The Department of Disability Inclusion and Special Needs (DISN)

DISN is a unique Department engaged in promoting inclusion through multi-disciplinary working, researching the role of mainstream and special schools and pedagogies, and educational achievement.

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Members of DISN

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UK Disability History Month

Accessibility: How far have we come? How far have we to go? Explore our exciting programme of events which run from 18 November until 18 December 2020

birmingham.ac.uk/dhm

The Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER)

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The Vision Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research (VICTAR)

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Upcoming Events

The human library - Stories from the UAE Desert

26Nov

DISN Disability and Special Needs in the current COVID crisis. How can we re-create what education needs to look like?

26Nov

Innovating Educational Research, Theory and Practice: Time, Space and Place

28Nov

DISN Celebrating autistic talent

30Nov

Latest DISN publications

Harris, M & Terlektsi, E 2021, Literacy Attainment Among Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing The Past, the Present, and the Future. in Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Literacy.

Soni, A & Presswood, S 2020, 'A child's eye view: children's views of nursery after Covid 19' Nursery World.

Mumford, J & Soni, A 2020, 'A reflective account of remote supervision for Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP)', Attuned Interactions, no. 8.

View all Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs publications in research portal

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DISN in the News

Posted 04 November 2020

Successful reaccreditation of the National Standards SENCO Programme

The National Standards SENCO Programme has been reaccredited by The NASENCO Provider Partnership.

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