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The Potential Role Of Advocacy In "Imagining Better"

Advocates are frequently people who have become persuaded that the world can be "better" than it is, and it is incumbent upon them to struggle for what might bring this improved world into closer proximity.

The Homes West Experience - Steps to Independent Living for Adults with a Disability

Homes West is a small community based service established in Brisbane, Queensland as a result of families having a dream of a better future for their child with disability.

Social Role Valorisation: A Proposed New Term for the Principle of Normalisation

This paper by Wolf Wolfensberger - is the Director of the Training Institute for Human Service Planning, Leadership and Change Agentry at Syracuse University and the founder of citizen advocacy - proposes the term "social role valorisation" as a replacement for the principle of "normalisation".

Integration Imperative: Including Children with Disabilities in the Regular Lives of their Local Neighbourhood Schools

Mike Steer reports on a talk by Doug Biklen, Director of Special Education and Rehabilitation at Syracuse University, New York given at Victoria College, Melbourne. ,This is a very significant article which explains clearly and simply what needs to be done for inclusive education to really work.

The Emperor is Naked: The Truth about Educational Integration

This succinct article grasps in a 'nutshell', the concept of inclusion for children with disabilities and strongly advocates that parents and their allies are in the most powerful position to change the status quo and push the educational system forward.

The Integration Imperative

Doug Biklen, Director of the Facilitated Communication Institute at Syracuse University, discusses the formidable obstacles to inclusion for people with disabilities - for example, using special programs to meet their every need or giving up in the face of community resistance.

The Integration Action Manual

This manual is aimed at assisting parents in Victoria to recognise good integration (inclusion) in schools and therefore to enable them to ensure their child is receiving an appropriate, inclusive education as their right.

From integration to inclusion: The Canadian experience

Uditsky moves through an historical overview of the education of students with significant disabilities in Canada, focussing on the parent movement because they were and are the principle leaders and agents of change. Several other themes run through this chapter: 1.

Ordinary Lives