Am I Getting it Right?- a section of the website offering tips and guidance for authors who are working to include disabled children in their stories.
10 Ways to Start Including Disabled Children in Your Pictures - an initial information sheet aimed to help gently begin the process. Click here to download a copy - [254kb PDF].
Ideas for making stories more accessible - an information sheet looking at some of the methods to make stories accessible to all children. Click here to download a copy [164kb word document]
The image bank has three sections and shows how illustrators and children have put disabled children in the picture. The photo reference section aims to give some photographic detail of a particular accessory or equipment. The wording "What's the story?" on the enlarged images has more information and direction.
Session plans with a theme of including disabled children and which fit into the art and design curriculum at key stage 1 and 2.
Links in the image bank and our links section offer further sources of information.
Booklists to identify titles that include disabled characters.
The stories section shows how three story writing groups and illustration students put disabled children in the picture in stories and illustration.
The guest book may give you ideas about what is needed.
Read a transcript of In The Picture Project Manager Susan Clow's words on a phone in on Radio Five Live recorded on 7 July 2008.
Read the transcript of the BBC Radio 4 programme "You and Yours" which examined the portrayal of disability in children's books - broadcast on 21 March 2008 - In The Picture steering group member Alex Strick took part in the programme.