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This study provides a detailed examination of the extra costs incurred in participation in activities of the general community such as paid employment, further education and training, and attempts to explain their variation. The study raises a number of questions.
Read MoreThis paper discusses the practice of sterilisation on women who have an intellectual disability for reasons which would not normally be considered for women without a disability. Many women with disabilities have undergone sterilisation without any knowledge or understanding of the procedures.
Read MoreThis article highlights the issues associated with offences committed by people with moderate of severe disability. A concern is that when an illegal act is committed, service providers take over the roles which would otherwise be played by police and the court.
Read MoreThis article looks at why women with an intellectual disability have not had access to the full range of options that are offered to women without an intellectual disability.
Read MoreThis collection of article and letters was compiled by NCID as part of a campaign to remedy the overuse of drugs to control the behaviour of people with intellectual disabilities in state run institutions. Keyword: Health
Read MoreThis paper by John McKnight, the founder of the Centre for Urban Affairs and Policy Research at Northwestern University, Illinois, takes an acerbic look at the American health system and his theory that medicine purports now to offer not just the elimination of disease but the perfection of life, as...
Read MoreThis brief prose, reprinted from the Values into Action newsletter, emphasises the difference between people's interpretation of the life of a person with a disability and a person without a disability.
Read MoreThe Turnbulls, parents of Jay who has an intellectual disability, tell two different stories about Jay. One is about his life when he was using services typically used by others with disabilities and one is about his life now, when he is living and working inclusively within his community.
Read MoreIn this article, Wolf Wolfensberger (Director of the Training Institute at Syracuse University, one of the world's foremost developers of Social Role Valorisation and is the founder of citizen advocacy) notes that in contemporary society many non disabled people see those who do have disabilities in a negative light but...
Read MoreThis paper is a copy of a submission detailing the beliefs of the organisation and the changes it wants in policies, practices and schools. Keywords: Education, Inclusion, School Age
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