Upcoming events and resources to assist with inclusivity
Griffith University’s Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability beacon holds a suite of events for researchers, partners and community members.
Featured event
Living Books: Our disability stories
23 August 2023, 11.30am-12.40pm
Griffith Library, Gold Coast campus
This event is designed to build a deeper understanding through open and honest conversation that challenges stereotypes, prejudices and social constructs. Our ‘books’ are volunteers and are expressing their lived experience and our ‘readers’ are active participants in a dialogue without judgement.
Resources
Inclusivity in Play: inaugural innovation pitch
14 November 2022, Southport Sharks
Australians love the great outdoors but 4.4 million Aussies living with a disability don’t have easy or ready access to our beaches, parks or sports fields. Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability wants to change that. We're looking for solutions with dignity and practicability that will work. We're listening, collaborating and learning.
Media Diversity Australia: Disability Reporting Handbook
Communications media should reflect, connect with and include all people. This handbook, produced by Media Diversity Australia and sponsored by Inclusive Futures: Reimagining Disability, Griffith University, has been created to assist journalists and communications personnel to do just that, with a particular focus on various communities with disability.
Produced by a team of media professionals with lived experience of disability, in collaboration with peak Disabled People’s Organisations and diversity advocates. In designing and writing this handbook, we made sure we lived by the golden rule – nothing about us without us.
While we encourage you to read the entire handbook, it has been designed to enable time-poor, task-rich media professionals to skip to key areas to get the practical knowledge they need to better report on and with people with disability.
We realise that language, culture and understanding changes, and we aim to review and update this handbook in the future. We hope this guide leads to a more inclusive communications media, and with it, a more inclusive world – one which recognises and welcomes the true spectrum of human diversity.
Guidelines: Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Online
These guidelines have been written by a team of disability, accessibility and education design specialists, many of whom are Deaf and hard of hearing themselves, to address the challenges around the provision of inclusive online education exacerbated by COVID-19. If you are a disability practitioner, educator (e.g. teacher of the Deaf, lecturer) or student who is Deaf or hard of hearing, these guidelines have been produced for you. (ADCET, November 2020)
Guidelines: Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Online
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