peittion: to introduce common disabilities to the curriculum for primary and secondary
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Hi @read,
That's brilliant that you have 71 signitures and that you have a contact number for BBC East of England, please may I ask have you mananged to contact them? I really like the idea of an assembly or as a more long term plan incorporating it as part of PSHE or Citinzenship depending what terminology for lessons the school uses. Please may I ask do you think it would be more appropriate to have disabilitiy specific lessons or assemblies such as a lesson about Cerebral Palsy and a lesson about Autism or do you think the lesson or assesmbly should be more generally about disability? Thank you -
anything from specific disabilities or issues surrounding it haven't phoned them yet
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Hi @read,
Thank you for sharing, I definitely agree, I think talking about specific disabilities is very useful and I also believe that this should come from people with lived experience of the disability as well as those with knowledge of the disability. Please do keep us updated. Thank you. -
When I signed it was still in 70's, but I cannot imagine why anyone would say no.
The two things I wonder about are designing the content to steer the line. On one hand, introducing some of the obvious and less obvious drawbacks (for example, cover the fact that, paradoxically, not only autism spectrum but also deaf spectrum covers people who are distressed by sudden or loud or intrusive noise, including muzac)
On the other hand, indicating that just because someone is, say, completely blind or lacking limbs, doesn't always mean they can't mountain climb. That always is uneasy regarding paralympics. What should the public think? This person cannot walk, so give him benefits for life and don't expect him to work. That person cannot walk, but wins Olympic medals and can work.
Finally, I think I agree and disagree about the schools idea. First, it shouldn't be yet another shoe-horn into the crowded curriculum because it should not be left to individual teachers. This should be a national and even international endeavour. Each disability specialist group should produce their own list of points they wish the general public knew about. Then they can be assisted from education funding and no doubt with willing expert volunteers, to produce a you tube or similar, to a high standard, for posterity, for the general public, and for schools to use as source material for students to view in their own time. The rest of the family can see it. It isn't only school children who have misconceptions or blank lack of knowledge.
Just as any education programme must start with a general, interesting, coverage of a few important basics, the introduction you tube series would have links, to more detailed information. -
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Thanks for your interest. Had to swap from tablet, and that broke the log in.
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There is at least one charity with the sole object of doing exactly this. Are you in touch?
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no who and the petitions objective is to make it national
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