Documents to aid accessibility in the classroom
DIY Theatre Company – FOLLOWING PATIENT 36
To Celebrate UK Disability History Month this year, DIY has launched a FOLLOWING PATIENT 36 Digital Story and some resources to support schools and others to explore Learning Disability History.
Janine Roebuck Deaf Opera Singer UK
Janine Roebuck Progressive deafness ran in the family, but Britain’s Janine Roebuck wasn’t worried. She’d never had problems before, so she continued to pursue her love of music. However, while she was studying at Manchester University, she noticed that some…
Ian Curtis (Joy Division) 1956–1980. Depression and Epilepsy
Curtis performing live with Joy Division at the Mayflower in Manchester in 1979 Background information Birth name Ian Kevin Curtis Born 15 July 1956 Stretford, Lancashire, England Died 18 May 1980 (aged 23) Macclesfield, Cheshire, England Genres Post-punk gothic rock…
Andrea Bocelli 1958– Opera singer, blind
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andrea Bocelli, (Italian pronunciation: ; born 22 September 1958) is an Italian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Celine Dion has said that “if God would have a singing voice, he must sound a lot like Andrea…
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…
UK Disability History Month 2017 Postscript
This years theme of Visual Art and Disability has been a great success. We produced and distributed 2,300 copies of the 12 page Broadsheet. http://ukdhm.org/2017-broadsheet/ We had a 2 page article in Septembers issue of the Teacher that goes to…
Disabled Century BBC Produced and Directed by David Hevey
Can be viewed on line at www.davidhevey.com/viewing Episode 1 The Disabled CenturyEpisode 1 of 3 A look at the experiences of those disabled while fighting for their country in the two world wars, and the harsh, often brutal realities that confronted the vast…
Sanchita Islam, 1973–
Islam was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England to a “non-Sylheti“Bangladeshi parents. Islam’s father died when she was eight months old, at the time her mother was in her mid 20s with three children under the age of four. Islam and her sisters…
Tanya Raabe-Webber
Biography Tanya Raabe other wise known as Tanya Raabe-Webber was Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, has been a practising Visual Artist, devising artworks exploring and challenging identity, a disabled self and the nude in contemporary Art since 1987. She gained…