How we work as a team

This page is about

  • how we work at GeneEQUAL
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How we work is about

  • the ways we do things to reach our goals

We are person-centred

The experiences of people with intellectual disability

  • guide our research

We work to each other’s

  • strengths and preferences
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What works best for each of us

  • can be different

That is great!

Our work spaces are

  • safe
  • welcoming

Everyone is welcome to talk about their

  • experiences
  • ideas
  • opinions

in a positive way

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We use people first language

We say

  • a person with intellectual disability

We do not say

  • disabled
  • impaired

We say

  • intellectual disability

and

  • people with intellectual disability

Abbreviations are short forms of

  • words
  • phrases

We do not use abbreviations for disability such as

  • ID
  • PWID
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We show respect and understanding

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Each of our

  • experiences
  • communities
  • ways of thinking

help us to think differently

We show each other

  • it is good to be different

We work to each other’s strengths

We help each other to improve

We do not focus on the things

  • that people find difficult to do

We try not to use

  • difficult words
  • abbreviations

We explain difficult words

  • if we need to use them
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This helps everyone to

  • take part in the conversation

Education about genetic health care

  • is important to us
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We want people with intellectual disability to

  • feel confident
  • believe in their right

to make their own health care decisions

We support people with intellectual disability to

  • understand their right to make genetic health care decisions
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  • make decisions about genetic health care
  • feel more confident to be part of health care decisions

We give information that is

  • accessible
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  • based on research
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We share information in many ways

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We explore

  • new research
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  • what research says works best
  • laws
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  • policies
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A policy is the instructions that

  • tell people how to follow a law
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We work together with

  • our team
  • other groups

We work together with many different people

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We celebrate each other’s

  • strengths
  • skills

When we work together like this

  • our strengths get better and better

We work together with health care workers

  • to show respect to people with intellectual disability

We work together with teachers

Teachers can make sure students with intellectual disability

  • learn to make choices and decisions
  • have many chances to make choices and decisions
  • feel confident to make choices and decisions
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We are brave

We are not afraid to
• stand up for what is right

We ask the world to show more

  • respect
  • inclusion
  • accessibility

We always want to learn

We welcome new ways of doing research