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Attitudes
Raymond Johnson: Labels
Raymond was born in 1963 in Islington, London. He attended local primary and secondary special schools and then went on to attend local colleges.
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Here Raymond describes changing attitudes towards people with learning difficulties.
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Transcript
When I was at William C Harvey that was, you know, them times I wasn’t all that confident, you know. Them times, you know, people – before we got – we got under the name – got labelled people with mental handicapped and this is going back, you know, many years by the way, you know, it was like it was even politically – politically incorrect.Explore more
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