David Blunkett

(born 6 June 1947)

"is a British Labour Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, having represented Sheffield Brightside from 1987 to 2010. Blind since birth, and coming from a poor family in one of Sheffield's most deprived districts, he rose to become Education Secretary, Home Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet following Labour's victory in the 1997 general election"

This extract is taken from the wikipedia page on David Blunkett (Click here for more) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blunkett

Defying Stereotypes: The Way forward

Stereotypes are groups of attitudes which have little or no basis in reality and yet persist in cultures. Stereotyping reduces the individuality and character of people to false social constructs. This leads to name-calling and violence towards the subjects of stereotyping, undercutting the humanity of the victims.

There are ten main stereotypes of disabled people:

Click this link for our document on these stereotypes, and how to avoid them!

Developing Inclusive Education

Inclusive Education is used in many ways. For the Disabled People’s Movement it means all children and young people receiving their education together in the same school or college with the support provided and teaching and learning varied so that all can make social and academic progress to meet their potential.

Here are some views about inclusive education recently gathered by the Alliance for Inclusive Education in their campaign- We Know Inclusion Works.

DOWNLOAD THIS DOCUMENT TO FIND OUT ABOUT DEVELOPING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Dimensions

A national organisation which supports people with Learning Disabilities and Autism to live the life they want.  It supports over 2500 people and their families across England and South Wales.

http://www.dimensions-uk.org/

Disability and Social Change

"Combining critical policy analysis with biographical accounts, this book provides a socio-historical account of the changing treatment of disabled people in Britain from the 1940s to the present day. It asks whether life has really changed for disabled people and shows the value of using biographical methods in new and critical ways to examine social and historical change over time."

http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847427861&

Disability Arts Online

Disability Arts Online is a web journal that gives disabled and deaf artists, performers, film-makers, writers, and critics a place to talk about developing artistic practice and accessing the arts.

DAO welcomes mid-career or emerging artists and companies who work under the umbrella of disability arts, to share artistic development; discuss issues; and get encouragement and knowledge about the value of disability / deaf arts and culture.

Webstie - http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/about

Disability Equality

...Promoting positive attitudes through the teaching of the national curriculum.

Children’s Society 2009

http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/resources/documents/Research/11532_full.pd

Disability Equality In the Classroom

A Human Rights Issue (1990/1992) by Richard Rieser & Micheline Mason

Contents: A handbook for teachers which compiles some of the best thinking by disabled people about our history, our current issues, language, images, and culture. Many ideas, as to how to bring disability into the classroom as an issue of equality in the last section

The activities contained within this book, though 20 years old, still present many useful resources for raising disability equality throughout the school curriculum. You may wish to update a few or use them as historical documents.

[Click here for a PDF of the handbook] (Please wait for link to load)
[There is a set of 44 resource cards for use in the classroom also]

DISABILITY IN WAR TIME

this is a pcs resource pack

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/equality/guidance-and-resources/disability-history-month-toolkit.cfm

Disability News and Information Service

See their website at http://www.dnis.org/

Information is a powerful tool. It can lead to self-advocacy and empowerment, if used intelligently. This is what we firmly believe in at Disability News and Information Service (DNIS) - a fortnightly news service on the Indian disability sector.