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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