Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance

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Find some pockets of brilliance for your practice! Insights and inspiration from families of learning disabled people, who share their lives, challenges and wishes. Discover what s orts of help will really help the people you support.Beautifully written and absorbing, Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance shines a joyful light on the kind of good support that enables people to flourish. Sara Ryans book is a heartening exploration of the extraordinary role families play in the lives of their loved ones and reveals the benefits - for everyone - when practitioners embrace their experience and knowledge. An essential, rewarding read for anyone who cares about their fellow humans.- Saba Salman, journalist and editor of Made Possible: Stories of success by people with learning disabilities - in their own wordsThis book should become a seminal work, central to all social work training. It will teach you more in a single chapter about love, hope and uniqueness than any other core text you can hope to find.- from the foreword, Elaine James, Learning Disabilities Commissioner and Rob Mitchell, Principal Worker Show more