IBWSC 2017

GAT Project Planner and Summary – Diff-Abilities

Project name: / Breaking boundaries between Ability Groups
GAT Name/Leader: / The GaggleOGat - Steve Smith
Background: What needs have you identified and hope to address by the project? (link to themes and content of conference) / Mission & Objectives: What do you want to achieve?
Breaking boundaries between people with Different Physical and Learning Abilities (Diff-abilities) / We want to break down the perceived or real boundaries between people
Activities (objectives):
How the project will achieve your goals / Collaborators: What groups are important in the development and implementation of the project? (within the organization)
The project has distinct activities for each of the ability groups. Provided digitally. / This can be entirely student run and resourced by the student participant.
Partners: What groups or organizations are crucial to the development of the project? What are their roles? (outside the organization) / Timeline: What sort of timeline have you developed?
Groups who work with students with Special Needs can help to give information about the learning and physical needs of the local students / This activity can be done as short term activities or a longer day long if wanted
Budget/Resources: What funds and materials are needed? / Communication: How would you use social media or other approaches to communicate your project?
A Range of resources are needed to carry this out. Paper and pens, Wheelchair, Headphones and ipod or laptop / You can make a series of fact sheets for each diff-ability, these can be shared digitally. Video for each of the abilities can be created and shared.
Evaluation: How you will measure success? What challenges would you have to overcome as a result of implementing this in the real world?
This can be easily implemented in many different places by a range of groups or individuals.
The measure of success is that there will be an increased understanding of the abilities.
The challenges to overcome are the ability to speak to people about Different abilities.