Accessing the past, accessing the future

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Accessing the past, accessing the future

• Dorothy Atkinson and Mabel Cooper

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Mabel Coopers Life Story

• We look back at Mabels life (no access)
• We look forward to the present and the future
  (lots of access)

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St Lawrences Hospital
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Scenes from hospital life
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Getting a life

• Three things were important for Mabel in getting
  a life
• Getting out of St Lawrences
• Joining a self-advocacy group
• Telling her story

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Mabels story is published in

• Forgotten Lives
• Good Times, Bad Times
• Crossing Boundaries

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Mabel is now

• A published author
• A historical researcher
• A broadcaster on radio and TV

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For Mabel, telling her story meant

• Finding out who she was
• Making sense of her life
• Understanding what happened to her and other
  people
• Helping her move on.