Disabled people often work. So people in Human Resources (HR) have good reason to include us. They do that sometimes.

A newsletter from HRZone in Britain seems to favour voting Bremain in our referendum about European Union membership.

Those authors say that if we Brexited, 'The Government would surely face a difficult task if it wanted to ( Read more... )

I like this article about reverse integration. (Does it come up on your screen from the link I've given?)

A basketball player called Danielle Peers invented the term 'reverse integration' and tells us how she's used it with athletes, students and people in general. I'm impressed.

If you're near London, England, you might want to go to this symposium. 'This special symposium offers an invaluable opportunity for education and health practitioners, social workers, professionals from Jobcentres, the criminal justice system, third sector practitioners and other key stakeholders to assess the progress made in the adult autism ( Read more... )

Here's my contribution to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015.

( So you want to inspire young people? If you're disabled, don't bother. )

Can you help evalangui with this? I don't know Ev but I like what she's saying. People learn foreign languages to let them communicate with more people, not to learn narrow ablist stereotypes.

Some of us in this comm are feeling jolly for Xmas. Some of us have other things on our minds. Please be yourself and say whatever you want to say.

Do you like the way friendly_crips looks now? LJ's been playing silly bugs so I had to change the 'theme.' I chose this one ('Black and White 02') because it uses dark words on pale background, in a simple font. That's easy to read, for me, but I'll change it if people in this comm want it changed. Also, if your LJ account is a paid one, you can change what you ( Read more... )

Thanks to our own shehasathree I've learned a new word: the word kairotic. Being too kairotic is a bad thing. It can leave some people out. Don't like being expected to 'keep up' and 'be friendly' when it's all too much? You don't like places and times that are too kairotic.

If like me you're an academic, you know kairotic places and times all too well. shehasathree ( Read more... )

A week ago, I asked whether there would be access for disabled people to watch the Tour de France in its early stage, which is here in Yorkshire. Er, yes there is, sort of. I'm dipping into the telly coverage of this race from my comfortable sofa. It's beautiful to see those strong bodies doing what they do so well, in such glorious landscapes ( Read more... )

Here’s my contribution to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2014.

How ablism stopped me learning how to teach against ablismI started training to be a teacher. After a few weeks, I quit the course because of ablism (or disablism - they seem to mean the same thing ( Read more... )