This video has been made for Disability History Month UK at the University of Leeds, the Centre for Disability Studies in partnership with Leeds University Union Disability Action Group. Let us know what barriers you suffer from with #isufferfrom For…
Frances Ryan video: It’s time to stop calling disabled people inspirational
Frrances Ryan video Its time to stop calling disabled people inspirational https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/sep/07/its-time-to-stop-calling-disabled-people-inspirational-video
Launch of Open University education resources
Portcullis House, Parliament 22 November 2016 Download the pack here Jan Draper, introduced by Jan Walmsley Angela Rayner MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Education Nick Llewellyn and Paul Christian present Access All Areas Resource: The Cocoa Song…
2016 Launch Event
At King’s Place, London 22 November 2016 See the programme of speakers A series of poems by Maresa MacKeith and Micheline Mason were commissioned for UKDHM 2016. Download the booklet Chaired by Susie Burrows Maresa MacKeith > Lee Humber…
Education resources for schools and colleges on the history of learning disability, 1900 to the present day
http://www.open.ac.uk/health-and-social-care/research/shld/education-resources The Open University, UK Disability History Month and Access All Areas have collaborated to produce this on-line resource With the prevalence of negative language about disabled people and increased name based bullying at school or college particularly for students…
2016 Broadsheet
In-depth history and information about the portrayal of disability in the written and spoken word. Download the 2016 Broadsheet here Also available as word a word document.
Quiet Riot a voice for young people without speech
quiet-riot Quiet Riot: A voice that will be heard, a voice to be reckoned with! May042014 People who don’t use the spoken word have a great deal to say about communication. People who do use the spoken…
Reshaping Our Future: Theatre and Disability
A day conference held with Park Theatre & Graeae Tuesday 11 October 2016 Documentation below: Introduction to Sorry – a verbatim theatre piece outlining the challenges for disabled artists today By Jenny Sealey, Artistic Director of Graeae The use of…
The Long Nineteenth Century and Disability
http://www.nineteenthcenturydisability.org/ Mrs Clennam in Charles Dickens Little Dorritt Healing Spas and Ugly Clubs: How Victorians Taught Us to Treat People With Disabilities
Activity Matching Words and Meanings of Disablist Language
http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/media/20398/Disablist-language-activity-FINAL.pdf Disablist language: Where does it come from? Match the Word on the left with origin( numbers)/meaning on the right(letters). Word(s) Origin/Meaning 1. Spaz or spastic A. Used in the USA for people with learning difficulties. Offensive. Use person with…