Posts by Hilary Stace
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Access: The Meltdown, in reply to mark taslov,
What term do you suggest might be more respectful?
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My friend Mike Grigg, who is a crusading advocate for community understanding of meltdowns, has given away several copies of a simple book called Managing Meltdowns by Lipsky and Richards, to politicians, police and community organisations. It's a great little book which advocates a sensible, predictable and planned response.
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From my observation it seems the main issue is around predictability. Things need to be predictable for a sense of security. Otherwise anxiety, resistance or meltdown can result. As a parent I have had to learn to explain to my son and others (and some parents do that with visual aids such as social stories) what is going to happen, when, how long it will take before we get home again or back to a regular routine.
I have also learnt over the years that you also need to have a Plan B as part of the predictable plan. So if the bus doesn't come Plan B is to ring a specified person on a programmed number in a cellphone (which always has to be charged and paid up) rather than wait all day at the bus stop.
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Access: The Meltdown, in reply to Russell Brown,
I agree with you about the work fears. The workplace has to be the right one with the right culture. Otherwise just not worth it for so many reasons. Dignity of risk only goes so far.
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I suspect a meltdown and an unsympathetic/uncaring workplace is behind this sad story.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/small-business/79641523/Company-censured-for-firing-employee-because-he-was-old-and-had-Aspergers -
I reported it elsewhere but 'm still shocked by a comment at a public lecture I attended at Victoria University last week. The session explored (not necessarily promoted) the idea of a sugar tax and the speakers were a tax expert academic and a public health researcher. At the end a member of the audience (middle aged white male) asked why we don't just tax fat people.
Fat hate summed up right there.
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I read those reports about Susan Boyle and like you recognised a classic meltdown. Hopefully, she found some people to protect her from the crowds and give practical help.
Also I recognise that shut down you mention. If there is a next time for your son to visit Wellington I could ask mine to act as tour guide, including the best places to go by public transport.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Sacha,
Most important is that something is implemented. The original NZDS had no legislation requiring government agencies to actually do anything.
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Rosemary, anything more to report from the consultation meeting, or questions to ask. Ours is next week
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Speaker: Talking past each other:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
A sugar tax creates incentives for manufacturers to reformulate their products to contain less sugar (eg the Nutrigrain example). It is apparently already happening in the UK with just a threat of a tax.
A tax is just one way of many of addressing a problem of lack of wellbeing, however, measured, not the only method. And the effects might not be immediately obvious. But it is just one of many initiatives that could be implemented together as a package, or individually, to improve the health and wellbeing of the population.
Much of the discussion out there seems to be that sugar tax by itself is going to - or not going to - make a major change to consumption and behaviour. That's not how the real world works.