Dr Dawn Cavanagh @Dawn26467771 Twitter profile

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

6 months

We are tired of the @WelshGovernment telling us that we are unique cases and therefore not worthy of their time. We at Stolen Lives believe that every person - and every family-matters. And we believe in Homes, not Hospitals.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

We celebrated my Dad's 70th birthday over zoom. We had so much wanted to be together for this event, especially as my Mum was dying of cancer. I can't even begin to tell you how angry I am. #DowningStreet #CarrieAntoinette

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

10 months

Children in need become adults in need. I wish people would care about my adult disabled son as much as they cared about him when he was a child. He is in such need. #BBCCiN

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

In a week when George Webster became the first CBeebies presenter with Down's Syndrome the court decided that it was quite alright to abort babies with Down Syndrome up to birth. One step forward, many steps back. Thanks for that.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

Seeing the autism community come together against Spectrum 10k makes me feel proud. Feel a bit sad by the NT silence that pervades Twitter, esp among those who work within the field.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

It's 9 years today since BBC Panorama exposed abuse at Winterbourne and nothing has changed. We continue to fail the many people with a LD and/or autism living in inpatient units. It's all talk, empty promises and no action. We really should be ashamed.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

Jack was one of the ones that we hear less about, the 'came close, 'the almost died.' Months on, he is still recovering and I continue to fight on his behalf with the ongoing investigation all because he received poor quality care due to his LD.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

8 months

Been given permission to post this. Posted today. Why is this still happening? So much work still needed to be done with GPs in Wales. @ImprovementCym @Paulriddfound

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

6 months

Erasing disabled children, denying them their past...how hurtful and deeply discriminatory is this.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

6 months

Parents offered class photo with no 'complex needs' pupils

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

10 months

@PauletteHamilto My son is trapped in a mental health hospital (not because he has a mental health condition) but because of a lack of appropriate care, support and housing in the community. Thanks for that. Absolutely shameful!

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

BBC news reporter has just spoken to a 15 year old girl who has crossed into Poland with her brother who has a learning disability. Their parents are still in Ukraine 😢

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 months

This #LearningDisabilityWeek #StolenLives (Wales) asks you not to forget our locked up children. Homes not Hospitals Don't you forget about me? 'He loves his cat and misses it terribly.' @JBryantWales @hef4caerphilly @WelshGovernment

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

Ten years on...remembering Connor Sparrowhawk who died an avoidable death on July 4th 2013. Known as Laughing Boy or LB.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 months

Imagine hating disabled people so much, that with your last dying breath, you give them one final punch on your way out @Conservatives

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 years

@jeremycorbyn My son won't be receiving any GCSE results today due his LD. This doesn't mean that he hasn't achieved in the last two years. It's such a shame that there is no way of formally marking his achievement. This must change.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

We even had Welsh actors coming out to support us yesterday. Thank you, Owen Teale, best known for his role as Ser Alliser Thorne in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones. #StolenLIves

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

7 months

When you are talking about how to deal with them, you are already on the path to the gas chamber. That is how serious this is.

Elissa Noves

@ElissaNoves

7 months

Cllr Hammersley responds to being told that children with SEND were institutionalised with "they must have had better ways of dealing with them. Let's go back to some of those ways"

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

Just been on to the phone to a learning disability liaison nurse (can't say what about), but I can say that they are doing a great job right now in extremely difficult times.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

It is really important that as many people as possible sign this petition. So, Please Sign The Petition-Doesn't take long. Thank you. Petition: Stop the detention of learning-disabled and autistic children, young people and adults in hospitals.

Petition: Stop the detention of learning disabled and autistic children, young people and adults in...

There are people with learning disabilities and/or autism from Wales who are living in hospitals. This is a human rights scandal which has been ignored for too long. Many people with learning...

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

6 months

One of the last things my Grandad with Parkinson’s dementia said to me after making me laugh was ‘I will never be dead while you are alive’. He meant that love never dies and ties us to each other. I believe you have this advert wrong.

Alzheimer's Society

@alzheimerssoc

6 months

We'll be there for you. Again, and again, and again 💙

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

@MeakinMiss The intention is lovely. However, with my autism I would really struggle with that.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

Look-This is how you do it. An accessible vaccine clinic for people with learning disabilities.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

My beautiful mum, Lynne (age 68 years), passed away in the early hours of the morning after her long journey with cancer came to an end. I am so going to miss her.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

Matthew Parris’ Nazi ‘life unworthy of life’ views should strike terror into the hearts of us all.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

7 months

People with learning disabilities already live in mini institutions in the community where they are warehoused, confined, coerced, controlled and then there are those locked away in hospitals. Let’s not pretend it’s not already happening.

Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

7 months

Here’s the moral of the victorious campaign to stop disabled people being institutionalised: resistance is not futile. My @guardian col. on Bristol council’s u-turn and holding onto hope (and fury).

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

10 months

When people know shit all about people with learning disabilities their ignorance so often leads to discrimination as per below ⬇️

Paulette Hamilton MP

@PauletteHamilto

10 months

🚨 Harrison Road planning application REJECTED I supported local residents in opposing this proposal, as it would have caused increased noise, parking, and a change in the character of the property, which would have negatively affected the area. Read my letter in full 👇🏿

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

10 months

Thank you so much for writing this @ianbirrell . The silence from @UKLabour , the media and LD and disabled charities hurts, especially when you have a son with a LD locked away in a hospital due to a lack of appropriate support and homes in the community.

Ian Birrell

@ianbirrell

10 months

When a Labour MP celebrates blocking five homes for people with learning disabilities on the basis they would undermine community cohesion, what hope is there of ever seeing such citizens embraced in the heart of our society? My @theipaper column

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

2 years

Passed my viva today. Thank you to @NorthwayRuth @LastDaysoflifeR for being wonderful supervisors, to @KESS_USW and @MencapCymru . There are so many to thank...thank you all. What a journey!

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

My friend's young LD disabled son has just come out of hospital after 9 weeks of fighting Covid-19. He is still on the road to recovery, but this is truly great news...😀

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

It’s one year since J was sectioned. It was the worst day of my life. Recently, it has felt like I have been reliving it. I have nightmares, flashbacks, I break down in tears. I will be glad when July is over.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

Meeting with @hef4caerphilly and @davidabbottbris and @griffiths_janis to discuss unlawful and avoidable sectioning of people with LD and/or autism, and the lack of suitable provision which can lead to people becoming locked up and kept it in hospitals.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

Thank you so much @Saba_Salman 'My fear is he'll never come home': the learning disabled people locked away in lockdown

'My fear is he'll never come home': the learning disabled people locked away in lockdown

Nine years on from the Winterbourne View scandal, thousands are still in secure units, and Covid has increased the use of restraint and isolation

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

@AbbeyHeffer Whatever your views on the monarchy this is wrong. People have the right to peacefully protest.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

I attended the Chief Social Care Officer for Wales listening session for unpaid carers this afternoon. It was thoroughly depressing. Stories were heartbreaking, with carers literally on the edge. Support had been reduced or taken away altogether.😭

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

8 months

These figures don’t include private hospitals and it is hard to know just how many incidents go unreported. People with learning disabilities, for example, may be less likely to report.

Rebecca Thomas

@Rebeccasmt

8 months

Revealed: The sex abuse scandal that shames our NHS w/ @MulhernRobert

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

2 years

I so love my son...he will always keep me grounded Me: So yeah, Mum's a Dr now Jack: So where's your tardis? Me: Well, I don't get a tardis Jack: What? What kind of Dr is that? Borrrrrrring!😂

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

Jack went to the hospital today for a minor procedure and did really well because reasonable adjustments were put in place and because he was supported well by his staff. It's so lovely to report a good news story. 😀

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 months

My one abiding memory of visiting Parliament was seeing @KeeleyMP stand up and highlight (yet again) the scandal of locking up people with LD and/or autism in hospitals. So alone; yet unwavering in her convictions and fight. What a loss to our cause. #StolenLives

Baroness Keeley of Worsley

@KeeleyMP

4 months

A personal update from me:

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

6 months

It is simply barbaric to lock up people with learning disabilities because there isn't adequate care to support their needs. Shame on Wales. @WelshGovernment @JulieMorganLAB @JaneHutt @lynne_neagle

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

2 years

That is the second time I have read a document that states that my son received support from social services and/or was placed in residential care because 'his parents worked full-time.' I find such comments deeply offensive and upsetting.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 months

This #LearningDisabilityWeek #StolenLives (Wales) will be sharing pictures of our locked up children. You cannot be seen, heard or feel valued when you are locked away. We want homes, not hospitals. 'He loved going on holidays.'

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 months

I am not a fan of #LearningDisabilityWeek for a number of reasons. You cannot be seen, heard and valued when you are locked away. You are non-existent. Everything stolen. That is the message of our #StolenLives campaign this week.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

@RoseUnwin Nothing but challenging behaviour our Jack

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

@DrFrancesRyan There’s been an increased drip, drip of anti-disabled/benefit claimants articles of late. It’s very concerning.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

10 months

Tonight was the first meeting of Stolen Lives, a group of families who have come together to fight mental health injustices affecting people with learning disabilities and/or autism in Wales. Watch this space.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

Sad news re the death of Tommy Pilling from covid. I know many will focus on Tommy and Maryanne being the UK's first couple with DS to marry, but hopefully one day we won't be speaking about 'DS Syndrome marriages' at all, just people in love.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

@DrFrancesRyan @josierones Disappointing. A missed opportunity to also interview those people with learning disabilities and their families on why they take issue with the documentary's title.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

Well done to all those who fought to get people with learning disabilities prioritised for vaccination up and down the UK. And let's not forget that people with learning disabilities themselves were a key part of this fight.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

Another bank holiday weekend where my learning disabled son continues to suffer in his PICU prison because of a lack of suitable community provision. Shame on you @HywelDdaHB @PrifWeinidog #FreeJC

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

People at an anti-racism demonstration in Cardiff in the 1970s and people at the #BlackLivesMatter protest in #Cardiff today

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

11 months

On my way back from the Senedd Talking about unlawful and/or avoidable sectioning of people with learning disabilities in Wales with @MarkIsherwoodMS , Alex Still (senior advisor to @hef4caerphilly ), @NorthwayRuth @griffiths_janis . Thanks to @davidabbottbris

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

7 months

We are tired of the @WelshGovernment telling us that we are unique cases and therefore not worthy of their time. We at Stolen Lives believe that every person - and every family-matters. And we believe in Homes, not Hospitals.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

NSC 'are confident it is an isolated incident.' I wouldn't be so confident, especially as your staff witnessed this abuse and allowed it to go on for more than a year. It took a carer visiting from another residence to report it. @TheNationalStar

York Disability Week

@YorkDisability

1 year

Two carers tormented a student at a residential college for disabled people by repeatedly pausing films he was watching @TheNationalStar

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

10 months

Sick of the benefit claimants bashing. This from a LBC caller just now ‘If they have mental health issues just let them go to institutes (meaninginstitutions)…Bloody hell and no challenge @LBC @NickFerrariLBC

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

Failing to provide people with learning disabilities and their families with the support they need can actually cost lives. It cost the life of Sammy.

GeorgeJulian

@GeorgeJulian

3 years

Hello tweeps, i'm just swinging by to let you know that the inquest into the death of Sammy Alban Stanley starts tomorrow at Kent Coroners Court. I'll be live tweeting on @SammyInquest . Please let me introduce you to Sammy 1/

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

1) As well as shining a light (again) on the inhumane way in which we treat people with autism and/or LD, patient A's story (told in the Sunday Times) has also shone a light on how far we need to progress regarding public attitudes towards people with

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

8 months

@BBCMBuchanan This is all too commonplace. We families of people with learning disabilities live in constant fear. No one seems to care.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

10 months

I have autism, as do three members of my family. I have the pleasure of knowing and working with many compassionate, wonderful people with autism. This is not nice.

Allison Pearson

@AllisonPearson

10 months

Lockdown was the brainchild of a bunch of men on the spectrum. They lacked the emotional intelligence to feel or anticipate the appalling consequences of criminalising human contact. They still have the gall to claim it was the right plan. My column: The Covid Inquiry gets

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

Thank you Sioned for raising this and for mentioning the protest . Can we also do something about the awful merging of mental health hospital provision with specialist LD inpatient provision. @Llais_Wales

Sioned Williams AS/MS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@Sioned_W

5 months

Learning disability is not a mental health issue. Yet the new First Minister included learning disabilities under the portfolio for mental health. This must be addressed without delay, and I explained why today in the Senedd. @LdWales @MencapCymru @DisabilityWales @AllWalesPF

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

11 months

Delighted to be joining the @RightfulLives team.

Rightful Lives

@RightfulLives

11 months

Exciting announcement!

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

I gave evidence to the CYPE (Welsh Gov) inquiry today - Do disabled children and young people have equal access to education and childcare? I am shattered

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

There are people with learning disabilities and/or autism from Wales who are living in hospitals. This is a human rights scandal which has been ignored for too long. Please sign and share our petition. #StolenLiveshttps

Petition: Stop the detention of learning disabled and autistic children, young people and adults in...

There are people with learning disabilities and/or autism from Wales who are living in hospitals. This is a human rights scandal which has been ignored for too long. Many people with learning...

petitions.senedd.wales

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

11 months

Still can’t believe I am working among giants like Sara Ryan 😊

Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met

@LearningMet

11 months

Day 7, meet the team and Sara Ryan, social care Prof and @LearningMet lead. Sara’s working on various @NIHRresearch funded projects including @OlderAhead and @SpinPlatesCare . 1/2

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

6 years

People with learning disabilities face gross inequality in life and death

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

What? You’re autistic and married? Yes, 19 happy years today. I love my card, esp the line ‘ I love you to Paradise Falls and back’ (inside)

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

6 years

It's bereaved parents like @PaulaMc007 who despite their suffering and loss fight on, and in so doing help to ensure that young people like my son receive the care and protection that they are entitled to.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

May Laughing Boy shine a light on both the past and the present, and the endless, ongoing fight for justice❤️ @sarasiobhan @RoseUnwin #StolenLives

Prof Ryan

@sarasiobhan

5 months

Shoes on, takeaway coffee for the train and Laughing Boy here we come. ❤️

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@Dawn26467771

5 years

The community nurse and dentist came to the house today instead of Jack having to go to the hospital. The dentist herself couldn't believe the difference...just a little bit of preparation/reasonable adjustments and it was like being with a different boy. 😀

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 years

Read through my son's new healthcare plan this morning and it states that 'he has mental health issues because he is grieving.' What?? When are we going to stop pathologizing/medicalising grief in people with LD? It's only natural that he should mourn the loss of those he loves.

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@Dawn26467771

6 months

“When you're not perceived by other people and your social needs are so deprived…you don’t actually know you exist” @AQuinnUnbroken is such a powerful advocate, but it must be mentally exhausting having to continually revisit your own trauma.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

6 months

“When you're not perceived by other people and your social needs are so deprived…you don’t actually know you exist” Alexis Quinn who was held for 3 years in a mental health facility due to her autism speaks to @vicderbyshire about her experience. #newsnight

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

Jack would tell you that this is not what living with a LD is like. Whatever role people here play in achieving a fairer and more inclusive society for people with LD should not detract from the wide-ranging change that is needed to ensure equal opportunities for all.

Mencap

@mencap_charity

3 years

Meet the #MencapMythBusters . 👋 18 people who will show the world what living with a #LearningDisability is like. 👍 Ambassadors who want to challenge wrong ideas. 🙅‍♀️ Activists who will campaign for change. 🙌 Listen. 📣 Ask. 🙋‍♀️ Learn. ❤️ 👈

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3 years

@Dienekes_ When we finally saw our son, who has a learning disability, after 15 weeks and 1 day of being apart, we were told that we would have to dress in PPE and no touching. When my son saw me and ran in for a hug I hugged him.

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@Dawn26467771

6 months

And what new hell is this?

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

6 months

'Being singled out for being different has a big psychological effect on our children' Actor Sally Phillips spoke to #BBCBreakfast after her son Olly, who has Down's Syndrome, was prevented from entering a trampoline park without a letter from a GP

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@Dawn26467771

11 months

@knitteronwheels @marksandspencer And the Equality Act?

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

It says something about how people with learning disabilities and/or autism are treated when you are struggling to keep up with and retweet all the shitty stories coming out.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

Huw's mum Karen highlights the challenges when a young person has LD and autism, and issues like constipation are attributed to their behaviours rather than being assessed for an underlying health condition.

Huw's story - ERIC

Home > Help for you > Your stories

eric.org.uk

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

6 months

And repeat:

People with learning disabilities ‘dying too young and from preventable causes’

The Nuffield Trust is calling for health checks and screening to be made more accessible to people with learning disabilities.

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

6 months

Great day in Blackpool with #SelfAdvocacyWorks with @sarasiobhan and Prof Chris Hatton. Great to meet my fantastic co-researcher @firstmcr Nemo. Thank you to all the people who took the time to speak with me about learning disability research and other issues.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 years

We need more investigative journalism like this and I hope we see more as we go into 2022. We must not stop until the inhumane treatment of autistic and/or LD people has ended.

Times Politics

@timespolitics

3 years

Read the full investigation by @DavidCollinsST 👇

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

2 years

What a brilliant take on the Kay Burley interview.

Matt Green

@mattgreencomedy

2 years

Rail strikes!

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@Dawn26467771

4 years

People with an intellectual disability should be prioritised for vaccination -

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

2 years

Had a genuine apology from a professional today regarding my son. It was very much appreciated.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

Just been talking with my Dad. He is 73 with progressive multiple sclerosis. He has been on strike, but next week will be his first protest. He will be bringing a chair because he can’t stand for long. He is making his placard tomorrow. #StolenLives

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

8 months

Another case of horrific abuse of people with learning disabilities. How many more are going undetected? @CareQualityComm

Oliver Lewis

@DrOliverLewis

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Three carers have been jailed after being convicted of abusing care home residents with learning disabilities in south London.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

1) We would very much like to thank the organisations who will be supporting us next week for our Stolen Lives protest: They are: @LdWales @MencapCymru @AllWalesPF @AllWalesForum @DisabilityWales @Paulriddfound @CarmsPF @CardiffPF @RCTPeopleFirst @VoicesWales @ParentsFed

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@Dawn26467771

3 months

Day 3 #LearningDisabilityWeek #StolenLives Wales Homes, not hospitals 'The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, Of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.' M.A. 'He likes to be free like a bird.'

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@Dawn26467771

3 months

Day 4 #LearningDisabilityWeek #StolenLives Wales Homes, not hospitals In denying our loves ones a home, their human rights have been violated. Living and leading a normal life simply stolen!

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 months

1) Met with Jayne Bryant today, Minister for Mental Health and Early Years on behalf of #StolenLives . Thank you so much to @Sioned_W for organising the meeting as chair of the Cross-Party LD Group. Thank you @JoePowellAWPF @davidabbottbris @griffiths_janis for your support and

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

8 months

Difficult week with Jack being unwell, worrying NEWS scores, and fighting on a serious issue that is impacting Jack’s quality of life. And feeling like things are terribly shitty and exhausted families are doing all the fighting.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

2 months

Great to see the #StolenLivesProtest on the front cover of the next edition of @CommLivingMag_ But even better that it is people with learning disabilities who take centre stage. That is how it should be.

Community Living Magazine

@CommLivingMag_

2 months

What's new later this week apart from a new govt? Our new edition! We cover what the national priorities should be, how the summer of sport can be more inclusive and lots more, live here from Friday:

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

Oh how amazing is this. Vale People First will also be joining us and look at these fantastic placards. Great chanting. See you there! 👏

Vale People First

@ValePeople1st

5 months

We are also joining the Homes Not Hospitals protest tomorrow alongside @AllWalesPF @CardiffPF @CaerphillyFirst @LdWales to have our voices heard #learningdisability #valepeoplefirst #ourvoices #Disability

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

7 months

@fesshole And don’t abuse patients.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

Jack just telephoned... the first time he has done that in months. He said, 'Mummy, it is scary where I am, scary place.' 😭

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

Remembering Ayla. A beautiful, young autistic woman from Wales who loved her horses and who was so badly failed by the mental health system.

Jane Haines

@CJaneHaines

5 months

2nd anniversary. You died on 20th April 2022 at 22.22. Among your returned belongings one random playing card, the 2 of hearts. Be at Peace x #Ayla #Grief #AutismNotPD #PdInTheBin

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 months

@adamfare1996 It greatly concerns me that there are so many people with autism or with learning disabilities and autism locked up in hospitals. It suggests we are failing people with autism and I would like to see research that aims to understand and address this issue.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

3 months

Day 5 #LearningDisabilityWeek #StolenLives Wales Homes, not hospitals 'See how they should be living.'

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

5 months

1. Late to the post-protest party (I crashed afterwards)...BUT what an amazing day. What an incredible turnout. Thank you so much, everyone. You should all be so proud.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 years

@VoyageCEO My son is at a secure residential facility. I shall be asking if they have been approached in the same way.

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

4 months

Many people with learning disabilities and/or autism from Wales are trapped in hospitals due to a lack of appropriate housing and support in their community. Please sign and share our petition.

Petition: Stop the detention of learning disabled and autistic children, young people and adults in...

There are people with learning disabilities and/or autism from Wales who are living in hospitals. This is a human rights scandal which has been ignored for too long. Many people with learning...

petitions.senedd.wales

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Dr Dawn Cavanagh

@Dawn26467771

1 year

This is literally the price that people with learning disabilities and their families have to pay when people with learning disabilities are locked up in hospitals miles and miles away from their family home. @BIHRhumanrights #article8

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