershire have achieved.
• Highlight the achievements of support staff, who make sure services are accessible.
• Help to bust myths and raise awareness of the week across the county. A myth is something that is not true, but that some people think is true.
• Tell people about the things that are happening in Gloucestershire during Learning Disability Week.

Myth Busting

Watch Debbie and Tim bust a few myths about people with Learning Disabilities.

Tim is the co-chair of Gloucestershire’s Learning Disability Partnership Board. Find out more here.

Celebrating Amazing People – Our Interviews

 To celebrate Learning Disability Week 2023, two of Inclusion Gloucestershire’s Experts by Experience from the Your Voice Self-Advocacy Network, have interviewed some amazing people with a Learning Disability.

Watch theses conversations below, to find out more about their achievements.

The Power in Your Voice Podcast

Gloucestershire’s Big Health Day

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Health Films 

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