Disability History Month 2012
We're celebrating Disability History Month 2012 between 22 November - 22 December!
Throughout this month we're putting on a variety of events to help celebrate how disability rights have improved through time, and to raise awareness about how much further there is to go before disabled people are fully liberated in society.
We'll also be celebrating an influential disabled person each week on this website so keep your eyes peeled.
Events for Disability History Month 2012 include:
Tutu's Cinema Club presents 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
26 November, time 7-9.30pm
Tutu's, 4th Floor, Macadam Building, Strand Campus
Deaf Awareness and a British Sign Language taster
28 November, 4-5pm
Activity Room 1, Boland House, Guy's Campus
Have the Paralympics Improved Disability Rights?
3 December, 6-7.30pm
Raked Lecture Theatre, S-1.04, Strand Campus
'Learning Disabilities in Adolescents'
5 December, 2-4pm
Micheal Rutter Centre, Seminar Room 1, Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill
Disabled Students Lunch and Discussion
13 December, 12-2pm
Activity 4, Boland House, Guy's campus
Follow @KCLSU to see tweets about historical moments in disability history.
Influential Disabled People
Week Three - The Direct Action Network
Also know as DAN, this is a group of disabled people who demonstrate peacefully to show the barriers they face in everyday life. Their direct action has highlighted inequality and forced the hands of decision makers to make change and for the Government to introduce new laws to help stop discrimination against disabled people.
Find out about events throughout history that impacted on the liberation of disabled people...
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