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Enabling Education Network
The Enabling Education Network (EENET) is an information-sharing network focused on inclusive education. The network includes teachers, parents, students, non-governmental organizations, policy-makers, and more. It promotes and shares information and documents, most of it originated in developing countries. They encourage critical thinking, innovation, and conversations within and between countries on inclusion, equity, and rights in… Continue reading Enabling Education Network
Parent Empowerment
Introduction Parent participation in the education of children with disabilities is a core concept of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the U.S. civil rights law that requires schools to meet the educational needs of children with disabilities. IDEA recognizes that family involvement has a profound influence on how children do in school and… Continue reading Parent Empowerment
Low Cost Physical Access Solutions for Schools
Introduction Successfully educating children who are disabled with their nondisabled classmates for full participation in society requires accessible schools. Providing an environment that is accessible to all children reflects the belief that all students are valued and welcome. Accessibility should not be viewed as a constraint or simply a set of rules that must be… Continue reading Low Cost Physical Access Solutions for Schools
Supporting Inclusive and Accessible Political Processes
ElectionAccess.org is an online resource center that offers information supporting and encouraging political participation by people with disabilities. Founded in 1998 and renovated in 2015, it is one of the world’s first and only free resources dedicated to disability rights and political participation. There are many different types of materials available on ElectionAccess.org, including: Examples of… Continue reading Supporting Inclusive and Accessible Political Processes
Handbooks for Parliamentarians on Human Rights Treaties
Often, protecting the human rights of people with disabilities may require using multiple human rights treaties and addressing many different areas within human rights. For example, protecting the human rights of refugees with disabilities may require using both the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and also treaties meant to protect refugees… Continue reading Handbooks for Parliamentarians on Human Rights Treaties
Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities
Children with disabilities are still persistently excluded from opportunities to obtain an education in many countries. Even in countries that have made great strides in enrolling most of their children in primary school and closing the gender gap, children with disabilities are often left behind. Sometimes they are literally the last to be enrolled: in… Continue reading Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities
Best Practices: Making Education Transitions Inclusive
The report Education Transition for Children with Disabilities in Armenia by an Armenian non-governmental organization (Bridge of Hope) examines the importance of supporting children, particularly children with disabilities, during education transition. Children experience big transitions when they move from home or pre-school to primary school; primary school to secondary school; or secondary school to tertiary education (e.g.… Continue reading Best Practices: Making Education Transitions Inclusive
Economic Support in the U.S.
Federal economic support and benefit laws based on disability vary from monetary social security disability income and Medicare healthcare benefits (both of which require individuals to initially qualify by paying into the system for many years through employment wage deductions), to supplemental security income and Medicaid healthcare benefits that are primarily applied for on the… Continue reading Economic Support in the U.S.
U.S. Housing Laws
There are four key disability nondiscrimination laws that apply to the subject of accessible housing. Two of these laws do not apply only to housing and are covered separately: Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 applies to housing that is built with federal financial assistance or federal funds The Americans with Disabilities Act of… Continue reading U.S. Housing Laws