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Transcript of Tess McManus Disability Equality Training for Museum of London.
Tess McManus
Disability Equality Trainingfor Museum of London
Our space is:
• confidential
• a safe space to speak
• free of mobile phones
• comfortable
Working Together
By the end of the training, you will have:
• an understanding of the wider diversity of disabled people
• an understanding of disability from a removal of barriers perspective
• knowledge of a range of things that you can do to make the museum and the activities you run:
– More accessible to disabled visitors
– More accessible for disabled volunteers
• confidence and competence in your communication with disabled people
Today’s Aims
• Who are you ?• What do you do?• What are you expecting ?• Are you bringing any particular issues or
questions?
But…
Small group exercise:
Answer ‘True’ or ‘False’ to each of these statements
1. Most disabled people are born with their impairments - True of False?
2. Most people have a disabled family member or friend - True or False?
3. Disabled people are as likely to be employed as non disabled people - True or False?
4. Most disabled people are wheelchair users - True or False?
Facts & Figures Quiz
1. Most disabled people are born with their impairmentsFalse
www.equalityhumanrights.com
Facts & Figures Quiz - Answers
2. Most people have a disabled family member or friendTrue
The 2001 census states that there are 11 million disabled people in the UK. That equates to around 1:5 of the adult population.
www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/census2001.asp
Facts & Figures Quiz - Answers
3. Disabled people are as likely to be employed as non disabled peopleFalse
In 2006, there were 2.5 million disabled men and women in the UK without work. The number of disabled people claiming benefits has increased threefold since 1970.
DWP The employment rates of disabled people – 2006
Facts & Figures Quiz - Answers
4. Most disabled people are wheelchair users False
www.equalityhumanrights.com
Facts & Figures Quiz - Answers
• More than 1.4 million Londoners are disabled. National Statistics Online, Census 2001, www.statistics.gov.uk/census
• One in every 4 Londoners has a family member or close friend who is disabled.
www.londonfirst.co.uk/improving_london/disability.asp?L2=19
• The likelihood of becoming disabled increases with age: 8 per cent of Londoners between 16 and 24 are disabled, compared with 23 per cent of those between 55 and retirement.
Disabled people and the Labour Market in London: Key Fact, Analysis of the 2005 Annual Population Survey by Lorna Spence(2007) in DMAG Briefing 2007 - -5,
Greater London Authority.
London’s Disabled Population
Traditional (“Medical”) Model
“Confined to a wheelchair”
Can’t climb stairs
Is sick
Needs help
Has a bitter attitude
Needs a cure
Is housebound
Can’t use hands
Can’t walk
Can’t talk
Can’t see or hear
Needs a Doctor
Needs Institutional care
Social Model
Badly designed buildings
Hypocrisy
No parking spaces
Segregated Education
Lack of PAs
Poverty & low income
Inaccessible transport
Isolated families
No lifts
Prejudiced attitudes
Poor job prospects
Social Model…in an ideal world
Accessible transport
Part of the community
Inclusive attitudes
Good building design
Parking spaces
Inclusive Education
Support workers
Good income
Lifts
Good job prospects
Medical Model
Weak hands so cannot open jar
Social Model
Packaging needs re-designing
Example: Medical & Social Models
• Impairment: an injury, illness or congenital condition that causes or is likely to cause a long-term effect on physiological or psychological functions.
• Disability: the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in society on an equal level with others due to social and environmental barriers.
Impairment & Disability
• Physical • Informational / Communication• Attitudinal
Types of Discrimination/Barriers
Jane has an impairment. She has ME and gets tired after a couple of hours. She needs to sit with her feet slightly propped up. She has issues with short term memory once she becomes tired and gets headaches if she has to look at small print for any length of time.
As part of her PhD research she and would like to volunteer on the information desk at your museum.
What could be done to ensure that she is not disabled within that setting?
Impairment & Disability
• Mobility impairments
• Learning difficulties
• Mental health issues
• Visual impairments
• Hearing impairments
• Hidden impairments / long term health conditions
Impairment Groups
Equality Act 2010
• Cross-cutting legislative framework to safeguard the rights of individuals from ‘protected characteristic’ groups.
• Updates, simplifies and, in some areas, strengthens previous equalities legislation.
• Provides a single framework of discrimination law to protect individuals from unfair treatment.
What / who the Equality Act covers
The ‘protected characteristics’ are:• Age• Disability• Gender reassignment• Marriage and civil partnership• Race• Religion or belief• Sex• Sexual orientation
Discrimination is said to occur if:
• an individual receives no service or a lesser service for reasons relating to their disability (for example, a visually impaired person received less or no information about an exhibit then a non disabled person)
• a service is unreasonably difficult or impossible for a disabled person to use (for example, a short film clip about an exhibition has no subtitles and cannot be understood by a Deaf person)
Goods and Services
• Making a reasonable adjustment means doing things another way
• In the previous exercise, we identified a range of barriers which might impact on disabled people from different impairment groups
• Now we are going to look at solutions
Reasonable Adjustments
• Working in teams we would like you to list all the offensive terms you have ever seen and heard to describe disabled people e.g. in the media.
• You will not be asked to call them out if you feel uncomfortable doing so – we would just like you to discuss and list them.
Where Language Takes Us
Exercise: Language impacts on how people understand and interact with disabled people.
Handicap – the root of this word comes from “cap-i’-hand” and relates to begging.
Cripple – originates from the word “creep” and also relates to places where disabled people were allowed to beg, Cripplegate.
Invalid – relates to the ‘validity’ of wants and views of an individual.
Neb (Yiddish) Amathon (Gaelic) – both mean “fool” or “idiot” and show us that many cultures have a negative response to disability.
Where Language Takes Us Feedback