Last month, staff at Wyvern Special School in Weymouth proudly showedoff their new 6.2m facilities. Their pupils, who all havelearning and physical disabilities, will now be able to make use of ahi-tech hydrotherapy pool, landscaped gardens, and a sensory room withstimulating music and lights. "Our school wants to be included insociety," says governor Anne Kenwood, "and at last that has beenrecognised."
New research, however, suggests significant progress still needs to bemade before disabled people can be considered fully included in society.More than a third (38 per cent) of 16- to 24-year-olds surveyed bydisability charity Scope did not know a disabled person, and nearly halfwere unable to name a famous disabled person. Perhaps more worryingly,28 per cent expressed reservations about working for a boss who hadcerebral palsy, or simply would not want to.
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