Inclusion Europe Radio

[1:35:8] Who’s Elisabeth Lamers and how she started her work

[4:17:2] What comes after a child with disabilities finishes school?

[6:24:7] When Elisabeth joined UNAPEI

[10:09:0] How UNAPI works

[12:49:9] Self-advocacy in UNAPEI

[18:02:2] The survey

[31:41:3] UNAPEI’s purposes

[40:09:7] The achievements of UNAPEI

[1:30:0] The beginning of the story. A journey of commitment and passion

[8:35:0] Jyrki joins Inclusion Finland

[9:43:0] When Jyrki realises that getting services for children with disabilities can be hard

[13:01:00] Start of advocacy

[15:46:0] The efforts of Jyrki arrives to the politicians

[19:52:0] The work that’s left to do for people with disabilities

[27:34:0] The application of the UNCRPD

[49:31:0] Parents of children with disabilities

[54:07:0] The importance of Inclusion Europe and the other organisations

Conversation with former President of Inclusion Europe, Maureen Piggot.

Time stamps:

[00:00:42] Maureen’s youth and her first approach to disabilities 

[00:07:51] Maureen’s work with Mencap 

[00:13:13] Disability awareness in 1988 and today 

[00:16:23] The parents movement and the Disability Discrimination Act 

[00:36:41] The importance of self-advocacy and deinstitutionalisation 

[00:55:03] Maureen’s experience in Inclusion International 

One of the many challenges that people with intellectual disabilities face is technology and more specifically surfing the web. This is why we invited, Inge Rutsaert from AnySurfer to talk about how to facilitate web navigation for people with intellectual disability.

Camilla Lindholm and Ulla Vanhatalo are professors and researchers at the University of Tampere and the University of Helsinki, respectively, and they wrote a book about easy languages in Europe.

Neil Crowther is a freelance consultant from the United Kingdom. He previously worked for the Disability Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the UK.

[02:22] What is social care future?

[07:09] Pillars of social care

[11:37] NGOs have to help people understand, picture, and visualise the world we are advocating for

[16:43] Hopeful communication of social care future

[20:05] Using words that everybody understands

[22:37] Showing the results and [24:24] raising expectations

[26:09] How was the communication research conducted?

[38:13] How is social care relevant for people in need amidst the work on communication?

[40:38] We need the existing resources to be used much more effectively

[45:01] Disability rights when ageing

[55:58] Social care as relationship-centred support

[01:00:23] The visual story

Milan Šveřepa, director of Inclusion Europe interviewed Simo Vehmas and Reetta Mietola, authors of the book Narrowed Lives.

Harry Roche from Inclusion International interviews Soufiane El Amrani about the impact of Russian war on Ukraine and how is Inclusion Europe helping its members.

Julie Beadle-Brown and Jan Šiška talk about their book, The Development, Conceptualisation and Implementation of Quality in Disability Support Services.

On the 8 March, Milan Šveřepa spoke with Adam Zawisny from our member in Poland PSONI. They talked about Ukrainian refugees with disabilities, and how organisations in Poland are helping. 

Soufiane El Amrani interviewed László Bercse, vice-president of Inclusion Europe, about what kind of Europe we want and how can we achieve it

Jan Savage, director of ENABLE Scotland talks about their work and impact on self-advocacy groups

Sebastian Foreman talks about the Campaign4Change and he reads a poem he wrote about living in isolation during the pandemic

This year, because of the pandemic situation, the Hear our Voices Conference was different.

Self-advocates from all over Europe got together in their own countries and organised several events to talk about how was it for them to go through the COVID-19 situation.

We interviewed Valerie Van Hees for Inclusion Europe Radio. Valerie is the coordinator for the Support Centre of Inclusive Higher Education in Flanders, Belgium. The support centre for higher education was founded in 2009 when Belgium ratified the UN convention for persons with disabilities.

Houston Vandergriff was born with Down Syndrome. While many doctors told his parents that he wouldn’t be able to achieve much in life, Houston, at age 23, has managed to chase his passion for photography, winn awards for his work, and inspire countless people along the way. Houston and his mother Katie joined us on Inclusion Europe Radio to talk about Houston’s journey.

Melanie Wimmer talks about her use of social media in her work as a self-advocate, her job at Atempo and difficulties faced in education and later in employment.

Myrto and Soufiane spoke about daily life
and employment for people with disabilities.

Myrto and Soufiane also talked about COVID-19
and the way COVID-19 has changed the employment of
people with intellectual disabilities.

Soufiane spoke about how important it is
for people with intellectual disabilities to have a job
and make their own money.