Key researchers in inclusion and learning disabilities contribute to this engaging book, bringing together evidence, narrative and discussion to question and advance our understanding of the concept of "access" for people with learning disabilities.

@contents: Selected Contents: 1. Access for people with learning difficulties: new rhetoric or meaningful concept? Melanie Nind and Jane Seale 2. Access in mind: a review of approaches to accessible information for people with learning disabilities Jan Walmsley 3. Creativity, choice and control: the use of multimedia life story work as a tool to facilitate access Ann Aspinall 4. Access all areas: The use of symbols in public spaces Chris Abbott and Cate Detheridge 5. Access all areas: We are VIPs Ginny Aird, Alan Dale, Sarah Edgecombe, Louisa Jones, Trevor Rowden, Mark Sabine, Amy Tyler, Mary Waight and Sara Wornham 6. It's my heritage too: Developing participatory methods for promoting access to heritage sites Jonathan Rix with The Heritage Forum 7. Promoting access to community and participation: What role can citizenship education play? Hazel Lawson 8. Talking together about access: 'When I am here I don't feel like I've got any problems' Drew Bradley, Judith Clayton, Darren Grant, Claire Royall and Wayne Taylor 9. Promoting social inclusion through building bridges and bonds Roy McConkey and Suzanne Collins 10. If we have got it wrong for people with learning disabilities, have we got it wrong for other people as well? Duncan Mitchell 11. I'm in control Gary Butler 12. Access and the concept of risk: preventing bad things from happening or making good things happen? Jane Seale and Melanie Nind