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As debate continues over welfare reforms, charities are concerned that disabled students will lose out Alaina Sonn is style-savvy and has an eye for colour. Passionate about fashion, she hopes to study for a degree in design and textiles. “I want the chance to learn more,” she says
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Clive Robbins obituary
Educationist and pioneer of music therapy for children with disabilities Together with the American composer and pianist Paul Nordoff, the British educationist Clive Robbins, who has died aged 84, founded the Nordoff Robbins approach to what they called “creative music therapy”. During their 16-year partnership, they demonstrated music’s capacity for reaching many developmentally and multiply disabled children. They did this by developing improvisation strategies to enable the children to become more communicative, socially aware, expressive and emotionally balanced.
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Don’t blow Paralympics budget on opening ceremony
Disabled people are excited about the Paralympics in 2012. But they would rather have money to eat than watch a couple of ceremonies The results of a recent survey by disability charity Scope suggested that many disabled people think that the Paralympic Games are a waste of money. When I first read this, I was more than a little surprised
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Paralympics: disabled travellers lament lack of access at tube and bus stations
London transport is ‘getting worse’ in the runup to the 2012 Games and could turn legacy claims into an embarrassment Iman Saab has just been left behind by a London bus that she needed to take because her two nearest underground stations are inaccessible to her. After 20 minutes, another half-empty bus arrives but once again she is unable to board. The reason
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Bristol’s deaf community feel under siege | Charlie Swinbourne
A local centre will lose £240,000 in the latest in a line of attacks on services and education for deaf people in the area Last week, it was announced that Bristol Deaf Centre , which celebrated 125 years of serving the local deaf community just two years ago, will lose £240,000 worth of funding from Bristol city council. This money paid for their core funding, equipment service and special projects
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Deaf pupils will bear the brunt of education cuts | Cathy Heffernan
My school was staffed by experienced teachers of the deaf. Such was their expertise that we didn’t even notice it – they were just teachers to us, the way teachers in mainstream schools are just teachers to their pupils.
What we did notice was how clueless new teachers or subs covering maternity leave were when they first arrived at the school. They spoke as they wrote on the board much to our amusement – did they not know we needed to lipread? They puzzled over how to work the microphones and group hearing aid systems each classroom had as we sat back and sniggered. They panicked when we signed to each other. They spoke too fast and lost their tempers as we ignored them, oblivious that we couldn’t understand them.
But working in a school full of ruthlessly honest students soon had them whipped into shape. Within a few months, they were changed teachers. Some went on to do a masters in deaf education and became even more competent. At this point, they became “just teachers”.
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Deaf pupils will bear the brunt of education cuts | Cathy Heffernan
