Fighting for our Rights Kingston’s Role in the Disability Rights Movement 1960s to 1990s About this project In 2017, Kingston Centre for Independent Living (KCIL) collaborated with disabled people and those working with the disability community to collect stories regarding…
Leadership and Resistance Videos
New Videos for UKDHM 2019 Barbara Lisicki interview Baroness Jane Campbell interview Diana Rose – The Mental Health System and Resistance Micheline Mason and Christine Wilson on the wider political movement Jaysaree Kalathil – Black and Ethnic Minority Survivor Research…
Leadership and Resistance Posters
For UKDHM 2019 we have produced a series of posters celebrating figures and groups significant to the Disability Rights Movement. Click the links below to download and print them out. Greta Thunberg poster Word document Micheline Mason poster Word document…
The history of learning disability, 1900 to the present day
This new online resource comprises a bank of educational activities from Year 5 through to Year 13 on the history of learning disability. It is relevant to a wide range of subject areas, for both mainstream and special educational provision. Many of the activities area also suitable for adults with learning disabilities who are interested in history. The activities cover various aspects of learning disability history, from the early 20th century to the present day, spanning life in institutions and in the community. The activities also engage with contemporary issues of equality, rights, discrimination, disablist language and bullying.
Resources for use with classes in schools and colleges
A large number of activities to bring different aspects of disability history into the curriculum focussing on the way disabled people were treated from 1000 AD to the present day.
Who is Johnny Crescendo 1945–
This month (March 2015) is the 25th Anniversary of Richard Rieser and Micheline Mason’s report ‘Disability Equality in the Classroom: A Human Rights Issue’. To celebrate this milestone, the authors are holding a two-day conference from 20-21 March, a highlight…
Mike Oliver delivers a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities
BY JOHN PRING ON NOVEMBER 30, 2017 Listen One of the key figures in the disabled people’s movement has come out of retirement to deliver a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities. Professor Mike Oliver (pictured), the disabled academic who first defined…