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Angela Hart

Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:18:05 +1200

It's an impaired thread :)

Beautiful!

Sacha

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:54:00 +1200

Reckon. Can't have praise going astray.

Russell Brown

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:33:40 +1200

Particularly since it just “disappeared” my second attempt to respond. Doesn’t like me saying great to see this Sacha

Well, we're going to have to get this looked into.

Sacha

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:11:31 +1200

Cheers, Lilith

Sacha

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:10:49 +1200

* some of my fingers are always crossed

Sacha

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:10:15 +1200

Thank you (fingers crossed this one stays there).

WaterDragon

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:50:08 +1200

Particularly since it just "disappeared" my second attempt to respond. Doesn't like me saying great to see this Sacha

WaterDragon

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:47:55 +1200

I've always had my doubts about e space.

Lilith __

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:54:28 +1200

constantly being an unpaid teacher about disability is draining

This, so much.
Great post, thanks Sacha.

Sacha

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:06:34 +1200

It's an impaired thread :)

Russell Brown

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:46:57 +1200

Sorry to hear that. I did not see anything.
Russell?

Yes, I saw that comment — and no, it's clearly not there now.

Sorry about that, WaterDragon — that's really unusual.

Sacha

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:38:14 +1200

Sorry to hear that. I did not see anything.
Russell?

WaterDragon

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:13:01 +1200

I put up a post of response/congratulation/comment yesterday following Verica's post and it has been disappeared. What happened?

Verica Rupar

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:12:09 +1200

Hi Sacha, four universities involved in IJI project want to revitalize journalism curriculum around the idea of inclusive society. We encourage students to rethink their relationship with sources (research after research confirms that sources are usually officials and white, male, upper middle class, not in a wheelchair...) IJI project started…

Sacha

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:34:48 +1200

Yes, and simulation has big problems replicating the actual experience.

linger

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:23:46 +1200

Bloody hell. What does that status "official language" mean if it doesn't include status as an accreditable subject in the state education system!?

linger

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:19:46 +1200

simulate the real experiences of the disabled. I may be misremembering, but wasn’t that one of the episodes of The Big Experiment (after the ones on gender and race)?

Hebe

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:48:40 +1200

One of my sons has significantly reduced hearing. This year, going to a new school, he decided to study NZ Sign Language. Then he thought to take it as an NCEA subject, assuming that – like another official New Zealand language, Maori – it would be an approved course.

He…

Kumara Republic

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:14:36 +1200

Here's an ideal reality TV pitch, much as I hate the idea of reality TV, period.

It'll be called something like "A Mile In My Shoes", and features a selection of ableists who are forced to spend a week in a special suit that prevents movement of the legs and/or…

Sacha

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:27:28 +1200

Thank you Verica. Can you tell us more about the disability-specific aspects of your programme please. I couldn’t see anything.

I was appalled when the NZ Human Rights Commission snubbed disability from its own 'diversity in journalism' work some years back.

Verica Rupar

Tue, 15 Apr 2014 09:54:04 +1200

Thanks Russell for opening this space and thanks Sacha for the thoughtful first post. True, the content is missing from educational and media coverage. That’s why AUT and Canterbury, along with two European universities, started the Inclusive Journalism Initiative project. Details can be found here: http://inclusivejournalisminitiative.com.

Hebe

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:45:56 +1200

...understanding where my sons are at. They’re not broken, they’re just living in a world that doesn’t work like they do.

Yes.

Sacha

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:18:14 +1200

Cheers, Jason. I'll put that presentation up over at my own blog soon.

And yes, impaired empathy appears to be a widespread problem in our world. Hopefully we can help with that. Looking forward to some of the other voices on Access.

Jason Kemp

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 16:43:34 +1200

A great start Sacha. Thanks for that talk at our 2010 wordcamp on disabilities and what that means for web accessibility – it opened up a range of perspectives for developers and other web users to build into their projects.

On a more personal note – have since discovered that…

Robert Harvey

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 14:42:31 +1200

Apropos and coincidentally, here's a link:
https://medium.com/matter/22979c8ec9d6
"The silencing of the Deaf : How high-tech implants are being blamed for killing an entire subculture."
Best wishes, Bob.

Sacha

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:18:29 +1200

A note on quotes – as Russell says above, this site uses its own way to mark them in the text: you just type pointy brackets like this (minus the gaps) < q > words < /q >

Hilary Stace

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:13:31 +1200

We have the right words in the 2001 New Zealand Disability Strategy

'Disability is not something individuals have. What individuals have are impairments. They may be physical, sensory, neurological, psychiatric, intellectual or other impairments.

Disability is the process which happens when one group of people create barriers by designing a…

Adrian Coysh

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:07:27 +1200

Our world faces some great challenges that require cunning, cooperation and tenacity to overcome. Disabled people offer all of that, hard-won from daily experience. We are also your neighbours, your family, your future. Fellow citizens. Fellow humans.

Well put Sacha. The principal reason given for the appalling rate of unemployed…

Sacha

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:49:08 +1200

There are some theory developments about that relationship between the individual and our broader context. We'll have time to delve in later posts (and plenty of different angles on it). A privilege to start the conversation here.

Russell Brown

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:28:42 +1200

The view that it’s deficits in our built digital and physical environments that causes disability not an individuals impairments is an important one that more people need to understand.

That’s been very important for me in understanding where my sons are at. They’re not broken, they’re just living in a…

Angus Blair

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:51:53 +1200

Great new space, it's awesome to have more people having this conversation.

The view that it's deficits in our built digital and physical environments that causes disability not an individuals impairments is an important one that more people need to understand. Thanks for bringing it to the fore here. I…

TracyMac

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:36:04 +1200

Great initiative.

And thanks for the message that society is about adjusting, Sasha. For everyone.

Hilary Stace

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:22:47 +1200

Thanks so much for this new initiative, Russell. Also for starting and supporting humans for so many years. A significant chunk of our recent autism (and some more general disability) history is documented there so I hope it can be archived safely. The post by Giovanni on his daughter's diagnosis…

Russell Brown

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:43:33 +1200

Kia ora, Sacha, and congratulations for kicking off Access, Public Address's new disability blog.

Access is conceived as a place to speak about disability issues with a receptive mainstream audience. Public Address readers (and bloggers) have shared their experiences of disability many times over the years and I felt there…

Public Address

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:43:33 +1200

Discussion from blog post.