Laser Lessons - Lesson

Understand how views and attitudes impact on the lives of individuals with learning disabilities and their family carers

'DfE Anti Bullying: What Happened To You?', produced by Take One Productions, is a short video where people with various disabilities and their relatives and carers talk about their experiences of bullying and how this has impacted upon them. Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting? What can you learn from watching the video?

Table of Contents

Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

Factsheet no 4: Attitudes towards people with learning disabilities, from Dumfries and Galloway Council
‘Death by indifference’, a Mencap campaign.
‘Current attitudes towards disabled people’ from the charity Scope.
'Resources for employers’ from Mencap.

Presentation
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

Click on the icon on the left to access the website of MENCAP
Click on the icon to the left to access the website of People First, an advocacy group for people with learning disabilities:
'Death by indifference: 74 deaths and counting: A progress report 5 years on' is Mencap's follow on report from the 'Death by Indifference' report from the Reading section of this lesson.
This is one section of the National Statistics ‘Adults with Learning Difficulties in England, 2003-2004’ called ‘What did we find out?’.
‘Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities: Experimental Statistics: 2014 to 2015’ gives data on key health issues. Click on the link to open and read some of the findings.

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