Radical thinking on Learning Disability - 2 September 2016

Liverpool Hope University is bringing together people with learning disabilities, families, academics and activists for a stimulating one day conference in September.

Date: Friday 2nd, September 2016
Venue: Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, L16 9JD
Cost: £10 students, people with learning disabilities and their supporters; £25 others

Speakers include:

• Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree will give the Opening Address.
• Dr Simon Duffy, Director of the Centre for Welfare Reform will speak about what citizenship means for people with learning disabilities.
• Professor Jan Walmsley, long time academic and learning disability activist will speak about the potential for unity in action between people with learning disabilities and families.
• Professor John Parrington, geneticist at Oxford University will debunk the myths connecting genetics and intelligence.
• John Hersov, an Independent advocacy consultant and facilitator from the very beginning of the UK self-advocacy movement in 1982, will reflect on how people with learning disabilities have become more skilled at saying what they need.