IDEA

INVITATION!!!

Disability Studies in Inclusive Education Open Textbook Launch

Date: Monday, 18 March 2024
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Venue: MS Teams

Send your RSVP to Dr Tyabashe-Phume, [email protected] by 12 March 2024.

This textbook is conceptualized and developed by the Including Disability in Education in Africa (IDEA) research unit at the University of Cape Town in collaboration with the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at UCT, this innovative textbook aims to boost teachers' confidence in mainstream and special schools, enabling them to effectively engage with learners with disabilities in the classroom and address their diverse learning needs. It is intended to serve as a valuable resource for learners, teachers and teacher educators. Importantly, the textbook is free, openly licensed for reuse and translation, and links the reader to multiple other useful open resources.

This textbook is accessible through UCT Libraries: https://lnkd.in/dGspQrgw

Today we launched the LEGO Braille Bricks Project!! This project aims to facilitate, through play, braille learning with children with visual impairment. We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our partners The LEGO Foundation, SA and the schools involved in this project.

We are pleased to announce our partnership with LEGO foundation. Please join us online as we launch the LEGO BRAILLE BRICKS PROJECT.

Date: 05 March 2024
Time: 11:00 - 14:00
RSVP (for the link): [email protected]

Post Doctoral Fellowship Opportunity still open. Inviting all qualifying candidates📢📢📢 email inquiries/applications to [email protected]

Opportunity Alert📢:Postdoctoral Research in in the Including Disability in Education in Africa (IDEA) Research unit, Department of Health, and Rehabilitation Sciences

Passionate about ?Would you like to further your studies in the subject area? Apply now for a Postgraduate Diploma in Disability Studies in 2024
University of Cape Town UCT Faculty of Health Sciences

IDEA recently completed a study done in collaboration with colleagues at Antwerp Management School & Special Olympics on Employment of people with IDD. Check out the report here:http://www.idea.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/image_tool/images/578/publications/TAG%20Leadership_ULT_FINAL%20REPORT_June%202023.pdf

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Dr Richard Vergunst from IDEA attended the REMO COST Action Researcher Mental Health Training School in Paris from 22-25 May where researchers from all across Europe gathered to discuss psychosocial disabilities/mental health in academia and how we can most effectively address this growing concern. A great supporting network was achieved with potential future collaborations.

IDEA were part of a Lego Braille Bricks Training Workshop from 17-19 May with potential to become part of the pilot LEGO Braille Bricks Programme in South Africa. This programme aims to facilitate, through play, braille learning with children with visual impairment.

Yesterday IDEA participated in a workshop hosted by SASUF on ‘Student Co-creation in Open Education’. SASUF is the South Africa – Sweden University Forum and IDEA is involved as part of DOT4D and has been working with colleagues at the University of Western Cape, Gothenburg University and University of West in Sweden. Our collaborative (mostly research-focused work) takes place under the auspices of the ‘Open Education and Social Justice’ sub-project. In yesterdays’ workshop we profiled the ‘Science is Tough’ and ‘Disability Studies in Inclusive Education’ textbook initiatives as examples of innovative work happening at UCT

South Africa commemorates annually, on the 21st of March. Here are some insights from Blind SA on the Disability Rights Act and the of persons living with

Blind SA calls for Disability Rights Act Blind SA is calling on government to do more to ensure the rights of those with disabilities are realised. It's calling for the establishment of a Disability...