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A European ERASMUS+ project to tackle Disablist Bullying

Disablist bullying is when people are bullied because they have a disability.

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What is disablist bullying?

Disablist bullying may be carried out by both those with and without a disability and includes similar types of bullying such as physical, verbal, gesture, exclusion and extortion bullying.

Did you know?

The National Disability Authority (NDA) found that individuals with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), are more likely to be bullied than individuals without SEND.

Exclusion vs Inclusion

People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities are often excluded in and outside social situations because people don’t understand a person’s disability.

Seek Support

Disablist bullying is harmful as it is based on prejudice and targets may not know how to seek support or express what they are experiencing.

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RECENT NEWS & EVENTS

Training implementation in Ireland, by the National Anti-Bullying Centre (ABC).

By DisAbuse on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 12:32

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Training implementation in Italy, by Fondazione Mondo Digitale.

By DisAbuse on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 12:26

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Training implementation in Portugal, by the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.

By DisAbuse on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 12:23

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Training implementation in Spain, by the University of Murcia (UM).

By DisAbuse on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 12:19

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How did the DisAbuse pilot course work?

By DisAbuse on Fri, 07/12/2019 - 12:17

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RECENT BLOG POSTS

Implementation of the training in Italy by Fondazione Mondo Digitale

The training programme conducted by Fondazione Mondo Digitale in Rome, Italy, involved 27 teachers, trainers, psychologists, psychotherapists and young people in a pilot training programme, characterized by moments of discussion and reflection on specific bullying related issues. Trainers on the project and the facilitators of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale used, among others, the innovative LEGO® Serious Play® and MTa methods to facilitate participants’ points of view, emotions and personal experiences while providing tools to stand against bullying.

The Stop DisAbuse training course on combatting Disablist Bullying aimed at educating and empowering SEN/D users and those who work alongside them, is a modular course.

Final details for the sessions, the numbers, locations/dates all together for the pilot training phase were discussed. The next step is to start to prepare materials to advertise to target users.

The IADT team hosted a workshop today of the partners from ABC,DCU on the multimedia development of the materials for the DisAbuse training course. Six full modules were discussed and reviewed. Recommendations were made around how to make the materials interactive and engaging.

DCU Launch schedule

Official Launch of the European project DisAbuse on tackling bullying amongst persons with special educational needs and intellectual disability takes place at the Helix, Dublin City University on Dec 4^th.

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The final sessions of the Irish Piloting/Evaluation of the DisAbuse Modules was completed. We wish to thank everyone for their efforts to attend, their enthusiastic participation and the tremendous input received.

Next October 15, together with the meeting of the DisAbuse project that will take place at the University of Murcia, a conference will be held on the subject of bullying and cyberbullying that people with SEN/D have. Professor Pilar Arnaiz, who is an expert in the topic of people with SEN and who has directed a thesis on cyberbullying, will participate in this conference. She will give us her perspective on this problem.

User Focus Groups

IADT have been holding focus groups with Sen(D) users in small groups to get their views about disablist bullying. We have been gathering feedback on an early stage prototype instructional multimedia application that we are developing at IADT to teach about staying safe from bullying, both face to face, and in an online environment.The feedback so far from the users themselves has been very positive.

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The International Conference and DisAbuse Workshops aims to present the project outcomes at the end of the training programme implemented in Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Lego Serious Play Session in DCU

In advance of the piloting of the DisAbuse project in 2019 Fiona Weldon & Lian McGuire of DisAbuse, in incorporation with the DCU Lego Education Innovation Studio, facilitated an evaluated Lego Serious Play session on Anger & Bullying with the members of the Bullying Advocacy Group. Participants discussed Bullying and Healthy / Unhealthy Anger and examined how Lego Serious Play can facilitate insight into the effects and outcomes of both kinds of Anger on Bullying.