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As I explore Wiki potential I will learn better ways of organising my material. In the meanwhile, if you have any suggestions, please mail me at 'claire.ozel@gmail.com'
Do we sometimes over-protect, mistrusting and assuming the worst?
Claire Thomas Özel
Family tree December 2005, prepared by Ruth Poultney-Thomas-Alexander
Language learning
NEW AccessEnglish [1] is collecting material about ways for disabled people to learn English
Language learning: writing exchanges
Inclusive communication Non-Violent Communication and disability. Some notes
Humanising Language Teaching, the only English language teaching source that I go to [2]
Signing into English September 2006: a young neighbour was not happy after her first ever English class, so we sat down...
Ecology:
GunesKoy ecovillage project [3] 65 kilometers East of Ankara.
Disability
Inclusive communication Non-Violent Communication and Disability
EU project Towards Inclusive Universities [4]
Disability and language
Give me mistakes prompted by Mario Rinvolucri, 2001
Language impaired , the outcome of my meeting my first hearing impaired student, published 2003.
Inclusive ELT published in IATEFL newsletter Voices Issue 205, November-December 2008 [5]
Disability in Turkey
METU Disability Support Coordination Unit [6]
While the site is waiting for redevelopment I will add materials here:
Görme Engelliler için Web Sayfalarında Erişilebilirliğin Sağlanması
Turkey's youngest cane user In 2006, for the first time a young child was given a cane...
A student with special needs... in MY class?! 1998. My first paper on disability in education, starting from where I was: visually impaired learners in an intensive university English language preparation programme. In my first semester at METU Prep.School (Middle East Technical University, [7], English Language Preparation School)
Beginners in the Dark work started with blind children, then taken into mainstream teaching
A Special Interest Group on Disability 2003, for the first time I considered how disabled students could be officially supported during their English learning.
Way beyond the Rubicon November 2003, written on the 1st anniversary of Ruby Khan's untimely death. Your spirit carried me through some hard moments of bitter isolation. Today - 14.8.2007 - Asia is celebrating 60 years since Partition. Ruby, in the early 60's your family moved Westwards to Britain; in 1993, you guided me as I was moving Eastwards, to Turkey. Though you were never able to write down all those stories you had in mind, incidents in yet another wave of human migration, your memory and your energy live on. İyi ki vardın
"Feel your way around an unknown classroom" [8] Guardian Weekly, 13 November 2003
Celal Çelik One person's story.
Disability Abroad
Questioning assumptions , written by the Turkish participants at a EuroMed project in Cairo, July 2004.
Euro-Med “Sports for All”, Cairo July 2004 Turkish report
Iran 2004 Before getting on the bus in Ankara I'd started to attempt basic Farsi sentences; 38 hours later I arrived in Tehran for 9 intense days, meeting people who have since carried on working together. August 2004
British Council Study Tour Report An 8 day programme to investigate support for disabled students at 7 British universities, meet people from 5 NGOs and many individuals active in the UK disability movement. November 2004
A garden without barriers [9]
Bicycles for all [10]
Scenes of Silence; an exhibition on Non-Verbal Communication [11]
Useful
Poster making How to design professional-looking posters yourself. (Feb 2009)
Good management a draft text that will probably grow as long as I exist. 2008
Report writing for Ali, and many others who have wanted to write but not been sure where and how to start. 2008
Maps to make you think on WorldMapper [12]
Free touch typing program: English [13]
Turkish, English, German online dictionary [14]
Translation between many languages, including Turkish [15]: good for individual words, much less acurate with sentences.
Science [16]
European Voluntary Service: mainpage [17] and EVS database [18]
Right to Die with Dignity [19] worldwide organisations.
Other articles
One February in Muş 2002
Avoiding Mathematics Trauma, written with Ünal Ufuktepe, 2003.
Tablet weaving in Bhutan Reflections on my 1991 travels, written for Margaret Seagroatt. (Sorry, I'm having problems linking the pictures at the moment)
and some creations...
Tozzles Touch puzzles arose from watching children at a school for the Blind play: what stimulation were they missing out on, and how could this be provided? Tozzles now stimulate sighted people too, and are used in training sessions, to allow people to realise how to tackle certain tasks without sight, and analyse the feelings and emotions experienced in a new situation. Everyone reacts differently, according to their prefered learning style.
Some of the tiles in bathroom
Applique 
And some other good things...
The Living Library [20] is an innovative method designed to promote dialogue, reduce prejudices and encourage understanding.The main characteristics of the project are to be found in its simplicity and positive approach.
Nicholas Roerich [21]: paintings reminded me of those of Emily Carr [22] and Roerich's pact, for peace and preservation, is perhaps even more important in the 21st century.
Turquoise Mountain [23] conserving historical monuments (and much more) in Afghanistan.
Toys by Evangelia Balta, 2007
Barack Obama on Empathy 2006
Oktay's departmental website [24]
A source of fun mathematics materials [25]
Origami by an expert [26] and something more general [27]
Book-cuts, and more by Su Blackwell [28]. See a paper ad being made, and how origami birds can make people think about something easily forgotten.
Papercuts by Peter Callesen [29]
The Campaign for Plain English: how clearly can you write? [30]
An impressive example of what alert citizens can do [31]
Advice for new graduates, Steve Jobs at Stanford University [32]
Worldmapper [33]: a powerful representation of where strengths and weaknesses, and irrational imbalances exist in our world.
Sleepy Jack and the Ghost Band [34] took a 5 day interail to come and visit, nearly 40 years after I last saw 'Harry's mother... Don't try to understand, just enjoy the music. Note: 'Strangers' reflects on the impact of Alzheimer's
SpaceSounds [35]
for more on wiki syntax: [36]
