Resources & Toolkits

Sensory DVD Evaluation Form.

Seeing and Hearing the difference: development of a DVD to promote understanding of living with sensory impairment in pre-registration healthcare professionals

Resources & Toolkits

 

Partners in Practice: Final report 'Different Differences: Disability equality teaching in healthcare education, a document for action

Partners in Practice has created a curriculum framework that embeds disability equality in healthcare education, thereby enabling future generations of doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists radiographers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other health and social care professionals to eliminate disability discrimination from clinical practice. This curriculum framework is called 'Different Differences: disability equality for healthcare education'. Disabled people have directly influenced the education of future healthcare professionals by determining the curriculum's learning outcomes, setting standards, delivering the curriculum and assessing practice. The curriculum is be underpinned by the social model of disability and is aligned to the standards being set by the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People.

Sharing Real Lives

Sharing Real Lives is a DVD created by parent carers in association with the University of Huddersfield and CETL for Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings. It consists of four 15 minute stories. There is also an accompanying CD-ROM with key themes, areas for discussion, notes for tutors and suggested activities about each scenario i.e. lots of ideas as to how to embed the scenarios in teaching. According to the developers, “The scenarios provide opportunities to think critically about service provision both at an organisational and individual practitioner level and make an excellent tool for inter-professional learning.”

"I'm fine! Mark's Story!"

This is a book by Les and Caroline Simpson who have been working with a ghost writer to write up their experience of bringing up Mark who is a child with Down’s and autism and also a twin. Caroline is one of the carers who is involved in working with the School of Health at the University of Teesside. The book has lots of photos, is very readable and produced by Caroline Brannigan (the ghost writer) and printed by MPG Books Group.