Skip to main content

Mobile menu

Back to Allfie main site
  • Themes
    • Before School
    • School Life
    • Learning
    • Getting Around
    • Living away from Home
    • Relationships
    • Opportunities and Expectations
    • Discipline
    • Identity
    • Mistreatment
    • Life After School
    • Reflections
  • About
    • About Oral History
    • About the Project
    • Further Links
    • About ALLFIE
  • Timeline
  • Resources
    • Schools Pack
    • Additional Worksheets
    • Additional Free Materials
    • Further External Resources
  • What Young People Say
    • Making Decisions
    • What Doesn’t Help
    • What Helps
    • What’s Important

How Was School?

Disabled People’s experiences of education over the last century

  • Normal
  • Dark

Secondary menu

  • Back to Allfie main site
How Was School? [logo]

Main menu

  • Themes
    • Before School
    • School Life
    • Learning
    • Getting Around
    • Living away from Home
    • Relationships
    • Opportunities and Expectations
    • Discipline
    • Identity
    • Mistreatment
    • Life After School
    • Reflections
  • About
    • About Oral History
    • About the Project
    • Further Links
    • About ALLFIE
  • Timeline
  • Resources
    • Schools Pack
    • Additional Worksheets
    • Additional Free Materials
    • Further External Resources
  • What Young People Say
    • Making Decisions
    • What Doesn’t Help
    • What Helps
    • What’s Important
Menu

Ajay Yadav

Ajay was born in India in 1977. He attended a special school in East London from the age of five to sixteen and then went on to a mainstream sixth form college and on to university from there.

Learning from Friends


Here Ajay describes the lack of sex education at his school.

Protons and Neutrons


Here Ajay describes the difference between he and his brother’s schooling.

Being Taught Properly


Here Ajay describes a wish to have been taught his subjects to a better level.

Being Myself


Here Ajay describes support and encouragement from his family making a difference.

Frustrated


Here Ajay describes his frustration with the education system leading him to seek employment after school.

Inconsistent Support


Here Ajay talks about the difficulty of having a different support worker each day.

Join the Alliance and help us build a better, more inclusive world.

Become a member

Supported by

Partners
Facebook Twitter

Main menu

  • Accessibility statement
  • Privacy and Cookies
  • Site map
  • Contact Us
  • Back to Allfie main site

Copyright

© The Alliance for Inclusive Education 2025 · Disabled People’s experiences of education over the last century

The Alliance for Inclusive Education

336 Brixton Road SW9 7AA · Tel: 020 7737 6030 · Email: info@allfie.org.uk

Registered charity number: 1124424 *