A contribution as key note speaker at the UNICEF/Bhutan Government Regional Conference on including children with disabilities in education, December 2013.
For the PDF version of Richard’s presentation, click below:
Preparing teachers to include children with disabilities Internationally what works well
After the visit, Richard was asked by the United Nations to write an article summing up the speech he had given in Bhutan. It can be found below:
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Lead consultant on the UNICEF/AusAID Rights, Education and Protection (REAP) Project-Educating Teachers for Children with Disabilities: Mapping, Scoping and Best Practice Exercise in the context of developing inclusive education (2012-2013).
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The theme for this year is Celebrating our Struggle for Independent Living: No Return to Institutions or Isolation.
Read more at: http://ukdisabilityhistorymonth.com/.
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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 downloaded from this website
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After Richard’s trip to Bhutan in December 2013, the United Nations asked him to write a short article summarising the speech that he gave there.
To read it, see below:
Preparing teachers to include children with disabilities
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In 2013, UNICEF produced ‘The State of the World’s Children’ report which focussed on children with disabilities. As part of that project, Richard was asked to write an essay for UNICEF. It can be read below:
http://www.unicef.org/sowc2013/focus_inclusive_play_spaces.html
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2nd to 4th July 2013 – Southern Africa Ministerial Conference on Inclusive Education
Richard was a keynote presenter at the joint SAALED Ministerial and Teacher Development Conference and facilitator at the Ministerial Conference developing a plan for implementing Inclusive Education across the SADC area. He also contributed to the OSISA Regional Education Ministers Seminar.
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