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Programme editor: Peter Rudlof
Editorial assistance: Wolfgang Mizelli
Presented by: Doris Rudlof-Garreis
Music: Martin Moro and Hannes Urdl
Translation: Anna Hadler

Music: “Circles" (Martin Moro)

Jochen: Well, I have been living in my own flat for two years and the living conditions have improved quite a lot because now I am in the position to lead an independent life.

Narrator: Independent Living

I can meet friends in private whenever and wherever I want without any restrictions...

Narrator: The story of a young man with disabilities from Austria

Intervjuer och research Anne Rentzsch.

© BBC News - Tuesday, February 16, 1999

The study found life was ended to "preserve dignity".

Euthanasia controls are failing in the Netherlands, where the practice is regulated and tolerated, according to a report.

The finding has led campaigners to warn against decriminalising the practice in the UK.

Voluntary euthanasia has not been a criminal offence in Holland since 1984, when courts and the Royal Dutch Medical Association drew up strict guidelines for doctors.

However, a survey into medical practice regarding end of life decisions carried out in 1996 suggests some doctors are ignoring these safeguards.

Its findings are presented in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Imagine for a moment you have a long-term disability - and an ardent desire to live independently. Let's say you use a wheelchair (as I do), and you need help getting in and out of the shower or fixing dinner or doing a load of wash.

Unless you have a family member able to volunteer 20 or more hours a week, your answer probably is a PCA or personal care attendant.

Unless you're well-fixed financially, you probably have to apply to the state for help in paying for such assistance.

Gateshead Personal Assistance Pilot Project

by Stuart Bracking and Ross Cowan

Independent Living

Independent Living is when Disabled people enjoy the same opportunities to live and participate in the community as non-disabled people, free of any forced dependency upon their family or friends, and can exercise choice and control over the decisions affecting their own lives.

As a philosophy, it is based on four assumptions:

Se: http://www.independentliving.org/docs3/stil1993.html#7

Mentalsjukhusen ska förpassas till historiens skräpkammare - ett program om Riksförbundet för Social och Mental Hälsa och avvecklingen av de psykiatriska institutionerna. 2004. Lyssna-MP3 (29:38 minuter, 27,8 MB), lyssna-RealAudio, download-RealAudio (13,9 MB). Programmet i text.

www.independentliving.org/video

Redaktionell bearbetning: Independent Living Institute.

Intervjuer med: Anton Benca, Lydia Brichtova, Ivana
Camajova, Andrea Madunová och Milan Popovic.

I det här programmet berättar fyra slovaker med funktionshinder om sina erfarenheter av Personlig assistans och Taxi för alla.

Producerat av Freak Radio (bearbetad av ILI)
Inslag av: Katharina Zabransky, Gerhard Wagner, Irmgard
Kampas, Bernhard Hruska; redaktion: Gerhard Wagner

Medverkande: Bernadette Feuerstein, Martin Kopper, Gerda
Ressl, Manuela Ressl, Peter Singer.

Radio Independent Living har bett Freak Radio i Wien att göra ett program om hur människor med funktionshinder som behöver personlig assistans lever i den österrikiska huvudstaden. Vi har översatt och bearbetat programmet.

”Vad sysslar du med?” är ett program om arbetsmarknaden för unga med funktionshinder och lagen om förbud mot diskriminering i arbetslivet. 2004. Lyssna-MP3 (26:57 minuter, 25,3 MB), lyssna-RealAudio, download-RealAudio (8,9 MB). Internet publication URLs: www.independentliving.org/radio/arbetsmarknad2003.mp3, www.independentliving.org/radio/arbetsmarknad2003.ram, www.independentliving.org/radio/arbetsmarknad2003.rm, och www.independentliving.org/radio/arbetsmarknad2003.html

 

”Att göra väl eller välgörenhetsskrammel”. 2004-04, är ett program om insamlingars vara eller inte vara. Vem gagnar de egentligen? Lyssna-MP3 (27 minuter, 25,3 MB). Internet publication URLs: www.independentliving.org/radio/insamlingar2002.mp3 och www.independentliving.org/radio/insamlingar2002.html

Motstånd – en plikt! Ett program om politiskt motstånd och civil olydnad. 2004-04. Lyssna-MP3 (26 minuter, 24,4 MB). Internet publication URLs: www.independentliving.org/radio/civilolydnad2002.mp3 och www.independentliving.org/radio/civilolydnad2002.html

What is it about disability that makes the media so uneasy? With rare exception, the media use the same shopworn stereotypes to portray people with disabilities - the pitiable cripple; the courageous and inspiring hero; the broken person who'd be better off dead, unless, of course, there's a cure just around the corner.

Why do the media continually use the same ill-fitting and inaccurate phrases such as "wheelchair-bound," "afflicted" and "special needs," that the disability community rejected long ago?

"Disability is still such a negative stereotype," said Bill Stothers, former editor and publisher of the disability magazine Mainstream and a 30-year veteran of newsrooms in Canada and the United States.

In English

Andrew Batavia är Associate Professor vid School of Policy and Management, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida.

Artikeln, Prospects for a National Personal Assistance Services Program: Enhancing Choice for People with Disabilities, är tidigare publicerad i American Rehabilitation Volym 24, nummer 4 Vintern 1998 Personal Assistance Services del 2 av 2. American Rehabilitation är Rehabilitation Services Adminsitrations (RSA) officiella organ. Adress: 330 C Street S.W Washington D.C. 20202-2531

von Elke Bartz, Vorsitzende
Forum Selbstbestimmter Assistenz Behinderter Menschen e.V.

Zunächst möchte ich mich recht herzlich für die Einladung zu diesem Workshop bedanken und kurz vorstellen. Mein Name ist Elke Bartz. Ich wohne mit meinem Mann Gerhard in Hollen- bach, einem kleinen Dorf in Deutschland, genau gesagt in Baden Württemberg. Seit einem Autounfall vor 21 Jahren bin ich ab dem 6. und 7. Halswirbel querschnittgelähmt. Daher benötige ich rund um die Uhr Assistenz. Ich engagiere mich seit mehreren Jahren intensiv in der Arbeit für Menschen mit Be- hinderungen.

by Suresh C. Ahuja
Executive Director National Association of the Blind, India
Chairman World Blind Union Committee on Social Development

Colin Barnes, Disability Research Unit, Leeds

I’d like to thank Adolf and the Institute for Independent Living for inviting me here.

Geneva, Switzerland, August 1988

This text is courtesy the

(BIC Document #88-0806 )

Until recently, the disabled have constituted a minority in obscurity. Unlike certain other groups that fall victim to discrimination, the disabled do not comprise a self-contained, close-knit social community. Instead, they populate every social sector, every class, every age group, every ethnic and religious community. And at every level, society has tended to ignore them, believing them incapable of participating in the community, or avoiding them as unpleasant reminders of the fragility of our existence.