Course: Disability and a Good Life: Working with Disability

In this final week of Working with Disability we explore the importance of advocacy and activism for people with disabilities and, at times, their families and supporters. In the above …

In the above video, Therese Sands discusses the use of global human rights frameworks as a systemic advocacy tool to make local change, and gives some useful examples of this. …

In the above video, Beth Haller and Gerard Goggin describe the importance of social media in activism today. As both Beth and Gerard point out, there is a huge range …

In the above video, Therese describes the importance of working independently from government influence to progress the rights of people with disabilities whilst simultaneously maintaining an open and productive dialogue …

As you come to the end of the Working with Disability course, it is worth remembering why advocacy and activism are so important for people with disabilities, their families and …

In the above video, Kamala describes the contributions she and her organisation, AKASA, have made to expanding opportunities for women with disabilities in war-affected communities in rural Sri Lanka and …

In the video above, Zoe Partington-Sollinger and Denise Beckwith give some examples of self-advocacy and individual advocacy. Zoe explains how certain experiences in her life drove her to become a …

In the last step, we touched on the importance of advocates supporting one another and working together to improve individual lives and communities. In this step, we look at Touching …

One of the simplest ways people with disabilities are challenging assumptions about being passive, dependent, and unproductive is by reclaiming stories of famous disabled people from the past who made …

In the above video, John Gilroy and Denise Beckwith describe some of the diverse ways that people with disabilities contribute. As the video presenters illustrate, people with disabilities are making …

In this step, we focus particularly on the future of support from the perspective of the Global North. Jan Walmsley and Eric Emerson discuss the move towards individualised funding and …

This week we look at the diverse contributions of people with disabilities. In the above video, Educators Louisa and Karen kick off the week by introducing different definitions of contribution. …

Despite the common representation of disabled people in Western societies as people who don’t contribute, people with disabilities do contribute in a multitude of different ways. The presenters in the …

In this step, we look at some of the ways that AKASA, an association of women with disabilities in rural Sri Lanka, has worked to support disabled women. As Kamala …

Just like last week when we unpacked what we meant by the word “access”, this week we’ll be exploring the concepts of “care” and “support” and the different meanings that …