| Update April 2010 |
|
Welcome to Update April 2010 from norfolkparents.org.uk, bringing news for disabled parents and their supporters in Norfolk.
What's here:
Access All Schools One-handed parenting:a practical guide for new parents Disability Pride New childrens books including images of disabled adults and children. Parenting Toolkit: helping partnership boards meet the needs of people with learning difficulties.
Access All Schools is our project that asks Norfolk’s disabled parents how schools support them to help their children learn. The survey part of the project has been extended to 14th May. It is open to all disabled parents with children at Norfolk schools, as well as staff, volunteers and others interested in disability and learning. The survey can be completed online at www.norfolkparents.org.ukor download a survey form and send it by post, or call or text “survey” to 078 525 989 54 for a form, or ask for a call back to give your answers over the phone. A report will be produced to show all schools and parents how to give our children equal opportunities in the future.
One-handed parenting:a practical guide for new parents. Reference number T8 - Free to disabled parents, £6.00 to others. Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood international on http://www.dppi.org.uk Freephone: 0800 018 4730 Textphone:Freetext: 0800 018 9949
Disability Pride, an event which will explore the experiences and aspirations of disabled people and our struggle for equality and human rights will be held on Saturday 5th June, 2010 at the Forum in Norwich.
This event will be a fun relaxed night with profits benefiting Disability Pride. Tickets cost £8.00 / Concessions (non waged) £6.00 from the Norwich Arts Centre website or call 01603 660352 More information about this amazing evening or Disability Pride in general, from www.ncodp.org.uk/disabilitypride
NDPA's contribution to Disability Pridewill be in the Millenium Children's library, Norwich with a display of our favourite children's books with disabled characters, or written by disabled writers and illustrators. If you'd be interested in being part of a readers panel to help Norfolk Libaries keep an up to date list of children's books with a disability interest, please contact NDPA on 078 525 989 54 .
Clean it! tells about a boy and his sister helping around the home, and shows dad using an inhaler. In Grow it! we're down on the allotment alongside a wheelchair using gardener and in Cook it! a little girl helps to prepare food for dinner, passing a guide-dog user in the street.
Parenting Toolkit: helping partnership boards meet the needs of people with learning difficulties.
We hope you find Update interesting and useful.·· · If you have an·event or resource that would interest·disabled parents or those who work with them, tell us·and we'll put it in the next Update. Email: info@norfolkparents.org.uk. · Update can be·sent to you by email by subscription. · · If you need Update another format please email info@norfolkparents.org.uk or phone 078 525 989 548. · If you don't need Update in the future, please email info@norfolkparents.org.uk with "unsubscribe Update" in the subject line.
|
This new guide from DPPI looks at baby care for one-handed parents. It includes lifting and carrying, nappy changing, breastfeeding and feeding, going out and about, bathing and bedtime.The section on nappy changing reminds parents to encourage baby's increasing interactive skills. Babies learn very quickly to roll and move their legs when the parent signals it's time, which helps make it easier, and the experience is enjoyable too.The guide is aimed at parents who need to carry out tasks with one hand, and may also be useful for health professionals supporting one-handed parents. 
Disability Pride says having an impairment or long term health condition is part of being human and nothing to be ashamed of. By rejecting negative stereotypes and embracing our identity, we are stronger, we are proud! Disability Pride is for anyone and everyone who considers themselves to be a disabled person; be it through mental health, physical and sensory impairments, learning disability or any other kind of long term condition. 
New childrens books including images of disabled adults and children. 
People with learning difficulties can influence what services are available through Norfolk's Learning Difficulty Partnership Boards. Partnership Boards have to make sure all of their services, including mainstream services are supporting parents with learning difficulties properly. This toolkit has been written by parents with learning difficulties in London, based on their own experiences. It aims to help members of local Partnership Boards find out what they should be doing to ensure parents with learning disabilities in their area get the help they need - and to which they are entitled. From c/o Diane Simcoe, The Elfrida Society, 34 Islington Park Street, London N1 1 PX. Phone: 0207 359 7443, Email: elfrida@elfrida.com