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How Learning to Travel Independently Changes People’s Lives

April 6, 2017
We know that often an inability to travel independently is a barrier to people with learning disabilities fully participating in society, and being in control of their own lives. Because…
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Celebrating the Achievements of People with Learning Disabilities in Oxfordshire

March 23, 2017
We have been given some money from the Big Lottery Fund to celebrate the 18th birthday of our charity, My Life My Choice, this year. We will use the money…
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Transforming Care: Using Principles to Remember What is Important

March 15, 2017
In our last post, we talked about the awful treatment that people with learning disabilities can get in large hospitals, such as St Andrews Hospital, which was recently reported by…
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Why are People with Learning Disabilities Still Under Lock and Key?

March 8, 2017
We were very upset when we watched the Channel 4 Dispatches programme called Under Lock and Key. It showed people with learning disabilities and autism who had been locked away…
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What is it like to get support?

February 15, 2017
Paul gets support twice a week, mostly to help with shopping. He says that he and his wife do the cooking and cleaning by themselves. They used to get support…
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Doing what we can

January 26, 2017
Sometimes we hear about all the bad things happen to people with learning disabilities and their families. Sometimes we go to difficult meetings where the paperwork is not in easy…
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What happens if you need help having children and have a learning disability?

January 12, 2017
A member of My Life My Choice talks about his experience of trying to find out if he and his wife could start a family. He hopes that his story…
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Stingray Night Club for people with learning disabilities

December 30, 2016
20th December was our final Stingray Night Club of 2016. In 2017, the night club will be ten years old. For those people who set it up, that time has…
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