Disability History Month Flagship Event

Disability, Children and Youth: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

Join us for a panel discussion exploring this year’s theme for UK Disability History Month: Disability, Children and Youth. The event will be hosted by Professor Elizabeth McCrum, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience and UEB Diversity Champion for Disability at the University of Reading, who will be joined by the following panellists:

Dani Czernuszka-Watts: Dani is a current member of the Great Britain women’s para ice hockey team. Dani’s achievements include being selected to represent the men’s team at the World Para Ice Hockey Championships, C-Pool, in 2022, where she was the first woman recorded to score a goal at a World Championship.

Ruth Pearse: Ruth is founder and CEO of a Berkshire based charity supporting families of children/young people and young adults who are neurodiverse, have special educational needs or disabilities and children/young people who have experienced early life trauma.

Anna Tsakalaki: Anna is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Reading’s Institute of Education, who has researched areas including literacy development and literacy difficulties in different languages, homeschooling and wellbeing of young learners with special educational needs or disabilities during the first two years of the pandemic, and inclusion of learners with special educational needs.

Sophie Flecknell: Sophie is the Disabled Students’ Officer for Reading Students’ Union, who represents and advocates for disabled students at the university and aims to ensure that disabled students have the best university experience possible.

Open to all – booking essential.

A BSL interpreter will be present during this event.