#Disability panel on #QandA includes 3 actually disabled experts, Paralympic gold medallist Dylan Alcott OAM, actress Kiruna Stamell, & lawyer Graeme Innes AM.
Catia Malaquias (lawyer/ NFP board member) & Bruce Bonyhady AO (Director Disability Institute) have disabled children.
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Catia Malaquias asks: what does it take to get this right? She notes Italy is celebrating 40 years of closing special schools. Canada has other examples of inclusive schooling. It is a fundamental human right for disabled kids to have a choice about their schooling.
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Bullying, prejudice and exclusion of disabled children in mainstream schools is reflective of what happens in workplaces. But by law workplaces are supposed to be inclusive. Schools need to uphold the same inclusions. - Dylan Alcott
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'Let's just deliver what was the great hope of four or five years ago.' - Graeme Innes NDIS is a great concept, let's make it work. - Kiruna Stamell 'We need funding locked in and legislated' - Innes
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TW DFV: young audience member notes media reports on Margaret River murder-suicide changed when it was revealed the children killed were autistic. Media was sympathetic as if autistic kids are a burden. How do we change this dangerous perception? https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/grandfather-suspected-as-seven-shot-dead-in-wa/news-story/d208efd6c68132531cefe11582c0934b …
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Media portrayal of autistic people as a 'burden' perpetuates a negative cycle, especially by excluding the voices of actually autistic people. - Catia Malaquias, recommending this
@BackgroundBrief report to explore media & societal ableism: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-23/when-carers-kill/9894514 …#QandAShow this thread -
Social housing and other options for independent living for disabled people is important not just to autonomy for disabled people and parents, but also also has implications in other realms, such as when disabled people want to settle down with their partners.
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more money is given to the school Chaplin's over disability services in schools...
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