All About Us!: The Story of People with a Learning Disability and Mencap

Rix, Brian

ISBN 10: 0855370971 / ISBN 13: 9780855370978

Editore: Mencap Publications, 2006

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• Titolo: All About Us!: The Story of People with a Learning Disability and Mencap
• Editore: Mencap Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0855370971
• ISBN 13: 9780855370978
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 1,631 libbre

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Includes free accessible dvd. ALL ABOUT US! The story of people with a learning disability and Mencap In this remarkable 448 page book Brian Rix (Lord Rix, President of the Royal Mencap Society) describes the history of people with a learning disability throughout the centuries and provides a comprehensive diary of all the work undertaken by Mencap since its formation as the Association of Parents of Backward Children some 60 years ago in 1946. He is assisted by many others, both with and without a learning disability. There are no less than 52 parents, siblings, carers, professionals, parliamentarians, Mencap honorary officers and members of staff writing about their various experiences whilst 32 people with a learning disability add their memories, their current hopes and future ambitions. Contributions includes a foreword from our patron, HRH The Countess of Wessex, comments from Mencap s celebrity ambassadors and an afterpiece by another parent, David Cameron. The book includes the thoughts of Chairman Brian Baldock and a brief biography of Mencap s three presidents, Lord Renton, Lord Allen of Abbeyvale and currently, Lord Rix. It discusses Mencap s initiatives including families, healthcare, profound and multiple learning disability, Mencap s political work at Westminster and includes a learning disability timeline - a history of legislation on learning disability. Each book also comes with an interactive dvd for people who might have difficulty reading the book itself. This fascinating book will be launched in November 2006 and ensures that the struggles and successes of people with a learning disability, their parents and carers over the years, will be chronicled and readily available for generations to come. The books, both hardback and softback, are beautifully produced with 24 pages of illustrations, 8 of them in colour. The proceeds go to benefit Mencap and its vitally important work.

L'autore

Brian Rix was born in Yorkshire, the son of a Hull ship-owner. Before serving in the RAF during World War II, he became an actor and on demobilisation in 1947 formed his own theatre company. For thirty years he was an actor-manager, presenting hugely popular farces at the Whitehall and Garrick Theatres, as well as over seventy on BBC television and twelve on film. Lord Rix's involvement with the Royal Mencap Society (as it is now) began in the late 1950s when he became Chairman of the Special Functions Committee of the National Society for Mentally Handicapped Children (as it was then). In 1980 he retired from the theatre and became Mencap's Secretary-General, in 1988 Mencap's Chairman and in 1998 the Society's President. He has worked tirelessly for the Society over many years and is now deeply involved in the House of Lords with all the legislation affecting the lives of people with a learning disability and their families. Since 1997 he has been Chancellor of the University of East London where the Rix Centre develops teaching, learning, research and multimedia projects for the learning disabled community. He has held many offices in organisations dedicated to helping people with a learning disability and was the presenter of the BBC's television programmes, Let's Go!, which were the first in the world to be totally concerned with the subject and to show people with a learning disability taking part in all the everyday activities enjoyed by the rest of society. His work has been recognised with eight honorary degrees, five honorary fellowships, and numerous awards. He was appointed CBE in 1997, was knighted in 1986 and became a Life Peer in 1992. He married actress Elspet Gray in 1949 and they had four children, the eldest of who had Down's Syndrome. He is the author of several books, including his two-part autobiography - My Farce from my Elbow, and Farce about Face. He wrote ths history of touring with Tour de Farce and the history of farce with Life i