Starting With Julius

Working to promote equal representation of people with disability in advertising, media and beyond. #adinclusion #diversity #startingwithjulius

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Using the R-Word is never a victimless crime

#coordown #WDSD2026 #JustEvolve

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*New Blog Post*

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“The word “special” is used to sugar-coat segregation and exclusion – and its continued use in our language, education systems, media etc serves to maintain those antiquated “special” concepts that line the slippery path to a life of exclusion.”

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Ableism has no place in children’s books.

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“A child with “special needs” catches the “special bus” to receive “special assistance” in a “special school” from “special ed teachers” to prepare for a “special” future in a “special home” and working in a “special workshop”.

Is that “special”?

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The return to the devaluation of minorities and the politics of ‘lifters and leaners’?

https://t.co/yHcTlBo6y2

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**NEW POST**

The increasingly open devaluation of people with disability and neurodivergence ... poses serious risks to the rights of people with disability worldwide."

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‘Special education’ is not special … and often not even education

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On World Down Syndrome Day

See also https://t.co/BvXd82PcnG

https://t.co/S9ANewGvLe

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“Ableism, or implicit prejudice against people with disability, and paternalism operate to side-line disabled people from decision-making affecting them.”

Coordown’s WDSD25 campaign promotes the disability rights principle, ‘Nothing about us without us’.

https://t.co/BvXd82PcnG

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“The “T4 program” – as it came to be known – was effectively a “rehearsal” on disabled people for the broader Holocaust that was to come.”

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“To be really “included” in a class each participant must be doing the SAME core tasks as the other participants.  …peer connection from that common and shared classroom experience is more likely to continue outside the class and into the community.”

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“the academic, social and independence benefits of inclusive education for a student with disability are likely to be maximised by an educational assistant doing, increasingly over time, as little as is necessary, as unobtrusively as possible.”

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“Academic and social benefits of inclusive education are interconnected – all students, including students with disability, are likely to achieve more academically if they are socially part of their classroom.”

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“The research demonstrates that an inclusive class culture is conducive to maximising academic, independence and social outcomes for students with and without disability.”

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“Inclusive education is a paradigm shift – a correction of a social wrong – it is not a pendulum – it is a transformation.”

From 2016, but still relevant

https://t.co/Sn1PeGcr2K