The lived experience of disability needs a flag
The Unguarded Quarter
by Michael Uniacke
5y ago
An executive of a disability organisation who doesn’t think much of the value of “lived experience” of people with disabilities is unaware of the one thing everyone with a disability knows about. It’s something MICHAEL UNIACKE would like to see in a flag. THE IDEA OF “LIVED experience” of disability makes Phil Hayes-Brown nervous. Writing in the Melbourne ‘Age’ some weeks ago, he objected to disability advocates who called for the new CEO of the National Disability Insurance Agency to be someone with “lived experience” of disability. Hayes-Brown, the chief executive of a Melbourne disability s ..read more
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Can you ask that? Deafinitely.
The Unguarded Quarter
by Michael Uniacke
5y ago
There was nothing wrong with the ABC’s ‘You Can’t Ask That’ episode on deaf people. According to MICHAEL UNIACKE, the episode was mostly about satisfying the curiosity of hearing people. PERHAPS THE MOST MEMORABLE moment in the deaf episode of the ABC television series “You Can’t Ask That” came from Dion Galea. In describing deaf people for the benefit of hearing people, they signed: “We won’t bite. We don’t have fangs”. That moment of quirky humour captured much of why this episode worked well. The secret to understanding ‘You Can’t Ask That’ lies in its title. It challenges viewers to do ju ..read more
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The international passport to signing pleasure
The Unguarded Quarter
by Michael Uniacke
5y ago
 Thanks to spiders, stewed prunes and good teaching, MICHAEL UNIACKE enjoyed an excellent introduction to International Sign THE ART OF ABSORBING any sign language is not to try too hard. It’s best to let it wash over you, to allow yourself to see the flow, the full picture of face and movement. Being introduced to International Sign was not trying to learn a new sign language, because I wasn’t sure if International Sign was in fact a language. From the little I knew, it seemed like a hybrid, a blending of signs with some kind of system. Did that make it a language? When I arrived at the Trade ..read more
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