This document provides an overview of disability equality training. It begins with introductions and establishing ground rules. It then discusses respectful language and the social model of disability, which defines disability as barriers in society rather than inherent limitations. Stereotypes of disabled people are addressed, and statistics provided on abuse and economic inactivity faced by disabled people. The training distinguishes medical and social models of disability and promotes social model thinking that focuses on attitudinal, structural, and systemic barriers rather than individual impairments. Reflective practice is encouraged to understand and address barriers to equality. The training concludes by emphasizing the ability to enact vision and change with action.

1. Disability Equality
Training
Laura (Mole) Chapman

2. Welcome
Fun with labels

3. Ground Rules
What do you need to participate?

4. Shared Outcomes:
• Hopes and fears:

5. Respectful language

6. Respectful language
Disability... the disadvantage or restriction
of activity caused by contemporary social
organisation which takes little or no
account of people who have physical
impairments and thus excludes them
from the mainstream of social activities.
(the Union for of Physically Impaired Segregation1976)

7. Respectful language
Impairment, disabled people use this
term to talk about their medical
condition or diagnosis or description
of their functioning—if there is
nothing more formal.

8.
Examples of
Impairment
Quadriplegia
Polio
Cerebral palsy
Blindness
Deafness
Examples of
Disability
Buildings without
ramps
Poor health provision
Bullying, name-calling
Segregated education
Workplaces without lifts

9. Respectful language
• The person—their name.
• Impairment = Functioning
• Disability = barriers in society

10. Respectful
language
Fred Brown (the person) is a man with
cerebral palsy (the impairment). When the
barriers and discrimination (the
oppression) that restrict Fred have been
removed from society, Fred will no longer
be disabled, but he will still have cerebral
palsy and be called Fred.

11. Stereotypes
VULNERABLE PEOPLE ?

12. Behaviour
Feeling Action:

13. What is disability?

14. The Facts
• Visually impaired people are four times more likely
to be verbally and physically abused than sighted
people
• People with mental health issues are 11 times
more likely to be victimised
• 90% of adults with a learning difficulty report being
'bullied'.
Scope 2008

15. Compared with non­disabled
people, disabled people are:
• more likely to be economically inactive – only
one in two disabled people of working age are
currently in employment, compared with four out
of five non-disabled people;
• more likely to experience problems with hate
crime or harassment – a quarter of all disabled
people say that they have experienced hate crime
or harassment, and this number rises to 47% of
people with mental health conditions;

16. "on the experience of disability,
history is largely silent, and when it is
discussed at all, it is within the
context of the history of medical
advances. Just as women and black
people have discovered that they must
write their own histories, so too with
disabled people."

17. Emmerdale
CSI

18. The ugly sisters
Shrek

19. The Medical Model of disability
• Medical approach to the problem.
• Defined by non-disabled professionals
• Equated to illness in terms of research
and findings.
• Care and benefits have been awarded to
compensate for personal tragedy.

20. Medical Model thinking
Bad
image
No
qualifications
Expensive
Nothing to
bring
Victims
Only know
about
disability
Networks
Difficult
behaviour
The impairment is
the focus
The person
is perceived as
faulty

21. The Social Model of disability
• The problem owned by the whole
community.
• It defines disability in terms barriers,
attitudinal, structural and systemic.
• Acknowledges the oppression, and need
for action.
• It recognises disabled people’s leadership
in finding a solution.

22. Disabled people as
active members
of the community
Great P.R
expertise
Challenges
tolerance
Diverse
skills
Social skills
Does it
differently
Feelings
Assessment
panels
Social Model thinking

23. Social model thinking
Attitudes, the
environment & systems
are a problem
We participate
in change for
equality
We have an
individual &
a collective
responsibility
we are allowed to
do what is right
for ourselves
we have a positive
image and are proud
of who we are
we have expertise
and might wish to
take risks
we are all equal
members of the
community

24. Barriers
attitudinal
structural
systemic

25. Reflective Practice
Plan
DoReview
What do you know?
What can we learn?What has changed?

26. Reflective Practice
Enlightenment (understanding)
• Understanding why things have come to be as they are in terms of
frustrating self’s realisation of desirable practice.
Empowerment
• Creating the necessary conditions within self whereby action to
realize desirable practice can be undertaken.
Emancipation (transformation)
• A stable shift in practice congruent with the realisation of desirable
practice

27. QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

28. Positive

29. “Vision without action is merely a dream
Action without vision just passes the time
Vision with action can change the world”
Joel Barker

30. Possible
We can:
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EYFS: Learning and Development

31. Reflective Practice
Plan
DoReview
New ideas New practice
New outcomes

32. Not Goodbye….
But a bientot
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