The Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR) and the  Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa  (IDCPPA) at the University of Cape Town invite you to join us for a lunchtime seminar on 4 June 2024 at 12:45pm. The seminar will be presented by A/Prof Marguerite Schneider & Dr Zuyi Fang.

About the Seminar:

Disability Inclusion: Theory and practice

Since the rise in the disability rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s, there have been a number of international and national policy and legal frameworks that have entrenched the rights of people with disabilities and made disability more visible. This has in turn given rise to discourses around disability inclusion and development of cross-country comparable measures of disability to ensure a uniform reporting on and monitoring of disability inclusion. In this seminar, we will review these national and international policy and legal frameworks and briefly discuss the measurements recommended by the UN Statistical Commission. The notion of inclusion will be discussed in relation to disability specifically, highlighting some of the international frameworks on disability inclusion, and why disability inclusion makes economic sense.

The presentation will describe a case study highlighting how we have designed a digital parenting programme to be more disability-inclusive, and share our plans to further adapt this intervention, by collaborating closely with local stakeholders and integrating additional evidence-based practices, to address the unique strengths and challenges faced by families of young children with developmental disabilities, especially autism.

Speakers

Marguerite Schneider is a senior scholar in the Global Parenting Initiative, University of Cape Town. Her early career was in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology before moving into broader social science research focusing on disability studies and mental health. She led the South African work on the STRiDE project which looks at strengthening responses to dementia in developing countries. She has published on disability measurement, the intersection of disability, poverty and social protection, and in mental health and dementia.

Zuyi is a postdoctoral researcher based at Beijing Normal University, China. Her research focuses on violence against children with and without disabilities. Zuyi is a Disability Research Fellow within GPI and the PI of Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) ParentText Adaptation in China. Zuyi completed her DPhil and MPhil from Oxford, her Masters in SW from Columbia University and worked as a social worker in New York providing services to families of children with complex behavioural and mental health needs.

 4 June 2024
 12:45 - 14:00 SAST
  CSSR Seminar Room, 4.29 Robert Leslie Social Science Building, UCT

Hosted by the Centre for Social Science Research and the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa