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Marian, please excuse my ignorance, I have so much to learn. Isn't deafness rather medicalised on the whole also? Gill. Gill Dixon BHSc Hons, RGN Independent Dyspraxia Advisor/Trainer. > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mairian > Corker > Sent: 19 September 1999 23:31 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: RE: diversity on campus > > > This doesn't surprise me as 'dyspraxia', as a 'condition' is perhaps > connoted with impairment/medical model > > Best wishes, > > Mairian > > >This is interesting. Last year I was asked to run some workshops > around the > >subject of Dyspraxia. It is becoming a buzz word in schools and > interest is > >always high. There were a number of other people running workshops, all > >regarding 'hidden' disability. > >One of the workshops was very poorly attended and that was dealing with > >deafness. The workshop leader said, I think I'll leave the word > 'deaf' out > >of the title next time and see what the response is. > > > >Certainly I find I can talk on a range of special needs in education, by > >putting Dyspraxia in the title. It pulls the crowds! (At the moment). > >Gill. > > >> > >> > >> I do wonder, though, why disability is not even in the > >> sub-title?! Are they > >> worried about a diminished readership, I wonder? I ask because > I've just > >> come back from a conference where there was a disability stream (poorly > >> attended) and another stream where there was a disability > paper which did > >> not mention disability in the title or abstract (well attended). > >> On talking > >> to the author of this paper, it turned out that this was > deliberate - to > >> get people to listen. Has anyone else tried this strategy and > what do you > >> think of it? > > > Mairian Corker > Senior Research Fellow in Deaf and Disability Studies > Department of Education Studies > University of Central Lancashire > Preston PR1 2HE > > Address for correspondence: > 111 Balfour Road > Highbury > London N5 2HE > U.K. > > Minicom/TTY +44 [0]171 359 8085 > Fax +44 [0]870 0553967 > Typetalk (voice) +44 [0]800 515152 (and ask for minicom/TTY number) > > ********* > > "To understand what I am doing, you need a third eye" > > ********* > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%