“…Interpreting concepts of independence and autonomy for people with learning disabilities, however, is challenging, relating to historical understandings of normalisation (Simpson, 1998) and aligned with neoliberal expectations about not being a burden on society (Lero, Pletsch, & Hibrecht, 2012). These concepts are also often exclusionary for people with severe learning disabilities (MacIntyre, 2014;Vorhaus, 2005) where possibilities for choice and control have been shown to be particularly restricted (for example, Petner-Arrey & Copeland, 2015).…”