The Power in Your Voice
By Your Voice
Find out more about their work here: www.yourvoicenetwork.org
The Power in Your VoiceApr 11, 2023
Christmas with a disability
Listen to Cody and Kayleigh talk about what Christmas can be like when you have a learning disability. There is a lot about Christmas that is great fun, but have you considered what might be challenging for disabled people at this time? What about people who experience sensory overwhelm or those who live in supported living but don't have family to visit?
You might be surprised about what can be difficult at this time of year. Make sure you listen until the end for a little treat!
Being neurodiverse
Kayleigh welcomes her colleague Sammy for a lively chat about their experiences of being neurodiverse. They discuss their similar sensory sensitivities, how reasonable adjustments have affected their school and work lives and what day to day life is like with dyspraxia and autism.
Women and body image
Do women with a learning disability feel the same pressures as other women do to look good? Kayleigh and Cody discuss this important question and talk about how they express their personalities through their hair, make up and clothes.
They talk about the things that can get in the way of having good body image such as not having Easy Read on hair dye packets or having to rely on other people to help you look your best.
Let us know what your thoughts are by commenting or sending an email to yourvoice@inclusion-glos.org
Learning Disability Week
This week Kayleigh and Cody are celebrating the achievements of people with learning disabilities to mark Learning Disability Week 2023. Listen as they talk about what they have achieved and how other people in the Your Voice network are role models through achieving things such as winning medals for skiing, passing exams and even being a manager.
Kayleigh talks passionately about the fight to be able to bring up her daughter and Cody tells us about people in the public eye who challenge beliefs about people with learning disabilities such as George Webster on Strictly Come Dancing and the drag troupe Drag Syndrome. And they also remind us to recognise the achievements of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.
Episode one: Making meetings accessible for people with learning disabilities
In the first episode of 'The Power in Your Voice', Kayleigh and Cody talk about the things they enjoy and the things they find frustrating about meetings.
Listen to them describe how they make the meetings they run as part of the Your Voice network accessible to people with learning disabilities. And hear about the impact on them when meetings are inaccessible and run in a way that suits other people.
Kayleigh and Cody run the learning disability side of the Your Voice network. Your Voice is a network of self advocacy groups across the South West of England who come together to support each other, share experiences and challenge discrimination. There are two networks, one for people with a learning disability and another one for neurodiverse people run by Sammy.
Find out more about their work here: www.yourvoicenetwork.org