Course Description & Objectives:
Objectives:
- Students will show understanding of different models of disability
- Students should have basic understanding of the key issues involved in community development and the implications for disability and rehabilitation
- Students should demonstrate skills in working with disabled people, organisations and communities to bring about change
Content:
- Culture and attitude to disability and rehabilitation
- Incidence and prevalence of disability in Uganda
- Models of disability and disability in development
- Roles of disabled organisations, human rights and disability
- Working approaches in disability
- International and national legislation / policies / documents in the field of disability and rehabilitation that are relevant to Uganda
- The impact of gender, disability and HIV / AID’s on disability on the individual, their family and community
- Working with colleagues / organisations e.g. role of speech and language therapist in CBR, sensitisation, working with allied health professionals, education and community workers, voluntary groups, NGO’s etc
- Community mobilisation and sensitisation
- Practical exercise in planning and preparing materials for community awareness / sensitisation e.g. poster: sensitisation to speech and language therapy
