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ACCESS ALL AREAS

Access All Areas is a series of films made with the creative participation of students with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) and deaf students at Walsall College. The films are all designed to encourage students with SEND, wheelchair users and deaf students to access independent travel. It gives them a wide variety of information and tips, and also provides case studies from students, parents and tutors. 

In the first film we begin by following Micheal as he negotiates his first trip on public transport. As the drama unfolds we discover how wheelchair-users and deaf people might deal with independent travel.

Viewers are given tips and encouragement regarding bus passes, uses technology, being confident, asking for help and dealing with crowds.

The other films are more documentary in style and present a variety of real-life case studies about bus and train travel with information for facilitators and parents and helpful apps.

They are 14 films in total, with subtitled versions available for all. Three films are also available as signed versions. Watch all films here.

A Catcher Media presentation for West Midlands Combined Authority with Walsall College and Walsall Council Creative Development Team.

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