Themes

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About

About the project, about oral history, further links

Timeline

Explore the history of disabled people and education through time

Resources

Schools packs, worksheets and external links

Hear our voices

A random selection of stories from the site

Jubilee Sports Day

Here Helen talks about feeling included in Sports at school.

Normalising

Here Tara describes the medical interventions and examinations she had to endure at school.

Awful Sundays

Here Ron remembers the indignity of being marched to church.

Best Friends

Here Miro talks about his best friends in school.

Dogfight

Ron describes arriving at his second wartime school.

Treated Different

Here Samantha describes her fear of being discriminated against.

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