Working with schools.

Here’s looking at you kid.

How are children and adolescents to develop informed concepts of the world around them if they are only given half the story?

OneConversation have developed an offering in which they team up with local schools to address the many stereotypes around disability that children and adolescents are sold in their formative years. With support from the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commission we have cultivated a means of painlessly addressing the issue of disability hate crime at its source. Providing corrective experiences around intellectual and developmental disabilities for the young when they are most likely to victimise those who are different in order to make it through themselves has the power to change the way an individual thinks for the rest of their life.

We sit with pupils and invite to ask all of the questions about disability they feel like they never could, and provide the platform for them to connect with someone they previously considered ‘weird’, ‘dangerous’, or an easy target for ridicule. The result is that these individuals think twice when they next encounter someone who seems a little different, and encourage their peers and family to do the same. We encourage these individuals to become ‘horizontal influencers’ and help us put an end to IDD discrimination.

Some of the schools we have worked with have embedded our sessions with them in their PSHCE or citizenship syllabus delivery, whilst others have worked it in to tutorial sessions. We are very flexible in where we fit in with what a school needs, without ever compromising our message and the way we get it across. What is guaranteed are sessions that are unexpected and out of the ordinary. This without fail resonates with those we engage with more than any dry, didactic teaching, and leaves the students with a new perspective on intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Download our brochure for further information on our offering… and then sign up your or your child’s school.