The Pretoria High Court last week handed down an order (by consent), ordering the department of Basic Education (DBE) to make provision for all pupils with special needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The court order comes after the Centre for Child Law (CCL), represented by Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), took the minister of basic […]
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Blind and visually impaired learners face a constant battle to get access to equal and quality education – especially during the pandemic. On 5 August, Blind SA held an urgent discussion with civil society groups and interested parties on the education crisis for blind and visually impaired learners during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nearly 50 people
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Creating meaningful impact and changing lives is what Corporate Training and Development company Grow Right Edge Solutions is all about. With over 10 years hands on experience in the Training and Development Industry, Grow Right Edge Solutions was created with a passion to transform and drive the Economy of tomorrow. Everything they do is based
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Duncan Yates is the Mental Health and Neurodiversity Co-ordinator at the Wits Disability Rights Unit (DRU) where he has been working in the field of disability support over the past 10 years. He has a Masters in Psychology from the University of Johannesburg and is also a Practicing Counselling Psychologist. As a person with a
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The unfortunate fact is that the deaf are often marginalised. iCan Disability Academy was launched to better the lives of its students. This small training café based in Durban North is manned solely by the deaf with students learning about the hospitality trade in a one-year course. Learning hospitality and life skills to enable a
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For too long, we have been teaching and assessing with the average student in mind, without considering students with disabilities and students from less-resourced environments. As higher education practitioners, we find ourselves catapulted into this Covid-19 online space with our diverse range of students with varying abilities. Also, part of this diversity, and lying on
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According to eDeaf, the leading provider of (Deaf) Skills Development training in South Africa, the unfortunate stereotype still exists that deaf people are less capable than hearing employees in the work environment. The truth is, that deaf candidates can do anything, except here. In their continual efforts to break this stereotype and empower Deaf candidates,
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Cape Town – The Cape Town Society for the Blind has launched an initiative to introduce a new computerised system specifically for the blind. The organisation is working to promote and market the JAWS (Job Access With Speech) computerised system. Converting text to speech The JAWS computer system converts text to speech among other functions
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The guiding principle of The Living Link is that people with intellectual disabilities can be equipped with new skills and can then successfully find employment in the open labour market. The course material was written for and in collaboration with people with intellectual disabilities to ensure that the material was understandable and could be readily
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Although South Africa has some of the best legislation to support the integration of people with disabilities (PWDs) into the workplace, it does not necessarily create a situation that gets them into the workplace and their numbers in the workplace are not growing significantly. One of the challenges to including PWDs is a lack of
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