The Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities sets the standard for the bio-psycho-social model of disability and outlines State's commitments to fulfilling the rights of all persons with disabilities, including children.
Below is the full text of the CRPD, as well as the text of General Comment #4 - Right to Inclusive Education (Article 24) which details State's obligations in developing and implementing Inclusive Education.
This is the link to all available translations, including English EasyRead
In the links below you can find all 14 Technical Booklets on Inclusive Education, produced by UNICEF, in ENGLISH. Other versions can be found in the following pages. Each Technical Booklet (and companion webinar) introduces a sub-theme of particular interest within Inclusive Education, and each was written by an expert, and peer-reviewed widely.
The booklets are all accessible (you can use a screen-reader to access content) and each booklet includes a quick link (Q R Code) that take you to each companion webinar (external file on Vimeo).
In 2016, the UNICEF CEE/CIS Regional Office published a Rapid Review on Inclusion and Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia that focused on four groups of vulnerable children: children with disabilities, children from ethnic and linguistic minorities, children affected by migration and girls (and boys). The full text can be found here.
A shorter advocacy paper on children with disabilities was prepared, based on the Rapid Review above, that can be found here.
All the resources on this page are free and easy to find on the web. Here you find only a small portion of the most relevant resources, or those to which Paula or DED, Lda. have contributed to....