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Quality,
Reliability and Consistency
Children
and Disability From their perspective
Rosie
has often observed that children are unashamedly forthright when
it comes to matters of disability.
Rosie
has worked with, and spoken to children of all ages about
disability and its impact on society.
From
Rainbows and Brownies, through to Reception classes at Primary
School,
Rosie
has tackled the compelling issues of how
do you brush your hair
who
helps you in the house
how
do you get from your wheelchair into bed
and even how
do you pick your nose!
Children
are very perceptive, and receptive to new ideas.
They come with none of the prejudice that is often found
with adults.
Rosie
has a simple philosophy. Tell
it how it is
and then the difference between a disabled and non-disabled
person holds no taboo.
For
children, there is no issue that cannot be resolved without a
simple answer, and their instinctive ability to portray things
as they see them is evidenced in the drawings prepared for Rosie
by members of a Brownie group.
Senior
School
children can also be incredibly keen to embrace the promotion of
equality. Rosie has
worked with a number of senior school groups throughout
South
Wales
.
Rosie
has helped Year 7 and 6th form Students at
Cardiff
High
School
develop a Disability INSET course for Teaching Staff and
Governors. The Year
7 students especially relished the role reversal of standing in
front of their teachers, and the success of the INSET was such
that Governors hope it will become a core feature of Governor
training in
Cardiff
.
At
RMS, we think the following two quotations aptly summarise the
perspective that children have on life and to disability issues
in particular:
The
only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott
Hamilton
Parents
can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but
the final forming of a person's character lies in their own
hands.
Anne
Frank
As
the children of today are the adults of tomorrow, shaping
positive ideas of disability will do much to help the cause of
disability equality in the future.
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