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A handbook for young disabled people living in Cambridgeshire
This book is for you if you’re
aged somewhere between 14
and 20. It’s about your move
into adult life – opportunities
in further and higher
education, training and work,
and all the support you need
to live independently. It’s
about having fun, too, and
about coping when you’re
having problems.
There are thousands of
opportunities and services
out there but we cannot
include them all. So this
book is a guide through
the maze of services that
points you to more help
and more information
and advice. It’s a starting
point, so use Disability
Cambridgeshire, Disability
Huntingdonshire, the
Youthoria and Rough
Times websites, and
everything else listed here to
find out more.
Contact Disability
Cambridgeshire if you would
like information from this
book in large print.
Contents
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Fun 3
Going places 12
Making the transition: school,
college, university, training
and work
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Living independently 36
House and home 50
Good times and rough times 56
Money 63
Information, advice and advocacy 71
Equality, action, politics and media 80
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When things go wrong –
how to complain 87
Index 88
Cover photo: Cambridgeshire resident and Anglia Ruskin University student Fran Williamson, who won silver
and bronze swimming medals at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games (Phil Mynott)