1. Intellectual Disability: Roy McConkey, University of Ulster Nurturing Relationships and Community

2. Biology Deficit Psychology Services Abnormality of disability

3. Social Exclusion  Most attend special schools or units (84%)  Most have no productive work (85%)  Most live in congregated settings (92%)  Most never marry or have a sexual partner (95%)

4. First generation SegregationSegregation SpecialismsSpecialisms AffluenceAffluence ‘The service world’ First generation SegregationSegregation SpecialismsSpecialisms AffluenceAffluence ‘The service world’ ProceduresProcedures RoutinesRoutines RolesRoles ControlControl RationingRationing ProceduresProcedures RoutinesRoutines RolesRoles ControlControl RationingRationing

5. First generation SegregationSegregation SpecialismsSpecialisms AffluenceAffluence ‘The service world’ Second generation Value for moneyValue for money Social inclusionSocial inclusion Equality of OpportunityEquality of Opportunity ‘An ordinary life’

6. People with diff-ability? Wendy Lawson

7. towards viewing persons with disabilities as "subjects" with rights, who are capable of claiming those rights and making decisions for their lives … as well as being active members of society” Conventions on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN 2007) “the movement from viewing persons with disabilities as "objects" of charity, medical treatment and social protection ….

8. Society Communities Family Friends Active members of society

9. International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) “Disability is not something that only happens to a minority of humanity. The ICF ‘mainstreams’ the experience of disability and recognises it as a universal human experience.”

10. Loneliness Unemployment Poverty Disabling conditions Dependency Bullying Despair

11. Creating Lifestyles Work Education Housing Leisure Health Relationships Transport Participation

12. Essential reading …for those of us committed to the respect, acceptance and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, and for anyone who works to promote the potential and self- determination of all of us! Tim Shriver CEO Special Olympics

13. Supportive services  Routines  Procedures  Roles  Control  Rationing PersonalPersonal FlexibleFlexible RelationshipsRelationships ResponsiveResponsive CreativeCreative

14. MutualGainsMutualGains Providing stability PromotingdevelopmentPromotingdevelopment ReliableAllyReliableAlly Nature of the relationship Trust Listener Adviser Forgiving Insightful Trust Listener Adviser Forgiving Insightful

15. Support Strategies Personal supporterPersonal supporter Individualised fundingIndividualised funding Circle of supportCircle of support Community resourcesCommunity resources

16. Value for moneyValue for money Social inclusionSocial inclusion Equality of opportunityEquality of opportunity ‘An ordinary life’

17. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time”.

18. r.mcconkey@ulster.ac.uk