Scope's Time to get equal campaign promotes equality for all disabledpeople, and we believe communication is a basic human right. If disabledchildren are denied the ability to communicate, it isdiscrimination.
Scope produces a handbook called A Lot to Say, which is a guide foranyone whose work involves children and young people with communicationimpairments.
It is available from Scope's web site atwww.scope.org.uk/publications/communication.shtml
- Scope recognises that the cost of communication aids can also be abarrier.
Funding for the Department for Education and Skills' Communication AidsProject ends in 2006. We believe it is essential that the Governmentprovides ongoing ringfenced funding for this project. Children's abilityto communicate underlies all their other rights. We believe it's time toget equal.
Ruth Scott, campaigns manager, Scope, www.timetogetequal.org.uk
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