Hi Hama,
I see from your email address that you are in Manchester University so you
are well placed to talk to the Manchester Access Group:
http://www.mdpag.org.uk/ who are possibly the strongest and best informed
Access Group in the UK and who run all sorts of training.
regards,
Vin
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From: "hamanyanga miyoba" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: Training
> Hi Vin,
> To be honest, I am impressed with how you use your terminologies
> (disability and Impairments). Most of all I would like to follow up on the
> issue of disability culture and more so, (deaf culture) Do you have any
> articles or readings that I would benefit from regarding this topic?
>
> Waiting to hearing from you at your convenience.
>
> Hama.
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> From: "Vin West" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Training
>
>
> just like to point out that to meet your Disability Equality Duty as a
> public authority under the 2005 DDA you should start with Disability
> Equality Training using a disabled person who is a qualified DE Trainer -
> then at least you would avoid using the term 'disabilities' when you mean
> impairments and would know that Ddeaf people use this spelling to indicate
> that some Ddeaf people consider themselves not as disabled people but as
> members of a linguistic minority. Disability Awareness Training has tended
> to be Medical Model based and used offensive training methods like
> simulation training. If you google disability equality training rather
> than awareness you get more accurate results.
>
>
> Vin West
> Secretary Arfon Access Group
> Glyn Dwr
> Llandwrog Uchaf
> Caernarfon
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> On 6 Apr 2010, at 16:19, Alyson Matthews wrote:
>
>> Not really a building issue, but a disability one.
>>
>> I work for a local authority, and we co-ordinate the provision of basic
>> disability awareness training for council employees - e.g. deaf
>> awareness, visual impairment awareness, learning difficulty awareness and
>> so on.
>>
>> We have been asked to provide some basic training in more specific
>> disabilities, in addition. The ones mentioned were cancer and MS,
>> although we would be willing to run any disability-related training on a
>> pilot basis.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any training providers in the West Midlands area who
>> provide this sort of training? I have tried Googling, but haven't found
>> anything. We are only looking for 1/2 day courses, 3 hours at most.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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