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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

First module today at Fondazione Mondo Digitale

By DisAbuse on Fri, 02/15/2019 - 18:26

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Lego Serious Play Session in DCU

By DisAbuse on Mon, 12/17/2018 - 16:07

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IADT and DCU partners met at IADT to discuss the pilot testing and evaluation of the Disabuse materials.

By DisAbuse on Fri, 11/09/2018 - 15:49

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Murcia Partners' meeting

By DisAbuse on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 12:07

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Lego Methodology Workshop

By DisAbuse on Sat, 10/20/2018 - 11:34

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RECENT BLOG POSTS

Workshop on bullying and cyberbullying: the vulnerability of students with SEN/D.

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.

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.

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.

DisAbuse Project presentation at DCU

Fiona Weldon and Lian McGuire of the National Anti-Bullying Research Centre and UNESCO Chair on Tackling Bullying and Cyberspace, presented on Disablist Bullying and the DisAbuse Project to a joint Norwegian / Irish 2 Day Seminar.

The Seminar was part of the joint masters module group specialising in the prevention and intervention of bullying in learning environments between the University of Stavanger Norway and Dublin City University, Ireland.

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.

The first meeting of the DisAbuse project took place today at Fondazione Mondo Digitale (MondoDigitale [site]). 13 young people with special educational needs and 12 teachers, trainers, and psychologists, talked about their bullying experiences today. They were able to learn from each other to recognize the phenomenon and to understand how they can cope and tackle bullying.

The third DISABUSE Multiplier Event and Partner Lego Methodology Workshop and Partner Meeting will be held at Universidad de Murcia, Spain.

15 - 16 October 2018.

This conference will be held on the subject of bullying and cyberbullying of people with SEN/D at the University of Murcia together with a meeting of the DisAbuse EU project partners. Professor Pilar Arnaiz, who is an expert in the topic of people with SEN(D) and who has directed a thesis on cyberbullying, will participate in this conference. She will present her perspective on this problem.