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Disabled facilities in school

LovingLisa

My daughter is autistic and attends mainstream school and is in their 'inclusion' program. She can't tolerate the noise of hand dryers in toilets and is terrified of the sight of them. In september when she moves into her new class there is a disabled toilet next door. Normally, she would use a disabled toilet as she is the only person in there and knows therefore the hand dryer wont turn on. I never realised the school had a disabled toilet but now I know and my daughter knows, she would like to start using it. She is a radar key holder although not a blue badge holder.

I mentioned this to her teacher for september in the last week of term and she got really funny with me and said she couldn't understand why my daughter was a radar key holder anyway. She said she would put it on her list of things to think about for September.

It's made me quite upset. I seem to have so many battles to fight at the moment that I don't need to have to fight about this to. Surely my daughter has a right to use the disabled facilities at school?

Could someone give me advice about this, I would be really grateful.

Thank you, Lisa

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  • This is classic misunderstanding of making provision for the disabled. Due to a lot of misinformation about the social model of disability, all they have to do is provide wheelchair access and disabled toilets, and the rest is down to coloured handouts for people with dyslexia. There.... Done....

    I'm afraid all the legislation and all the initiatives and promises still amount to this noddy idea of what disability is about. I cannot see it getting better while everyone from Government downwards is still only concerned with "window dressing".  Look - we're disability aware...we've got a ramp, and a disabled toilet, and coloured paper for handouts.

    The concept that a disabled toilet might also benefit someone with sensory issues doesn't enter their heads. But I bet a few spare radar keys will be available to able staff who don't like using the main staff toilets!

    You need to ask to see their disability policy.  It probably doesn't meet the expected standards. Even remotely....

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  • This is classic misunderstanding of making provision for the disabled. Due to a lot of misinformation about the social model of disability, all they have to do is provide wheelchair access and disabled toilets, and the rest is down to coloured handouts for people with dyslexia. There.... Done....

    I'm afraid all the legislation and all the initiatives and promises still amount to this noddy idea of what disability is about. I cannot see it getting better while everyone from Government downwards is still only concerned with "window dressing".  Look - we're disability aware...we've got a ramp, and a disabled toilet, and coloured paper for handouts.

    The concept that a disabled toilet might also benefit someone with sensory issues doesn't enter their heads. But I bet a few spare radar keys will be available to able staff who don't like using the main staff toilets!

    You need to ask to see their disability policy.  It probably doesn't meet the expected standards. Even remotely....

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