Disability History Month they take the extra resources offered and remain an expanded version of themselves. Experience shows the management and accountability measures need to be changed for this transition to be successful.
UK Disability History Month 2020: Access.
It is much better if cross-impairment DPO Councils or coalitions, with parents, provide this support and advice drawing on the wealth of experience from their members to cover the full range of impairments. The IDA approach is likely to lead to separate silos, with some groups such as psychosocial left out, rather than full disability equality.
“We need to make every single thing accessible to every single disabled person.” Stevie Wonder
In our 11th year we are focusing on the theme of ‘Access’ and asking the questions: ‘How far have we come?’ and ‘How far have we got to go?’. UK IDA proposes that any other settings be phased Disability History Month runs from the online out, with key human resources and knowledge launch at 7pm 18th November, to Friday 18th assets converted – whenever possible – to support December 2020. equal access and reasonable accommodation A fundamental human right now is for Disabled towards inclusion. However, sign language access people to gain ‘access’ and participation on an equal for learners who are deaf and non-visual access level with others, regardless of our impairments. to learners who are blind are both essential for Disabled people have struggled for many years meeting the right to education: this access cannot to adapt society’s lived physical and information always be provided in local settings. Therefore environment. The first International Human Rights they argue in h) a breach of the requirement for Treaty to explicitly include ‘accessibility’ as a local provision in UNCRPD (24.2b), and b) Disabled principle was the UN Convention on the Rights of people can access an inclusive, quality and free Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), 2008. primary education and secondary education on an equal basis with others in the communities in There had been national laws, building codes and standards partially acknowledging the need for which they live. access in the previous 120 years. All of these were Given the lack of funding this sounds remarkably fought for by Disabled people, their organisations, like keeping segregation going into the foreseeable and some non-disabled led charities. People with future for a minority and no education for many, as sensory impairments were in the vanguard, arguing it is not inclusive enough. for the teaching and use of Braille, Sign Language, and gaining concessions in a minority of mainly higher income countries. More recently, People Inclusive reading with Learning Difficulties have fought for access to ordinary education. Direct Action Network (DAN) If you like Inclusion Now, you may be chained themselves to buses until the date for interested in subscribing to ezines and blogs accessible transport was brought forward. from Inclusive Solutions. Disabled people were seen as a problem to be https://inclusive-solutions.com/termlycured and made ‘normal’, a ‘medical model’ inclusive-ezines/ approach. Now the barriers Disabled people with a multitude of impairments face, need resolving. https://inclusiveThis is the ‘social model / human rights’ approach. solutions.com/ Schools can do the following: category/blog/ IDA opposes any education setting that does not provide inclusive education in its broadest sense.
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