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lucy-list-digest       Monday, November 24 2003       Volume 05 : Number 227



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Re: [lucy-list] NLC: Re: teachers

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 14:30:40 EST
From: BrainCC@aol.com
Subject: Re: [lucy-list] NLC: Re: teachers

Picking up on Kelli's point about the Learning Disability sector...I work in 
the UK with adults with LD and we can see what our teachers have tried to do 
to help/educate, and we appreciate it greatly.
But once those school/college days are over and our service users become 
adults, it's an absolute lottery as to what funding and support they can obtain, 
so no matter how hard the teachers and assistants have tried, a lot of their 
work can be lost in the years after school.
The teachers should be treated and paid better and the service users, for 
whom we're supposed to be focusing on 'person centred planning', also need a 
fairer crack of the financial whip.
Only problem is...where will the money come from?
We also need to heighten public awareness of the challenges our LD sector 
faces...Clifford T Ward did it brilliantly in the 70s with the amazingly moving 
'For Debbie and Her Friends', I wonder if Lucy or Dar feel like taking up the 
challenge for the 'noughties'?
Brian, from a very damp Sussex wood

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