disabled are socially excluded says Scope

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and I thought it was just us living like hermits on a desert island, how about others?
BBC online

have a thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1032366-Disabled-people-excluded-socially

In other news, sky blue and grass green?

They are socially excluded, but not by the children until their parents teach them to!

I give up now with the mardy parents round here. There are about three that have managed to get over J's previous reputation and speak to or look at me or him...I just say roll on high school where school gate culture ends.

Starlight - not true in J's case, honestly. They make a point of encouraging independence and social skills is high on his (personal) curriculum agenda.

To a certain extent I choose to exclude DS because SN settings and activities just work much better. I'd hate to see all SN-orientated schemes turned into Inclusion. But we are part of the RL SN/ASD community round here and virtually.

Starlight, you can't generalise from what you fear may be the experience of your own child. It's just not true in the case of all children with autism.

There's a very thoughtful piece in the Guardian today reflecting on this topic here about the lag between what people say they think about disability and what they really think and then what they actually do.

I hope lots of people find the idea that 90 per cent of people have never had a disabled people in their house for a social occasion (eg a cup of tea) shocking, cos it bloody well ought to be. And I think it's a good headline way of highlighting the social isolation of people with disabilities and their families.