Chris,
You wrote:
> I'd be interested in your 'packaging' I honestly believe it is the
most > emancipating training around disability, I work on an 'audit'
style to personalise the workshop for the participants, makes it
relevant.
Yes, absolutely. But the problem is to get people to buy into it in the
first place. "Disability Equality" is hardly the snappiest title
around. We are now looking at targeting specific groups, for example,
Tourism and Leisure Industry, Libraries and writing blurbs that
highlight issues of real importance to particular situations. And yes,
we ask participants to examine their own situations and devleop action
plans: rather like your audit style I would imagine.
Training: WECODP did provide some training in the Bristol area many years
ago. The trouble is that this was a once-off and there have been no
opportunities for new (potential) trainers to receive any training
themselves. I'll get back to you if I see a funding opportunity.
>
You now:
> The DRC recently called for tenders from all DETrainers and agencies so it
> looks like this is the training they will be recommending in the future. I
> can give contacts of trainers who are appropriately skilled, qualified and
> experienced in DET (and no, I don't mean me! - Too busy! -except of course
> for LEA award officers;o))
Me:
Have you got details of this, because this call missed us!
>
You:
I am most interested in developing further the notion of Deaf
Equality training.
Me:
Therein lies a tale! About a year ago, in discussion with CACDP, we
started planning some potential seminars for deaf awareness trainers.
With all the new CACDP developments these never took off as we felt
that training budgets would be stretched by the new demands for deaf
people to be trained to deliver the new CACDP Deaf Studies modules. But
there is a real issue here: many Deaf people teach deaf awareness and
(attempt to) follow the CACDP curriculum without an understanding of
Disability Equality and of the linguistic minority vs. disabled
argument. One of my Deaf colleagues has just produced an assignment on
this very topic and the discussions that led up to the finished work
were fascinating.
It's also, of course, relevant to us as Disability Officers (or related
professions) as we should be aware of deaf people's individual choices
in the matter of identity.
Claire
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Claire Wickham
Director: Programmes, Research and Development
Access Unit
University of Bristol
Union Building
Queen's Road
Clifton
Bristol BS8 1LN
Tel: 0117 954 5710
Textphone: 0117 954 5715
Fax: 0117 954 5714
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