Salamanca Oct 21st-23rd

Richard Attended the Global Conference on Inclusive Education- Confronting the Gap: Rights, Rhetoric, Reality? Return to Salamanca - held at the University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (October 21st to 23rd 2009).

Here he gave two presentations on Advocacy for Inclusion and Developing Inclusion in Early Years Education and he drafted the resolution that was adopted by the Conference (see attached). The Conference organiser Inclusion International produced two really useful documents. These can be found on the Inclusion International website.

Better Education for All: When We Are Included Too recounts the situation of our members around the world - how inclusion works, but how exclusion is the norm. It demonstrates how children and youth with disabilities are being left out of mainstream global processes to achieve Education for All (EFA), and how inclusion can improve education systems and ensure that the goals of EFA are reached. A huge network was involved in the research process. Several members used the process of gathering information as a way to mobilize around the issue of inclusive education, and as a way to gather information that they can use in monitoring their government's activities. In all, 75 countries participated in the research. The report was launched in Salamanca at Global Conference on Inclusive Education. download report

The Implications of the Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for Education for All. This document examines a number of Articles from the Convention and their impact on Education for All and Inclusive Education. download    See Articles 3,5,7,8,9,23,24,27,29,32,33.

For the full text of United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - download