(01 Feb 2010)
DCTV will broadcast during the month of February the DVD “All We Want to Say” on:
- Mondays at 12:30 pm
- Fridays at 19:00 pm
You can watch the “All We Want to Say” program on Channel 802 on the NTL digital network. You can also watch the DVD online:
Find out all about the "all we want to say" project here
This is the first national inclusive research project conducted in Ireland. This project aimed to find out what life is like for people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland and how the lives of people with intellectual disabilities could be better. This project was done in collaboration with the National Institute for Intellectual Disability (NIID), Trinity College Dublin, University of Ulster, co-researchers with intellectual disabilities (co-researchers) throughout Ireland, and supporters.
Co-researchers and supporters were trained in how to facilitate and run focus groups and they conducted 23 focus groups, 16 in the Republic of Ireland and 7 in Northern Ireland. We analysed what people told us in the focus groups and selected the themes that were most important for the focus groups participants. The main themes we found were that people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland wanted to have control, choice and support to become self-advocates, good communicators, paid employees, money managers, house owners and flat mates, partners in relationships, and overall, respected citizens.
We formed five groups of co-researchers and supporters and developed presentations of the findings. We put together these presentations into a DVD that we aim to present to staff in organisations, self-advocates, politicians, other people with disabilities, and the wider public. We have made this report and the DVD inclusively to advocate for change in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland.
Further information is available here.
A full copy of the report is available here.