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AbilityNet is a charity that brings the benefits of computer technology to adults and children with disabilities. Through a number of centres around the country it offers a comprehensive range of services to disabled people, professionals, employers and statutory bodies. It provides free information and advice on any aspect of the use of a computer by someone with a disability, individual assessment of technology needs, adapted computer equipment with full training and technical support, a programme of awareness education, and consultancy for employers on system and workstation adaptations.
Web Site: www.abilitynet.co.uk
Inclusion Now
The Alliance for Inclusive Education (allfie),
Disability Equality in Education (diseed), and Parents for Inclusion launched a
newsletter, 'Inclusion Now', in Spring 2001.
Many other training resources, such as books and videos, are available from these 3 UK organisations. Their contact details are as follows:
Parents for Inclusion
Unit 2
70 South Lambeth
Road
London SW8 1RL
Tel: +44 (0)20 7735 7735
Email:
info@parentsforinclusion.org
Disability Equality in Education
Unit 4Q Leroy House
436
Essex Road
London N1 3QP
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7359 2855
Fax: +44 (0) 20
7354 3372
Email: r.rieser@btinternet.com
The Alliance for Inclusive Education
Room 1, Winchester House,
Kennington Park Business Estate,
Cranmer Road,
London SW9 6EJ
Tel: 020 7735 5277
Fax: 020 7735 3828
Email: info@allfie.org.uk
new initiatives in mental health and development
People with mental health problems are very marginalized by society. Almost every society attaches stigma to mental illness. It is this social ostracism that makes it so difficult for mentally ill people to play a full part in the development of their own community.
By starting BasicNeeds (composed of two trusts, one in India and one in UK) we aim to break new ground supporting initiatives in mental health and development. We will begin by focusing on mentally ill people in India, Sri Lanka and subsequently several African countries to include Ghana and probably Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. In time we will also focus on Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Extreme poverty exacerbates mental illness and also makes it much harder for individuals to manage their own recovery and the illness itself. It follows that integrated development programmes, which incorporate forms of income and employment generation, can go a long way to alleviate the difficulties faced by a mentally ill person.
The families of mentally ill people are affected not only by endemic poverty but also by both the mental illness of their family member and by social stigma. They too need the support of suitable development programmes including the chance to earn income.
Thus we have a vision where full rights are restored to mentally ill people and that the stigma and poverty attaching to them is dramatically reduced.
Web site: www.basicneeds.org.uk
The Chronic Poverty Research Centre is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs, which exists:
Web site: www.chronicpoverty.org
CRIN is a membership network of organisations who are involved in children's rights, committed to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention or CRC) and to sharing information.
Visit the CRIN web site.
CSIE is the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education. It is a British independent educational charity, a national centre funded mainly by donations from trusts and foundations. It gives information and advice about inclusive education and related issues. The Centre, which was set up in 1982, is fully committed to working towards an end to segregated education. Inclusion means all. This commitment is based on human rights principles.
Visit the CSIE web site.
The CSNSIE is concerned with developing research, teaching and resources in order to support the movement towards inclusive education. A major part of the Centre's work will be to publish and disseminate information, to offer guidance and advice to parents and professionals, and share and exchange research knowledge with Hong Kong and the region.
Web Site: http://www.ied.edu.hk/csnsie
The Disability Archive UK provides disabled people, students and scholars with an interest in this and related fields, access to the writings of those disability activists, writers and allies. This service is hosted by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds.
Web Site: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/archiveuk/index.html
Disability World is a web-zine dedicated to advancing an exchange of information and research about the international independent living movement of people with disabilities. The web-zine is the heart of a larger project, IDEAS for the New Millennium, funded in 1999 by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research as a five-year project.
Web Site: www.disabilityworld.org
FAWE is an international non-governmental organisation based in Nairobi, Kenya that brings together women education-ministers, women vice-chancellors and other senior women policy makers in education for the purpose of influencing policy changes in favour of the education of the African girl-child. FAWE has an extensive website which includes a large number of documents and FAWE newsletters. These cover a wide range of policy and practice issues around girls' education in Africa
Web site: www.fawe.org
More than 50 years after education was affirmed by governments as a fundamental human right, 125 million children are still out of school, and one in three adults is illiterate. Determined to end this injustice, aid agencies, non-government organisations, child rights activists, and teachers' and public sector unions operating in 180 countries have joined forces to launch the Global Campaign for Education (GCE).
The Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilises public pressure on governments and the International Community to fulfil their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people; in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.
Website: www.campaignforeducation.org
ICEVI is a global association of individuals and organisations that promotes equal access to appropriate education for all children and youth with visual impairment so that they may achieve their full potential.
Website: www.icevi.org
ID21 is a fast-track research reporting service backed by the UK Department for International Development. It aims to make policymakers and on-the-ground development managers aware of the latest and best in British development research findings.
Web Site: www.id21.org/education/
IDDC is a self-managing group currently consisting of 14 international non-government organisations supporting disability and development work in over 100 countries globally. IDDC's aim is to more effectively and efficiently promote the rights of disabled people through collaboration and sharing of information and expertise. To achieve this aim, IDDC believes development policy and practice should be inclusive.
Visit the IDDC web site.
Inclusion International is a network of families, self-advocates and committed friends. It works to better the lives of the 60 million persons living with intellectual disabilities, around the world. Inclusion International unites close to 200 local and national member associations in 115 countries. It is one of the largest international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the field of disability.
Web site: www.inclusion-international.org
Inclusive Education Western Cape is an alliance of organisations and individuals who are committed to promoting and supporting positive models of inclusive education in schools, preschools and other centres of learning in the Western Cape province, South Africa. It has been active since 1995.
Web site: www.included.org.za
Every five years, the United Kingdom hosts a major international congress on special needs education. ISEC 2000 was organised by the School of Education at The University of Manchester, in association with the Manchester Metropolitan University, the City of Manchester and neighbouring authorities in Greater Manchester. This congress was for presenters and participants from countries of the North and South, developed and developing, from all five continents of the globe. It was for consumers and family members, as well as teachers, teacher educators, researchers and other practitioners. The aim was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences from around the world about progress towards the goals of Inclusive Education for all. Over 1000 delegates from 100 countries attended ISEC 2000 - a large number of papers and other presentations from ISEC 2000 are availbable on the congress web site.
Visit the ISEC 2000 web site.
The UNESCO/Santiago Regional Office for Education, with financial support from the Government of Spain, has created a regional network for innovations in education in order to foster an 'innovation culture' among teachers and schools, to contribute to the transformation of teaching practices, and to facilitate thinking about and exchange of innovative experiences. The web site (currently available in Spanish only) contains sections for sharing experiences and where questions can be submitted - teachers may seek help in solving different kinds of problems and can submit their commentaries and suggestions. The web site also offers annotated bibliographies and documents that can be downloaded by users.
Web Site: http://innovemos.unesco.cl
NETREED is a network of individuals and institutions based in Norway, who do research and evaluation on education and development (with a focus on developing countries). The website contains summaries of research projects, evaluation reports, information on possibilities for funding for this type of research, information on relevant conferences and updated news. NETREED also organises a biannual conference where information and experience can be exchanged between researchers and evaluators, and where these can meet with representatives for "users" of the information, representatives from government authorities, educational institutions, non-governmental organisations etc.
Web Site: www.pfi.uio.no/forskning/netreed
Network Learning's mission is to make top quality field books, manuals and training courses easily available to groups who need them – free of cost; to encourage users to distribute their material, and contribute ideas and content for new material; to provide a place for users working in different countries in the South to network, discuss problems and share solutions; and to offer a directory of useful organisations and websites.
Web Site: www.networklearning.org
Oxfam’s website contains a large section on education issues, with a strong focus on Education for All, gender issues and financial issues in education. The site includes case studies and documents to download.
Web Site: www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/education/index.htm
Save the Children fights for children in the UK and around the world who suffer from poverty, disease, injustice and violence. See the education section of their website for details of SC UK's education programme.
Web site: www.savethechildren.org.uk
Rädda Barnen (Save the Children, Sweden) has almost 100.000 members. It is a non-governmental organisation, independent of political party or religion.
Rädda Barnen works for the rights of the child. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a fundamental tool in these efforts.
Web site: www.rb.se
Source is an international information support centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on health and disability.
Source has produced a ‘key list’ of inclusive education documents.
Web site: www.asksource.info
A collaborative action research network, 2000-2003
The Network involves teams of researchers from higher education institutions working in partnership with twenty-four schools, in three Local Education Authorities (LEAs) in the UK.
Schools in the Network are engaged in a programme of action research in order to develop effective ways of increasing the participation and learning of all pupils, particularly those experiencing barriers to their learning.
Web site: www.man.ac.uk/include
UNESCO's action in the field of inclusive education has been set explicitly within the 'inclusive education' framework adopted at the Salamanca Conference in 1994. This framework stems from the messages of the Jomtien World Declaration on Education for All (1990).
The UNESCO inclusive education website contains a range of documents relating to UNESCO's activities, policy and practice issues, case studies, etc.
Read the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action.
UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children's rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children's rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour towards children.
UNICEF is committed to ensuring special protection for the most disadvantaged children - victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of violence and exploitation and those with disabilities.
UNICEF aims, through its country programmes, to promote the equal rights of women and girls and to support their full participation in the political, social, and economic development of their communities.
Web Site: www.unicef.org
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