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Making leisure available to people with disability involves promoting the idea of inclusive/integrated leisure to clubs, organisations and groups. It also involves offering people with disability themselves an opportunity to discover what activities they may want to become involved in.
Read MoreThis summary gives a background to the NSW Disability Services Act (1993) and explains the purpose and requirements of the Act. It outlines the Disability Services Standards which are based on the principle that 'Persons with disabilities have the same basic human rights as other members of Australian society.
Read MoreThis material is drawn from material presented by Professor Wolf Wolfensberger at a Social Advocacies workshop in Adelaide in 1992. Written in point form, it covers
Read MoreIn this article, Wolfensberger addresses criticisms from the right and left of the spectrum. He stresses that the theories of normalization and of Social Role Valorisation (SRV) capitalise upon cultural values and the need to change at least some of those values.
Read MoreWhile service providers' main focus on consumers is service/consumer related, consumers' interests are broader: they are concerned with rights, empowerment and appropriate support to meet people's needs. This article considers why people with disability are under-represented in the running of services and the implications of that.
Read MoreThis article helps us understand why advocacy is - and will always be - important in the lives of people with developmental disability. While people with developmental disability share the same vulnerabilities as everyone else in our society, they have even less power to deal with them.
Read MoreThis article is the outcome of research into a community programme established in 1985. The programme recruits volunteers and matches them on a one-to-one basis with people with varying degrees of intellectual disability.
Read MoreTwo self-advocacy co-ordinators define self-advocacy and explain why it is needed. They emphasise that there is strength in joining with others. Self advocacy groups teach people skills in how to speak out. In addition, when people speak as a group they are more likely to be heard.
Read MorePride in identity is a crucial part of any human rights movement. Parsons asserts that the disability movement has not yet achieved 'disability pride'.
Read MoreNew reproductive technologies have brought about a situation where people may be encouraged to 'pick and choose', pressured to abort, or allowed to die at birth. Rabel discusses the ramifications of this way of thinking, quoting Alison Davis as saying
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