Resources

Richard is committed to making these resources available for free download from this site, they can be used and translated for educational use. If you intend to publish them let us know and we will usually give permission.

All Equal, All Different

All Equal, All Different is a resource pack to develop an understanding of disability and promote inclusion in the Early Years and Key Stage 1. Flyer   The pack received a favourable review in The Guardian 27th April 2004, and was also reviewed  in The Teacher magazine published January/February 2005.

Pack Contents
Six Illustrated Story Books written by disabled people.

The Pillars of Space  download
Love to Learn Elliott's Story.   download
Moya and the Elephant Dance  download  mp3
My Dad Uses His Wheelchair   download
Scarlet's Big Adventure  download
Zahrah and 'The Place'  download

Alphabet Book (with finger spelling and Braille letters).  download 
Counting Book with BSL and the Braille System.  pdf  cover pdf  cover MS Word  contents (10.7MB MS Word) 
Disabled People who made a difference! Forty Five A4 Posters of historical and current disabled people whose lives have made a difference to the world and to society.  download pdf  text only  pictures 
Sixteen A3 Posters of Disabled Children in a classroom setting.  download  captions only
A Guide for Practitioners and Teachers   cover  contents  text only 

Altogether Better

Altogether Better published in association with Comic Relief. A comprehensive resouces pack covering the issues surrounding Inclusive Education - aimed at teachers, school govenors and others. 56 pages. download pdf

Altogether Better video - download by chapter.
Preview   download
1. The Full Story   download
2. The History   download
3. Trying to Change   download
4. Media Portrayal   download
5. Daily Discrimination   download
6. Civil Rights   download
7. Inclusion in Schools   download
8. What does it Take?   download
9. Break down the Wall   download

Are We Nearly There Yet?

The results of a survey carried out by a 16 year-old wheelchair-using school student of 100 wheelchair-using students in 2001, revealing a shocking lack of access and disability equality.

Summary Checklist for Action. pages 1 & 4  pages 2 & 3
Full Report is available from Eleni Burgess for £4 including postage. e-mail

Building Schools for the Future and Disability Equality

On 15th March 2010 Richard was asked to prepare and present to the Children and Young People and Schools Equality Network Meeting on Equality Impact Assessment and Building Schools for the Future.

See attached PowerPoint.

The main conclusions were that Equality Officers had to educate their commissioning officers that BSF was procurement and that equality impact assessment based on the Local Authority and school access plans and strategies and the Duty to Promote Disability Equality had to be utilised to ensure that the public private partnerships delivered good access and equality for disabled children and young people. Disabled peoples organisations and access auditors needed to be involved on checking the plans were fit for purpose. Because half of BSF is being delivered through the Private Finance Initiative vigilance was needed backed by good information about good access.

Good Guidance is available -

Designing for disabled children and children with special educational needs: Guidance for mainstream and special schools Bulletin102.
http://www.partnershipsforschools.org.uk/documents/Design/BB102.pdf

Briefing Framework for Secondary School Projects Revision of BB82: Area Guidelines for Schools (Secondary section) Bulletin 98 2004.
http://www.partnershipsforschools.org.uk/documents/Design/BB98.pdf

Briefing Framework for Primary School Projects Incorporating primary school revision to BB82: Area Guidelines for Schools Bulletin 99 2006.
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/9422/BB99 for web.pdf

Building Bulletin 93 (BB93): Acoustic design of schools.
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/resourcesfinanceandbuilding/schoolbuildings/environ/acoustics/

Developing Disability Equality in the UK

25th June 2009 NNATPIP Conference in Birmingham.  Richard gave a keynote to the National Network for Advisory Teachers for Physically Impaired Pupils. Richard's presentation is available for download

30th June 2009 Nottinghamshire SENCO Conference.  Richard gave a keynote at the Conference and ran two workshops. Richard's presentation is available for download.

July 2009 Tower Hamlets consultancy.  In July Richard undertook a consultancy for Tower Hamlets on their schools Disability Equality Schemes. Out of 98 schools and nursery schools 70 schemes were evaluated and a report prepared for schools and the Council. Each school had its scheme evaluated and comments made on how to improve it. This followed two training sessions one for primary and one for secondary schools. In addition Richard visited 12 schools for half a day at their request to help develop their disability equality schemes. Richard's presentation is available for download.

Disability Equality in Education

"After 17 Years" - the history of the charity Disability Equality in Education. download

Two further essays on the history of the charity -
DEE in 2006.     DEE by Anna Sullivan.

Disability Equality in the Classroom.

Activities for the classroom. - A set of 44 resource cards for use in the classroom covering many different aspects of Disability Equality. Details on index1 and index2 pages.

Download cards 1a-6b  cards 7a-10b  cards 11a-16b  cards 17a-21b

Disability Equality in the Classroom - A Human Rights Issue.

Richard's groundbreaking book, commissioned in 1990 by ILEA.   text only     Full version (24MB)

 

Disability Rights Commission

Citizenship and Disability: A classroom resource pack for teachers - Key stages 3 and 4.
Video "Talk" 13 mins. download (44MB)
Resource pack book. download pdf (38MB)

Disabling Imagery

A joint project betwen DEE and the British Film Institute. Provides a wealth of information on how disability has been represented in moving image from the earliest days. The approach is from a disability equality and human rights perspective, which draws on the collective thinking of the Disabled People's Movement. The project website is still available at http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/teaching/disability/
Source materials available for download are -
Teaching Guide   Cover  Text
Website source   text  pictures

Disability in the Media   leaflet.

Disablist Bullying

Young disabled People and bullying at school. Powerpoint presentation. (15MB) download

Duty to Promote Disability Equality

Two training courses aimed at educating teachers and staff on the implications of the Disability Discrimination Act (2005).
Version for Primary schools   pdf version     MS Word (35MB)    
Version for Secondary schools   pdf version     MS Word (30MB)    

Early Years

Inclusion in Early Years coursebook   pdf version     MS Word (17MB)
Powerpoint slides (18MB)

Everybody In - Developing Inclusion in Early Years and Key Stage One.   pdf version     MS Word
 

Education, Equality and Human Rights

Equality or Utilitarianism? Developing Inclusive Education a contradiction in terms: the Education and Inspections Bill 2006. Article for FORUM, Volume 48, Number 1, 2006

Disability equality - Confronting the oppression of the past.   download

Inclusive education or special educational needs - Meeting the challenge of disability discrimination in schools.   download

Together We Are Better   download

Everybody Welcome Here

Everybody is Welcome Here Secondary Disability Equality in Practice. A poster campaign for secondary schools.   Flyer     Download Posters 1     Download Posters 2    

Free Up Your Life

A project to explore how disabled young people feel about themselves and how they should make sense of living their lives as disabled people.

Final Report     front cover     back cover     text only version    

 

Further and Adult Education

Disability Audit for a Community Learning and Skills Service.   download    

Post Schools : Further Education and Adult Education.   download    

 

Higher Education

Higher Education disability equality training - generic course book.   pdf version     MS Word (25 MB)

Impact of the Duty to Promote Disability Equality

The Impact of the Duty to Promote Disability Equality in Schools in England: A Report for the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). DEE were awarded a tender by DCSF in July 2008 to carry out a number of tasks, this is the report on four of these:

1. To fulfil the research function by organising and delivering workshops for children and young people in July 2008. The purpose of these events would be to identify the positive differences that the disability equality duty has made, and barriers and gaps that remain to be overcome, plus ideas on how gaps might be filled and barriers reduced. The events will also refresh our understanding of the priorities for change of disabled children and young people
2. Techniques to be developed to be inclusive of all access needs and ensure that non-verbal children participate fully.
3. The findings of these workshops to be collated and presented in a report identifying key priorities and evidence of success and barriers to be included in the Secretary of State's Report
4. Desk research to identify strong examples of Disability/Single Equality Schemes from schools and guidance/schemes from local authorities.

Download report 10MB MS Word.
Scores school DES. download.
An evaluation of school Disability Equality Schemes (DES) in a London Borough. download.

In Defence of Inclusion

"Warnock challenges the rights of disabled children to inclusion." In 2005 DEE placed an open letter, signed by over 600 people and organisations, as an advert in the TES issue 8th July 2005. download  

International Presentations and Training

General
European Equal Employment Project - A Human Rights Approach to Developing Disability Equality.   pdf version     Powerpoint version (62MB)  

Developing Inclusive Education in Southern Africa.   Powerpoint Slides     Workbook     DVD Cover    
DVD extracts at www.redweather.co.uk/developing-inclusive-education-in-south-africa.html

Implementing Inclusive Education - A Commonwealth Guide to Implementing Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.   pdf version     MS Word    

It's About Ability - An explanation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. pdf version     text only version    

Presentation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government.   Powerpoint slides    

India North South Dialogue Dehli 2005.
Inclusion, Empowerment and the Vital Role of Disabled People and Their Thinking   download    
Slide presentation   pdf version     Powerpoint version (26MB)    

Argentinia - October 2005.
In October 2005 Richard accompanied by Tara Flood went to Argentina at the invitation of the British Council at the British Embassy in Argentina. Two presentations were made to large groups of teachers (200 & 300) and resources were shared including the Index for Inclusion. Spanish and Portuguese versions attached.
Index for Inclusion (Castellano).  download
Indice de Inclusion Carpeta verde.  download
A number of meetings were held with Buenos Aires and La Plata Regional Education Ministries and the National Ministry of Education. We held a meeting with disabled people and addressed a breakfast seminar of influential people, and attended a reception and launch of a book on disability rights by Par Foundation.
The Challenge of Developing Inclusive Education preview pdf (4MB)   Powerpoint (48MB)
The Challenge of Developing Inclusive Education (Spanish) preview pdf (4MB)   Powerpoint (46MB)

New York August 2006 - Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire International present Disability Equality Training and Inclusive Education UN New York Tuesday 22nd August 2006   download    

Russia - April 2008
Partnerships: A Journey Toward Inclusion - Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Ukhta, St. Petersburg, Tomsk 23rd April 2008.   download    

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia March 2009.   Richard was invited to give a keynote presentation to 3rd International Conference on Disability and Rehabilitation. The Conference theme was Scientific Research in the Field of Disability. 4000 people attended over the 4 days, many of them disabled people. Richards presentation was entitled Giving a Voice to the excluded: lessons from developing inclusive education. Download in pdf format   Powerpoint format (17MB)  

Dakar Senegal ANCEFA 2nd General Assembly 6th to 8th April 2009.   Richard was invited to attend and contribute on developing inclusive education. ANCEFA is the African Network Campaigning on Education for All. It comprises national councils of teachers and civil society organisations in 32 Sub-Saharan countries. With 40 million children not attending primary education ion Sub-Saharan Africa and around 40% of these are disabled there is a pressing need to include the inclusion of disabled children in the campaign. Richard presented and raised the profile of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities and submitted comments on their action plan. Richard's presentation is available for download.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 26th -30th April 2009.   Richard was invited by the Victor Peneda Foundation to take part in leading training for Principals, teachers and supervisors from 10 primary schools. These will form a pilot scheme for inclusive schools from 2009. Richard's presentation is available for download.

St. Petersburg, Russia 18th to 21st May 2009.  Richard led a four day seminar on developing inclusive Education with participants from 5 Russian Cities:- St Petersburg, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Ukhta, Tomsk. This was the third seminar led by Richard under this collaboration with Perspektiva funded by the European Union. A follow up of visits to each City and one day seminars and meetings with officials will take place in Autumn/Winter 2009/2010.

Richard's presentation is available for download in both English  and  Russian
Also available for download are -

• the seminar workbooks (in Russian) Workbook 1  Workbook 2  Workbook 3 
• "Effective Inclusion Education" English  Russian
• "Essential Viewing RAP Early Years" English  Russian
• "Essential Viewing" Russian
• "Index of Inclusive Education" English  Russian
• "Learning Styles - Dyslexia" English  Russian
• "Campaigning for Human Rights - Lessons from History" English

Paris, France 11th June 2009.  Richard delivered a keynote address to the French National Council on Disability- Conseil Français des Personnes Handicapées Pour les Questions Européennes (CFHE). Richard concentrated on explaining the struggle for disability rights in the UK and the legislation that has resulted. Richard's presentation is available for download in both English  and  French
Note that each file is approx 53Mbytes in size and will take a long time to download!

Germany - June 2010.
On 21st and 22nd June 2010 Richard was invited to take part in a Conference in Germany of the 16 federal state ministers of education and culture examining the educational and legal aspects of implementing the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities. The German Education system is highly stratified with a large number of children attending special education. Children aged three to six may attend kindergarten. After that school is compulsory for nine or ten years. From grades 1 through 4 children attend elementary school (Grundschule), where the subjects taught are the same for all. Then, after the 4th grade, they are separated according to their academic ability and the wishes of their families, and attend one of three different kinds of schools: Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium.

The Hauptschule (grades 5-9 in most German states) teaches the same subjects as the Realschule and Gymnasium, but at a slower pace and with some vocational-oriented courses. It leads to part-time enrolment in a vocational school combined with apprenticeship training until the age of 18.

The Realschule (grades 5-10 in most states) leads to part-time vocational schools and higher vocational schools. It is now possible for students with high academic achievement at the Realschule to switch to a Gymnasium on graduation.

The Gymnasium (grades 5-13 in most states) leads to a diploma called the Abitur and prepares students for university study or for a dual academic and vocational credential. The most common education tracks offered by the standard Gymnasium are classical language, modern language, and mathematics-natural science.

Grundschule teachers recommend their students to a particular school based on such things as academic achievement, self confidence and ability to work independently. However, in most states, parents have the final say as to which school their child attends following the fourth grade. About one third go to each type of school. There are also special schools run by separately trained special educators. In 2008 there were 407,710 pupils in special schools or 4.8% of the school population - the highest number in Europe. Parent initiatives have led to inclusion in primary particularly in Bremen and Hamburg areas. There is less inclusion in secondary.

Article 24 poses a big challenge to the German Education System and German teachers. The Conference was timely contributing to a discussion paper on developing inclusion to be produced in November 2010 by the Ministers of the 16 Federal States. Key issues identified included the need to train all teachers to teach all children. The need to turn special schools into resource centres for mainstream schools. Funding. Moving away from rigid assessment criteria to more flexible approach. The need to reduce labelling and reliance on medical approaches. The need to involve parents, young people and disabled peoples organisations in planning the future.

Richard in his presentation showed some film clips from UK and South Africa he had filmed and talked about the lessons from observing the development of inclusion around the world. See PowerPoint in English and German.

United Nations - September 2010
Richard attended the Conference of State Parties(3) to the United Nation Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities as the delegate of United Kingdom Disabled People's Council. This was held from 1st to 3rd September at the UN in New York. Attached is Richard's report download
Richard was asked to contribute from the floor to the Roundtable on Article 24 and its implementation. His contribution can be found at http://www.un.org/disabilities/documents/COP/COP3/richard_rieser.doc and can also be downloaded from this website here.

Invisible Children

The Report of the Joint Conference On Children, Images and Disability. Organised and published by Save The Children and The Integration Alliance. preview (pdf)     full report(pdf 28MB)    

Save the Children welcomed the chance to work with the Integration Alliance to organise the Invisible Children Conference. We believe that all disabled people have a right to full and equal participation in social, economic, educational, cultural and political spheres of life. For the children and families with whom we work this means working to remove barriers which prevent the integration of disabled children into local services and enabling families to exercise choices in all aspects of their lives. Save the Children believes that the negative way disabled people are often portrayed in images available to children and young people re-inforces discrimination and contributes to the barriers which exclude disabled people and deny choice.  

Making it Work

Making it Work - Removing Disability Discrimination. Making it Work is a pack of materials to support:

• training on the schools' duties in the Disability Discrimination Act; and
• implementation of the duties.

Whilst the main focus of the pack is on the disability discrimination duties, one of the key purposes of the pack is to bring these duties together with the other two main sets of duties that govern the way that schools and LEAs provide for disabled pupils, namely the SEN duties and the planning duties. These duties are set within the framework of wider government guidance and the broader context of developing inclusive schooling. pdf Guide     text only     Powerpoint presentation     notes     slides text    

Outdoor trips and activities

Disabled Pupils/Students and Outside Activities by Richard Rieser. A detailed coverage of the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act on Schools, Colleges and Universities.   download

Also see Off The Premises Handbook published by Optimus 3rd August 2009, Editor Caroline Stagg   Amazon link

QCA Disability in Curriculum Project

On 2nd October 2009 a successful Steering Group meeting was held in London. The PowerPoint presentation is available in pdf format. download

Below you can download some of the materials that have been developed with schools working on the project.

Disabled People who have made a Difference. download
Impairment, Barriers and Solutions. download
Language and Terminology. download
Making Sense of Disability. download
Resources to Promote Disability Equality in the Curriculum. download
Understanding Disability - The Social Model of Disability and Human Rights. download
Ways of Promoting Positive Attitudes Toward Disabled People For Pupils. download
When part of your body does not work KS2. download

Secondary English
Poems with a disability focus.  download
English Work in KS3 and KS4.  download
Examples in the news.  download
Hacked Off - A Journalist's guide to disability.  download
Stereotypes - Defying stereotypes: the way forward.  download
What is in the Headlines?  download
A case of human rights by Simon Brisenden.  download
Richard III and the portrayal of disability. download

Secondary Maths
Maths Activities on Disability and Employment in the United Kingdom.  download
Disability and employment statistics.  download
Factsheet - Employment.  download
Disability and employment statistics definitions.  download
Data and Information on Disability and Employment in United Kingdom.  download

More on QCDA Qualification and Curriculum Development Authority at our dedicated page.

Race and Disability

Black and Ethnic Minority Project report by Krishna Birdy.
This project had two primary aims. Firstly to introduce Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) parents of disabled children to the benefits of inclusive education by ensuring they were aware of the new legislation (Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001) affecting their disabled children's educational rights. Secondly, to give BME young disabled people an opportunity to discuss issues relating to their disability and culture and encourage them to become disability equality trainers, presenting positive role models for their disabled peers. download report    

Raising Disability in the Secondary Curriculum

A Web-based resource for schools and teachers compiled by Richard Rieser.

Real People Real Lives

Real People Real Lives is a resource pack developed to challenge the misconceptions held about disabled people and to promote inclusion in Key Stage 2 and 3 as part of the Personal, Health and Social Education Curriculum. The pack could also be used in any settings that involve young people or training for diversity.   flyer   guide pdf  guide .doc  cards  posters

Reasonable Adjustment Project

The charity, Disability Equality in Education was commissioned by the DfES in April 2003 to produce a training manual, with linked index DVDs to show how to make Reasonable Adjustments. The pack was released in April 2005, for use by schools and professionals associated with schools.
Related material available :-

• Briefing Powerpoint Slides download
• The Process of Developing and Managing Reasonable Adjustments   download
• The Process of making Reasonable Adjustments   download
• Reasonable Adjustments ice breaker Q&A (Powerpoint) download
• Making Reasonable Adjustments Workshop   Powerpoint slides
• RAP Forms   RAP forms     DVD section 2 form
• RAP briefing   download
• Examples of Reasonable Adjustments   download
• On the Road with RAP   pdf     MS Word
• DVD Cover   download
• Article for the TES September 2004   MS Word

School Inclusion

Inclusion in Schools course book   MS Word     text only

Disabled Pupils/Students and Outside Activities by Richard Rieser. A detailed coverage of the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act on Schools, Colleges and Universities.   download

Handout Cambridge Partners in Policymaking   download

Inclusion Education and Human Rights   download

Social Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD) - Applying the Social Model of Behaviour   download

SCOPE - Speaking for Ourselves

Speaking for Ourselves may prove to be one of the most important projects Scope has ever undertaken in its half a century of existence. First, because as the project's title implies, it will enable the many voices of the people Scope empowers to be heard better more clearly, more effectively and more passionately by a wider audience than ever before. This is important, particularly to those at school still learning about society and life and their role in it, because the history of disabled people is a vital part of the history of us all.

Scope Speaking for Ourselves Guide   download
Scope Speaking for Ourselves Timeline   download

UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

The UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities: An opportunity to develop inclusion and disability rights around the world. download

It's About Ability - An explanation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. pdf version     text only version