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Exciting News - Sharon won the Human Rghts Award for Individuals 2008 for her contribution to Community. Here she is with Julian Morrow of 'Chaser's' fame and Graham Innis from HREOC.
Check out more details and listen to the speeches here
Sharon is launching her new book - Discovering Dyslexia and Reading Perceptual Issues onJuly 22nd, 2009. More details to follow...
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The Discovering DisAbility and Diversity program is an Inclusive Education experience, developed and designed by Sharon Boyce, that promotes the active discovery of disability and diversity through various hands-on activities. It is designed to enable all children and adults across Toowoomba, Darling Downs, the Lockyer Valley and Brisbane and surrounding areas to experience disability and diversity awareness in their own school or work environment. We have been to over six hundred schools and childcare centres and spoken to over twelve thousand students, adults and children. We have been privileged to be a part of some life changing experiences.
The program is totally mobile thanks to our generous sponsors, who supply our van and many operational costs. We bring the van and activities to you. It is designed to cover all age groups. We work across all school year levels 1-12. The program also has specially developed early childhood programs to cater for preschools and childcare. It is based around the idea of experiential learning and storytelling. We set up lots of different experiences. You will feel what it is like to be blind, hearing impaired, have ASD, an Intellectual Impairment or a physical disability. Sharon will share her life story and then an interactive question and answer session will follow. It is interactive, fun and will keep all students engaged with the learning experience.
Discovering DisAbility & Diversity also runs Teacher Professional Development sessions with the support of Education Queensland's Staff College of Inclusive Education. We have a variety of different sessions to choose from and a number of new teacher professional development sessions available, as well, especially exploring many of the hidden disabilities and pratical teaching solutions for inclusion.
We also run sessions for Universities and Tafe Colleges for Education, Teacher Aide sessions, Engineering, Sciences and Nursing students. We are also running a number of workshops for the Caring Industry that are practical, innovative and 'hands on'. They are specifically designed to cater for each organisations unique needs.
The program was designed to raise awareness through discovery. It aims to break down barriers that may exist due to lack of knowledge and it promotes active exploration of attitudes and feelings about the importance of inclusion in education and all society. It encourages us all to think about disability and diversity differently. Diversity is about adding value rather than deficiency. Another important aspect of inclusion is to confront educational disadvantage and intercultural education. We have also added a number of new follow up or stand alone programs, one such one is on cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution.
An inclusive society is one which accepts difference and challenges preconceived ideas.
Site developed, written, produced, designed, owned and updated by Sharon Boyce & some contributions by Michael Furtado.
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