At the heart of new legislation is an imperative to understand the distinctive nature of

disabled people’s oppression. Only then can we tackle the discrimination they face. Disability equality will therefore be important to those faced with the job of challenging inequality

within our services. This book presents clear ideas and simple steps that will help you ensure that disabled people are fully respected and included in the

life of your organisation.

We believe in and follow the social model understanding of disability and the cultural model of Deafness. Our use of the term ‘Disabled people’ reflects this, as does our description of Deaf and Disabled people and organisations

Tom Shakespeare break the social separation between disabled people, defined by their flawed bodies, and non-disabled people, defined by their perfect bodies. The strong social model does this by denying the flawed body and claiming that what defines disabled people is oppression and exclusion

 It was really important to introduce my sister in order to explain the following friendship - and what it taught me about being an ally.

There are an estimated 1.2 million Deaf and Disabled people in London and DDPOs provide essential support to this section of the community. DDPOs protect and uphold Disabled people’s rights, campaign for equality and inclusion and provide a range of peer-led accessible services that support Disabled people to access services and entitlements, challenge discrimination and exclusion and have choice, control and independence

Employees at all levels of your organisation probably need to be better informed about disability, including the practical issues that might arise.

Disability Equality Training will extend their understanding and help them capitalise on the value that disabled customers and employees bring.

All Toucan Diversity training includes sessions on:

Equality training Looks at how society affects a person’s experience of their disability. Your team will learn how disability is a social and human rights issue, rather than a medical problem.

Disability Equality Training explores the concept of people being disabled by society's barriers and attitudes, highlighting the role society in the removal of those barriers and in the changing of attitudes. The training may include customer care, etiquette and appropriate language for instance.
The training will always be provided by a person with personal experience of disability.

The word methodology used to scare me, and it took me a long while to understand its meaning and its relevance to research and writing. After a conversation with my supervisor, in which I explained the difficulties I was having finding a 'paper' trail, he suggested I put these constraints down in a methodology chapter placed before the ‘literature review’. After staring at him somewhat agog, I did just this. Indeed, viewed as distortions, or bad reporting, the misrepresentation of disabled people’s interests in storytelling explained a wider context and impediments to the research.  

The Equality Act 2010 says that you must not be discriminated against because:

It is not unlawful discrimination to treat a disabled person more favourably than a non-disabled person.

We are Disability Equality Scotland.  We are a membership organisation for disabled people and disability groups/organisations.

If you are a disabled person, we want to hear from you.  We want to hear about your experiences of accessibility, inclusion and equality, good or bad!  This information helps us when we meet with key decision makers who are responsible for ensuring equality and human rights are in place with policies and the law.

Become a member with us and join over 800 disabled people, sharing their views on access and inclusion. Together we can make Scotland accessible and inclusive for all!.