Opinion: The Listening Game
Peter Shelton
Learning disabled people are used to having the power to make choices taken from them and, worse, when they do make choices they can be ignored. Peter Shelton and his colleagues at First Movement Trust found themselves in the enviable position of having to design a new building to be used by learning disabled people. Before there could be any creative thinking about building design, there had to be creative work to find out what the users without verbal or signed communication would want. Here began the listening game.
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