Understanding and awareness
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Our images of disability are socially and culturally conditioned. Negative attitudes and assumptions, often based on a lack of knowledge, can easily shape the way we behave towards disabled people. It may be necessary for you to re-evaluate your assumptions about disabled people before you can adopt more inclusive approaches to teaching.
This section
- provides information on statistics and trends in relation to disabled students in higher education
- considers depictions of impairment and disability and looks at language and representation
- introduces the medical and social models of disability and explains how they are relevant to teaching
- describes different disabilities.
Further resources
DEMOS: Online Materials For Staff Disability Awareness provides an excellent module on disability awareness for staff in higher education institutions.
The British Film Institute provides an online resource on models of disability, stereotyping and imagery.