**[00:02:08] - Challenges faced by people with intellectual disabilities**

Soufiane highlights barriers like stigma, communication challenges, inaccessible spaces, and fear of backlash from caregivers.

**[00:03:22] - Strategies for impactful self-advocacy**

Soufiane suggests collaboration with other organisations, sharing personal stories, engaging policymakers, and using social media. Leadership skills and clear goals are crucial.

**[00:04:40] Promoting inclusivity in self-advocacy groups**

Soufiane emphasises providing easy-to-understand information, ensuring diversity, sharing decision-making roles, and building long-term relationships with policymakers.

**[00:08:17] Challenges with tokenism and accessibility**

Guillaume shares examples of self-advocates facing tokenism and inaccessible public events, highlighting the importance of proper preparation and meaningful participation.

**[00:12:04] Advice for new self-advocates**

Guillaume encourages joining experienced groups, building confidence through collective action, and sharing personal stories to drive change.

**[00:14:23] Success stories in advocacy**

Guillaume provides a few examples and best practices to inspire listeners.

00:21 Overview of Breaking Barriers Program

01:14 Enable Scotland's Operational Pillars

04:15 Breaking Barriers: Program Details

05:14 University Experience and Challenges

09:17 Work Experience and Graduation

16:26 Employer Perspective: Scottish Power

25:06 Benefits and Impact of Breaking Barriers

30:35 Funding and Sustainability

33:49 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

[1:35:8] Who’s Elisabeth Lamers and how she started her work

[4:17:2] What comes after a child with disabilities finishes school?

[6:24:7] When Elisabeth joined UNAPEI

[10:09:0] How UNAPI works

[12:49:9] Self-advocacy in UNAPEI

[18:02:2] The survey

[31:41:3] UNAPEI’s purposes

[40:09:7] The achievements of UNAPEI

[1:30:0] The beginning of the story. A journey of commitment and passion

[8:35:0] Jyrki joins Inclusion Finland

[9:43:0] When Jyrki realises that getting services for children with disabilities can be hard

[13:01:00] Start of advocacy

[15:46:0] The efforts of Jyrki arrives to the politicians

[19:52:0] The work that’s left to do for people with disabilities

[27:34:0] The application of the UNCRPD

[49:31:0] Parents of children with disabilities

[54:07:0] The importance of Inclusion Europe and the other organisations

Conversation with former President of Inclusion Europe, Maureen Piggot.

Time stamps:

[00:00:42] Maureen’s youth and her first approach to disabilities 

[00:07:51] Maureen’s work with Mencap 

[00:13:13] Disability awareness in 1988 and today 

[00:16:23] The parents movement and the Disability Discrimination Act 

[00:36:41] The importance of self-advocacy and deinstitutionalisation 

[00:55:03] Maureen’s experience in Inclusion International 

Marie Devitt (TCPID Employment Pathways Coordinator) and Hugo MacNeill (TCPID Ambassador) gave an overview of their innovative TCPID programme and their partnerships with businesses. Sadbh Feehan (TCPID Graduate Intern) presented her own experiences, as a student in Trinity College Dublin and more recently as a graduate intern.

Timestamps

2:00 Introductions

3:17 Programme description

4:23 Internships, new programme and graduation

5:40 Business partner offers and financial support

9:20 Variety of programmes and value to partners students and society

11:35 Student work placement

12:10 Graduate internship programme

13:21 College team and mentor training

16:14 Developments into permanent roles

17:24 Feedback and success of the programme

20:51 Working with the Government of Ireland

22:32 Story of a student, graduate intern

28:29 First internship experience

41:04 If employees were reluctant to give young people on or they didn't know what type of vote to give a young person, what would you say to those employers?

44:01 Economic point of view, these are young people who are paying tax

More information: The road to employment: Trinity College's programme for people with intellectual disabilities - online presentation - Inclusion Europe (inclusion-europe.eu)

One of the many challenges that people with intellectual disabilities face is technology and more specifically surfing the web. This is why we invited, Inge Rutsaert from AnySurfer to talk about how to facilitate web navigation for people with intellectual disability.

Camilla Lindholm and Ulla Vanhatalo are professors and researchers at the University of Tampere and the University of Helsinki, respectively, and they wrote a book about easy languages in Europe.

Neil Crowther is a freelance consultant from the United Kingdom. He previously worked for the Disability Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission in the UK.

[02:22] What is social care future?

[07:09] Pillars of social care

[11:37] NGOs have to help people understand, picture, and visualise the world we are advocating for

[16:43] Hopeful communication of social care future

[20:05] Using words that everybody understands

[22:37] Showing the results and [24:24] raising expectations

[26:09] How was the communication research conducted?

[38:13] How is social care relevant for people in need amidst the work on communication?

[40:38] We need the existing resources to be used much more effectively

[45:01] Disability rights when ageing

[55:58] Social care as relationship-centred support

[01:00:23] The visual story

Milan Šveřepa, director of Inclusion Europe interviewed Simo Vehmas and Reetta Mietola, authors of the book Narrowed Lives.