Giving people with learning difficulties power through research
Disabled people, older people and people with learning difficulties say that they want to be involved in research about their lives.
Research is when you find things out.
The Toronto Group is a group of people who talk about giving to people with learning difficulties and other service users power through research.
The Toronto group includes people who do research, people with learning difficulties and other service users as well as people who pay for research.
The group had 4 special meetings.
This what they found out:
There are some good ways of involving people with learning difficulties and other service users in research.
Some researchers do not involve people with learning difficulties properly.
People with learning difficulties need to be involved right at the start of research about their lives. They can be involved at all the stages of the project.
People with learning difficulties and other service users need to have a say in all the decisions about their lives.
