CHILD- AND YOUTH-LED PARTICIPATORY ASSESSMENT ON GBV AND DISABILITY
Getting to know each other at the information session.
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This picture shows an interaction session of children and young disabled persons with their caregivers, all are in joyous mood, sitting together in order to facilitate better communication.
This tool provides guidance for staff and partners planning the information session with potential participants. The information session provides an opportunity for children and youth with disabilities and their caregivers to learn more about the assessment, thereby contributing to the informed consent process, and for staff that will be facilitating the assessment to identify the different communication preferences of individuals. It can also play a critical role in supporting children and youth with and without disabilities to get to know each other, making them more comfortable in the following activities.
Practicing with tools from the Communication Toolbox.
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This picture shows one training session of disabled children where the teacher is giving instruction to a girl student for using a camera. One blind boy is sitting behind the girl while another boy is sitting behind the teacher.
During this time, walk around to individuals who you may need to learn more about to facilitate their participation in the activities. These may include:
Divide the group in two and ask members to regroup based on differences or similarities of the following characteristics:
FACILLITATOR'S NOTE: The same people will regroup under the different characteristics. Signs and symbols can also be used, or children can indicate that they are part of the group in any way that they feel comfortable. This activity aims to develop an understanding and appreciation of human diversity.
Discuss with the entire group that diversity is a natural part of human life. Everybody has differences, whether that difference relates to color, gender, size, shape, religion, neighborhood or anything else. A disability is no different. It may limit a person's mobility (ability to walk) or his or her ability to hear, see, taste or smell, but it does not limit his or her strengths and abilities. Differences in a group are valuable. Those differences are where creativity and new ideas are born.
* Extracted from: UNICEF, It's About Ability: Learning Guide to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (New York: UNICEF, 2009). http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/ Its_About_Ability_Learning_Guide_EN.pdf
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