I thought Chris's analysis was sound and useful for us all to read.
But the question was probably different:
What events can one offer as part of adult learners' week that will
help with attitude change and will promote an equal rights based
approach to disability issues?
We have found Disability Equality Training difficult to market, but are
now working on some livelier approaches.
Deaf and Vision Awareness taster sessions are easier to market but we
do not ever use simulation exercises (for the reasons Chris outlined).
Such sessions are useful as they can give people the confidence and
skills to interact with disabled people. We also always use disabled
trainers.
James - I would be happy to have a chat about possibilities and send
you some example programs.
Re. training of Disability Equality Trainers: this is a difficult issue
a s there isn't any training (that I am aware of). There is also a
considerable amount of inferior training around. I will file any
dis-forum responses to this subject as if I ever see a suitable source
of funding I'd like to get a group of potential partners together to
write a proposal for such a training course. (?ESF)
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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