Image: Jean Wilson. The DAPPLE project hasn’t come out of nowhere. It has not been dreamt up by academics sitting at a solitary university desk. It has been built on sighs and cries, on many people’s questions, leading to wishes and demands. More than anything, this project has come out of the voices of people with a learning disability and their families and carers. They are our foundation. Over the past decades, we have learned so much from people. We have seen how terrible

Image: Irene Tuffrey-Wijne Written by Prof Irene Tuffrey-Wijne (Project Lead) I’m delighted to welcome you to the DAPPLE project, this brand-new website and our first blog post. Whoever you are, wherever you’re reading this: WELCOME! You will find plenty of information on this website, including a wonderful video presented by my colleagues with a learning disability. What is the DAPPLE project, who is doing it, why are we doing it, what will we do? Let me tell you a little bi