news ways of thinking about disability and labelling

melaniethorley
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Please find a short video via this link as created by my colleagues at Microlink. Enjoy...
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I like the Canadian people analogy - very useful.
I also think it is important that the filmakers have questioned why organisations require a business case to employ more disabled people - they do not write a business case to emply Canadians...
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I used the clip in a workshop yesterday for prospective students. They had the idea that we should label ourselves as Canadian rather than disabled...I quite like the idea
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As a Canadian disabled person.... I'm confused. Does this mean I'd be 2 x Canadian? Canadian^2?
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In academia, I think that is called double jeopardy...
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