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While targeted at people involved at Citizen Advocacy, this short article offers sound advice to people wishing to use the media to raise issues around disability.
Read MoreIn this article, the author is not talking about intentional communities of people with a disability coming together, but rather mixed communities forming around shared interests. He argues that such communities foster interdependence and for individuals who have a disability. This means less reliance on paid support.
Read MorePhotography, like language, provides a powerful means of defining individuals and social groups. This paper examines the potential of photographic work as a means of exploring and reconstructing understandings of disability in an educational context.
Read MoreThis article contains suggestions for encouraging friendships for children with disabilities. For younger children, this includes being open to friendship development and the child's choices, teaching the child to interact with his peers in play, educating peers and using play materials in activities that encourage interaction.
Read MoreThis article examines three misconceptions that are evident in the debate on the education of students with disabilities. In doing so the author presents research findings that have documented the beneficial effect of education in regular classes, even for students with severe disabilities.
Read MoreThis is a comprehensive and clearly set out introduction to intellectual disability which shows how lack of knowledge and segregation of people with an intellectual disability have shaped many negative community attitudes towards people with an intellectual disability.
Read MoreThis is an inservice training manual for residential care workers which gives an overview of advocacy and the origins of the advocacy movement.
Read MoreIn this booklet we are introduced to 'JT' before and after behavioural supports were introduced into his life.
Read More"A young woman with an intellectual disability was sexually assaulted by a bus driver. She was able to give police a detailed and credible account of what took place yet she, and her parents, were told to 'go home and forget about it'. They didn't.
Read MoreAs Fitzpatrick says, "Supported living is about complete lives". In this paper, Fitzpatrick outlines the principles of personalised supports to enable people with disabilities to live in, and participate in, the life of their community.
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