1. Mixing Mirrors Anne Tynan Director, DIVERSE & LIVE! Fellow

2. Breaking Boundaries 2005 • Widening Participation • Admissions • Disability Anne Tynan

3. Out of the mouths of….. • “We don’t want our image tarnished by disabled people, thank you very much.” • “Just because I’m disabled doesn’t mean that I’m suddenly also black!” Anne Tynan

4. Mixing Mirrors in the Admissions Process • Applicants are reporting that they are being asked to look in a mirror and see someone else • WP seems to have diverted the attention of some admissions staff • Disability is ALWAYS the less glamorous Cinderella within WP Anne Tynan

5. Disability and Admissions • Two key issues: • 1. Competence • 2. ‘Added competence’ & Identity = enhancing professional interactions with disabled people as patients Anne Tynan

6. Competence • Time To Take Stock: Disability and Professional Competence • Alternative methods of competence • Clearer indication of what constitutes incompetence Anne Tynan

7. ‘Added Competence’ & Identity • Two strands: • Work of Disability Rights Commission to ensure equality of healthcare provision for disabled people • Developing awareness of the realities of failures by healthcare professionals Anne Tynan

8. Mirror, mirror on the wall… • “We do everything else together so why not this?” (The Diary of Bess Brennan – The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932) Anne Tynan