Within This Issue
The title of this latest issue has led writers to offer a range of different ideas about how to live a meaningful and engaging life, and most of all, how to have fun! We have included a range of topics from arts therapies and Intensive Interaction to holidays, enjoying music and wheelchair friendly boats. We have tried to mix articles that mainly give information about what a particular charities offer with discussions around principles or how to support living a meaningful life.
This issue includes articles on a range of topics from arts therapies and Intensive Interaction to holidays, enjoying music and wheelchair friendly boats. Two articles illustrate the Mencap Raising our Sights guides covering ‘wheelchairs’ and ‘what people do in the day’. Wheelchairs are also an important ingredient an article about Wheelyboats: boats that are wheelchair accessible. There is an account of a PAMIS Freestyles DVD that shows examples of adapted sports that can be enjoyed by people with PMLD. Chyrsalis Holidays tell us a bit about their holidays for people with PMLD. Two articles are related to the Arts: one about music and the other about dance movement therapy. Another article is about the SMILE project in Oxfordshire which offers fun activities for people with PMLD based on total communication, particularly Intensive Interaction. One teacher describes an audit of the use of the sensory room in her school, and we are given ideas for how to make the best use of multisensory environments. Another artist and teacher describes what she has gained from spending time with people with PMLD and shows how enjoyment is reciprocal. Finally, there is an obituary of Professor Jim Mansell, a key mover in learning disability policy, who had sadly passed away.
