TACKLING EQUALITY Single strand approach:Disability Equality Training, explores the discrimination and prejudice disabled people face as a marginalised group.

1. Disability Equality Training Laura (Mole) Chapman

3. Ground Rules What do you need to participate?

5. Respectful language

8. Examples of Impairment Quadriplegia Polio Cerebral palsy Blindness Deafness Examples of Disability Buildings without ramps Poor health provision Bullying, name-calling Segregated education Workplaces without lifts

11. Stereotypes VULNERABLE PEOPLE ?

13. What is disability?

16. "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."

17. Emmerdale CSI

18. The ugly sisters Shrek

20. Medical Model thinking Bad image No qualifications Expensive Nothing to bring Victims Only know about disability Networks Difficult behaviour The impairment is the focus The person is perceived as faulty

22. Social Model thinking Disabled people as active members of the community Great P.R expertise Challenges tolerance Diverse skills Social skills Does it differently Feelings Assessment panels

23. Social model thinking Attitudes, 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

24. Barriers attitudinal structural systemic

25. Reflective Practice Plan Do Review What do you know? What can we learn? What has changed?

28. Positive

29. “ Vision without action is merely a dream Action without vision just passes the time Vision with action can change the world” Joel Barker

31. Reflective Practice Plan Do Review New ideas New practice New outcomes

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