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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 that 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.

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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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Skype meeting to discuss modules and interactive content

By DisAbuse on Fri, 06/29/2018 - 12:48

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Interactive material development - workshop at IADT

By DisAbuse on Wed, 05/16/2018 - 14:06

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User focus group at DCU

By DisAbuse on Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:18

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DisAbuse Project update meeting - Lisbon

By DisAbuse on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 00:36

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International DisAbuse seminar in Lisbon

By DisAbuse on Wed, 03/21/2018 - 00:25

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RECENT BLOG POSTS

Interactive material development - workshop at IADT

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.

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.

The partners held another Skype meeting on June 28th 2018. The purpose of this Skype meeting was to discuss feedback from the partners re the initial draft of the DisAbuse Trainers’ Manual and the PowerPoints for each Modular Session. The team at IADT are already in the process of assessing some of the items (especially homework) for transferral into a Multimedia format. Alex, Mohammed and Ryan at IADT are building the overall web framework for the interactive components and all partners can now view the first interactive components for review.

DISABUSE Project launched

The DISABUSE research project was launched by Minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor in the Helix on December 4th, with all members of the Erasmus + project team present.

The partners of the DisAbuse Project gathered for the 2nd Partner Meeting on the 8th of March and the 2nd International DisAbuse Seminar on the 9th of March in ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon.

Kick off skype meeting

The partners held their first kick off Skype meeting on October 17^th and discussed the project plan and possible logos for the project.

Graduation

The Anti Bullying Research and Resource Centre at DCU hosted its annual Stop Bullying Course Certificate of Achievements.

Awards for 15 couple learners (person with ID with a support person) on Monday 4th Dec in celebration to coincide with the International Day of People with Disabilities.

The 2nd DisAbuse Partner Meeting took place March 8th in ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon.

The partners of the DisAbuse Project gathered to update on progress and work to date completed on the project. Work on the translation of the website was reviewed.The repository where partners can upload resources, publications, best practice, research and legislation was demonstrated to the partners. Progress on multimedia course development was demonstrated.Updates and progress on the best practice report and evaluation tools were also discussed.

Lisbon transnational meeting

Transnational meeting of the European project DisAbuse on tackling bullying amongst persons with special educational needs and intellectual disability takes place at the University of Lisbon March 8th 2018.