Understanding and Promoting Access for People with Learning Difficulties - Seeing the Opportunities and Challenges of Risk

The issue of access is at the forefront of the practical challenges facing people with learning difficulties and people working with or supporting them. This engaging text brings together evidence, narratives and discussions that question and advance our understanding of the concept of access for people with learning difficulties. Seale and Nind draw on their expertise to analyse a wide range of situations, including access to public spaces, citizenship education, community participation, and employment.

Through a series of related chapters, key researchers in the field of inclusion and learning difficulties enrich the access debate by:

• considering what kind of access people with learning difficulties want;
• identifying effective practice in relation to facilitating and promoting access;
• revealing the capability of people with learning difficulties to seek and achieve access to potentially exclusionary communi