Admittedly, before starting to study Speech and Language Therapy in September 2020 I think I had been quite ignorant to how inaccessible the world can be for people with learning disabilities and communication impairments. That’s not to say that I thought that accessibility was unimportant, but I had never been immersed in a world that needed extra support to access the world around them. I did not consider often enough how society functions mostly for those who do not need t

My name is Gareth and I’m a self- advocate. I volunteer with Total Communication Services CIC and some time ago I created the leaflet about autism - You can see it here https://753e2037-f764-4c1c-b2bf-ad4632bf81f7.filesusr.com/ugd/f5d6b4_2081dc1a1016497d9e221c65cf434821.pdf Recently I have made a short film which shows 20 core vocabulary signs . I think all care staff need to know some basic signing, just some basic idea of how to communicate would be a good start. Some peop