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DESCRIPTION
The overall aim is to build professionals confidence by encouraging a positive response to change. Unlike Impairment Awareness Training, which is lengthy and costly, Disability Equality Training addresses the inequality of opportunity that disabled children face. This session does not deal with individual deficit, but instead outlines the ideas that promote inclusive culture. It supports shared responsibility to enabling full participation by responding flexibly to all children’s needs within all settings. This ‘getting the environment right’ approach is reached by developing positive action to eliminate prejudice and barriers. All ideas are underpinned by disability theory, wellbeing research and are related to broader changes in service provision across the UK.TRANSCRIPT
Disability Equality Training
Laura (Mole) Chapman
Welcome
Fun with labels
Ground RulesWhat do you need to participate?
Shared Outcomes:
• Hopes and fears:
Respectful language
Respectful language
Disability... the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by contemporary social organisation which takes little or no account of people who have physical impairments and thus excludes them from the mainstream of social activities.
(the Union for of Physically Impaired Segregation1976)
Respectful language
Impairment, disabled people use this term to talk about their medical condition or diagnosis or description of their functioning—if there is nothing more formal.
Examples of Impairment
QuadriplegiaPolioCerebral palsyBlindnessDeafness
Examples of
Disability
Buildings without rampsPoor health provisionBullying, name-callingSegregated educationWorkplaces without lifts
Respectful language
• The person—their name.• Impairment =
Functioning• Disability = barriers in
society
Respectful language
Fred Brown (the person) is a man with cerebral palsy (the impairment). When the barriers and discrimination (the oppression) that restrict Fred have been removed from society, Fred will no longer be disabled, but he will still have cerebral palsy and be called Fred.
Stereotypes
VULNERABLE PEOPLE ?
Behaviour
Feeling Action:
What is disability?
The Facts
• Visually impaired people are four times more likely to be verbally and physically abused than sighted people
• People with mental health issues are 11 times more likely to be victimised
• 90% of adults with a learning difficulty report being 'bullied'.
Scope 2008
Compared with non-disabled people, disabled
people are:• more likely to be economically inactive –
only one in two disabled people of working age are currently in employment, compared with four out of five non-disabled people;
• more likely to experience problems with hate crime or harassment – a quarter of all disabled people say that they have experienced hate crime or harassment, and this number rises to 47% of people with mental health conditions;
"on the experience of disability, history is largely silent, and when it is discussed at all, it is within
the context of the history of medical advances. Just as women and black people have discovered
that they must write their own histories, so too with disabled
people."
Emmerdale
CSI
The ugly sisters
Shrek
The Medical Model of disability
• Medical approach to the problem.
• Defined by non-disabled professionals
• Equated to illness in terms of research and findings.
• Care and benefits have been awarded to compensate for personal tragedy.
Medical Model thinking
Badimage
No qualificatio
ns
Expensive
Nothing to bring
Victims
Only know about
disability
Networks
Difficult behaviour
The impairment is
the focusThe person
is perceived as faulty
The Social Model of disability
• The problem owned by the whole community.
• It defines disability in terms barriers, attitudinal, structural and systemic.
• Acknowledges the oppression, and need for action.
• It recognises disabled people’s leadership in finding a solution.
Disabled people as active members of the community
Great P.R
expertise
Challenges
tolerance
Diverse skills
Social skills
Does it differently
Feelings
Assessment panels
Social Model thinking
Social model thinkingAttitudes, the environment & systems are a
problem
We participate in
change for equality
We have an individual &a collective
responsibility
we are allowed to
do what is right for ourselves
we have a positive image and are
proud of who we are
we have expertise
and might wish to
take risks
we are all equal members of the
community
Barriers attitudinalstructural systemic
Reflective Practice
Plan
DoReview
What do you know?
What can we learn?What has changed?
Reflective PracticeEnlightenment (understanding)
• Understanding why things have come to be as they are in terms of frustrating self’s realisation of desirable practice.
Empowerment
• Creating the necessary conditions within self whereby action to realize desirable practice can be undertaken.
Emancipation (transformation)
• A stable shift in practice congruent with the realisation of desirable practice
QuickTime™ and a decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Positive
“Vision without action is merely a dream
Action without vision just passes the time
Vision with action can change the world”
Joel Barker
Possible
We can:
EYFS: Learning and Development
Reflective Practice
Plan
DoReview
New ideas New practice
New outcomes
Not Goodbye….But a bientot
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