Interesting.
I didn't realise that the EU had a required that books include a person, or persons, with disabilities.
As a Health and Safety Compliance Officer I am well aware of the requirements for researching, documenting and ensuring the safety of disabled persons. As of yet we have not been required to import disabled persons to test the procedures.
I can say, from first hand knowledge, that Jasper's book are wheelchair, and disability friendly, unlike the London Tube system.
nettie63 Wrote:
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> Not sure where to put this as there doesn't seem
> to be a forum for"Ask Jasper Anything You Like" so
> I thought I'd post it here:
>
> Dear Jasper
> I am a seriously 'mature' PhD student who happens
> to be paraplegic since birth. For part of my
> thesis I am examining perceptions of disability
> within modern fiction (for the other part I have
> to write two children's novels which challenge
> those perceptions).
>
> I am a big, big fan of TN novels - just got TN6
> delivered from Amazon yesterday, yay! (I have also
> read the Nursery Crimes series and Shades of Grey,
> honest).
>
> But I can't help noticing there is a definite lack
> of characters with physical disabilities,
> particularly from birth rather than acquired.
> (Being blue doesn't count as a disability, does
> it?) Is there a reason for this? I did wonder if
> Goliath had hearded them all together and shipped
> them over to the People's Repubilc of Wales, it
> being much more cost effective than providing them
> with assistive technology, or researching
> cures...
>
> As an aside, I would love to have had an Uncle
> Mycroft in my life. I'm sure he would have
> invented for me the most amazing super-dooper
> multi purpose wheelchair that could cook my
> breakfast, take the dog for a walk and hoover
> round before I even got out of bed in the morning.
> And, let's face it, who would want a 'cure' if you
> could have all that? I've heard walking is pretty
> over-rate anyway :-)
>
> Hope to see you in Brecon in July.
>
> Nettie63
> BTW Just realised this is actually being written
> from the People's Repulic of Wales so maybe I've
> stumbled onto something Goliath have trying to
> brush under the carpet...
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