Course: Disability and a Good Life: Working with Disability

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 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 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 …

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, 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 …

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 …

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 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 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 …

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 …

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 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. …

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 …

In the above video, Gerard Goggin and Wayne Hawkins discuss the ways in which assistive technology and technology in general have been used as tools by disabled people in working …