Activities

Visit a local place and find out about accessibility.

Match pictures of celebrities with their jobs and learn about disability.

Try this quick quiz to test your knowledge and learn about the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower.

Sow some sunflower seeds and learn about the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower.

Try this quick game to learn more about each other and find out about hidden disabilities.

Learn about different types of assistance dogs and make your own dog hand puppet.

Learn about the support different disabled people might need at different times, by exploring the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower icons.

Explore how to spot barriers for disabled people and brainstorm ways to make spaces more accessible for all.

Find out about the range of technologies available to help people, such as Text-To-Speech and Screen Magnification.

Learn about tactile features, then spell out a word in braille, which is a tactile code, using biscuits and sweets.

Create a robotic hand to learn how prosthetics help some disabled people move and perform everyday tasks!

Learn more about disabilities by inviting a member of a charity organisation to chat with your group.

Get creative and discover how people interpret the world in different ways.

Get creative and make your own stories to show how you’ve been helping others.

Celebrate your achievement, write to your local newspaper, and encourage others to take action.

Decide how you’ll make more change and create a storyboard to show your plans.

Use all you’ve learned and pledge to take actions to create a more autism-friendly world.

Create a map of the autism-friendly spaces in your community and help others see what more needs to change.

How is disability presented on screen? Dive into some research, then add a new disabled character to your favourite TV show.

Inspire local businesses to become autism-friendly by showing them what needs to change.

Have a chat with local decision makers. Are they autism-friendly? What will they help to change?

Encourage local businesses to commit to being autism-friendly and create a more accessible and inclusive community.

Put on an inclusive community day to show your local area how simple changes make communities accessible for all.

Share your understanding with the community and tell them how to support autistic people.