by admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Our Voice Our Stories
Susan Hanley is Senior Chair of Leep1, a self-advocacy organisation for people with learning disabilities in Leeds. She is 54, lives with her sister and family, and enjoys dogs, needlework, musicals and Midsomer Murders. She has dreams of becoming an MP and loves...
by admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Our Voice Our Stories
Mary is also celebrating her 50th birthday this year, so we thought we’d find out a little more about her life over the past five decades. Mary was born in London in 1969. She was the first of three children. Her sister Jane was born in 1972 and her brother Thomas in...
by admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Our Voice Our Stories
Written by his mum, Liz. Our second child was born on New Year’s Day in 1969 in St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth. He’s now 51. We were thrilled – we had a daughter, and now a son. But our happiness bubble popped on 2 January when we found the consultant studying the...
by admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Our Voice Our Stories
Written by Denise’s mum Jackie. We were living in very bad housing in Tooting, South West London when I gave birth to my daughter Denise on 2 March 1970. She was not diagnosed with Down’s syndrome until she was six weeks old. I had to take her to see the GP because I...
by admin | Oct 5, 2020 | Our Voice Our Stories
Written by Alison’s twin sister, Jill. Alison and I were born as twins in 1963 in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The household was already busy with five other children ranging in age from 14 months to 18 years. At that time there was no facility for Alison to attend...
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