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DAA, Disability Awareness in Action (Kampanjen för medvetenhet om funktionshinder), är en internationell upplysningskampanj riktad mot allmänheten för att främja, stödja och samordna nationella kampanjer för målen i FN:s två program United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons (De funktionshindrades årtionde, 1983-1992) och WPA, World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons (Globala aktionsprogrammet för funktionshindrade).
Imagine how shocking it would be to pick up a newspaper today and read a front-page story about a "colored" or "Negro" politician or businessman. Yet, the print and broadcast media still describe people with disabilities with equally archaic and demeaning phrases such as "handicapped," "differently abled," "challenged" and "special."
Furthermore, while journalists do not include a person's ethnic or racial minority group status in articles unless it is a crime report or pertinent to the story, a disability inevitably gets mentioned regardless of the story's topic.
Here are some guidelines for writing about people with disabilities.
Dr. Theresia Degener, legal adviser to the German Council
of Centres for Self-Determined Living and lecturer
at the Universities of Frankfurt, Mainz and Leipzig
Princeton University's Center for Human Values recently employed Dr. Peter Singer as a professor of Bioethics. Dr. Singer states "Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all."
Report to the ENIL Board Meeting
8th March 2003 Southampton
by Frances Hasler, 2003-03
The Department of Health has published monitoring figures for direct payments
usage, based on information from September 2002. They show an overall growth
in numbers since 2001 from 5423 to 7882. The most dramatic increase in take
up is among carers (more than four times as many as previously). Some groups – people
with learning difficulties, mental health service users and older people – have
roughly doubled their numbers. Growth among people with physical impairment
has been smaller – just 30%.
by Vic Finkelstein (Leeds University Centre for Disability Studies)
In this presentation I have tried to provide a background sample of where I came from and the issues that I think we were trying to deal with at the time. I hope, too, that I can introduce you to some of the outstanding problems we face in our struggle for a social interpretation of disability.
Report to the ENIL Board Meeting, 8th March 2003 Southampton
by John Evans, February 2003
There have been a number of developments in Independent Living and Direct Payments in the UK over the last few years. I shall try and highlight a few of the main issues.
In some respects we now have a Government that is committed to expanding Direct Payments considerably. This is actually to the extent that Direct Payments are now being made available to a number of other user groups. Please see the figures attached to this Report to give you an idea about this.
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
(ESCAP) established the ESCAP HRD Award in 1990. The Award is presented annually
in recognition of exemplary work in the field of human resources development
(HRD).
On October 12, 2000, the Australian Federal Cabinet approved the Draft DDA
Transport Standard. The decision requires all intra-city buses to be of low-floor
type using boarding aids for wheelchair users in the form of ramps. This article
traces the history of the milestone decision as an example and encouragement
for the movement for Buses For All in other countries.
This paper was presented at the Bristol University Centenary Celebration on 9th November 2001, as part of their series of lectures on ‘Valuing Diversity’.
When Bristol University asked me to give a lecture on Diversity and Disability, I immediately thought of Adolf Ratzka, a seasoned disabled activist from Germany. He had the UK’s disability movement splitting our sides with laughter and wonder when he presented his ‘Crip Utopia’ at one of our gatherings two years ago.
Compassion, tolerance, care for vulnerable people. “Why do these "feel
good" words, mainstays of the New Tory lexicon, make some of us feel so
uneasy?”
Partly it is that their synonyms are not so attractive; to think that someone
is pitying you or putting up with you and that they are doing this because
they see you as weak, is not a good feeling. But this is not the whole reason.
It is also because these words are chosen in favour of other words - rights,
equality, and services for those who need them.
When contemplating the future of Independent Living organisations, we should
reflect upon our history, to revisit the principles that have advanced our
independence and see if they still hold up today or if it's time to modify
them. So let us look for a moment at our rich history of building disabled
people's independence.
After 22 years in UK, Mr Ahmed decided to bring his wife and six of his children to join him from their Asian country of origin. His eldest son was twenty years old, the youngest just three. Two daughters were married, and they remained in their country. He hoped the eldest son would find work in UK, and there would be school education for the others. He did not know what could be done for thirteen year old Imran, though he had heard there were special schools for children like him.
Counsellor: In the past few weeks we have talked about children and young people with different disabilities. First we looked at the fingers on our hand, and saw that one of them is smaller and weaker than all the others. We do not disregard that one simply because it is small and weak. In the same way, one child out of ten, on average, has some kind of disability, and needs some extra help from its family and the local community. We heard from the parents of one such child who is mentally weaker. They were given advice on how to help their child at home. Those parents will be back in a week or two, to report how they have got along with teaching their child.
By Steven E. Brown, 2007-05-31
Institute on Disability Culture
Center on Disability Studies
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Honolulu, HI USA
Introduction
Thank you for inviting me to share perceptions and realities concerning the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). I have been pondering for some months now how I would address these topics. The dilemma I have faced is not only how to describe general facts and personal beliefs about the ADA, but how to discuss them in ways that will make sense in a Swedish context.
Colin Barnes
Centre for Disability Studies
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
England
Introduction
This presentation will discuss the thinking behind the development of 'direct payment' type schemes for personal assistants (PAs) for disabled people in the UK, and their relationship to the concept of independent living from the perspective of the disabled people's movement.
Attention will then centre on the British Government's policy on direct payments since the 1980s, followed by an examination of the current situation in terms of the distribution, accessibility and support for such schemes at the local level.
Härmed yrkar vi att länsrätten upphäver beslut i Stockholms
läns landsting 7/10 2003 ang åtgärder för att få
färdtjänstbudgeten i balans.
Grunden för att beslutet bör upphävas är följande:
1. Då färdtjänstnämnden behandlade det återremitterade
ärendet hade man inte kommunicerat ett korrekt referat om innehållet
i fullmäktiges återremiss. I detta yrkande låg krav på
en opartisk ekonomisk utvärdering.
Inför upphandlingen av resetjänster inom färdtjänstbussområdet står nu återigen ord mot ord. Blir det dyrare eller billigare att låta användarna själva bestämma vem de vill åka med? Att livskvaliteten höjs och att rättviseaspekten talar för ett flexiblare system verkar alla överens om. Men när det gäller att bevisa vilken tes som håller ekonomiskt blir förvirringen total.
Om man jämför det ekonomiska utfallet som Färdtjänsten hänvisar till finner man några intressanta motsägelser. Adolf Ratzka ifrågasätter Färdtjänstens beslutsunderlag:
Avgifterna för rullstolstaxi återremitterades. Protesterna hjälpte. Förslaget om att kraftigt höja avgifterna för att åka rullstolstaxi återremitterades av landstingsfullmäktige på tisdagen.
En delseger för de funktionshindrade som flera gånger den senaste tiden hållit sina protestmöten utanför Landstingshuset på Kungsholmen.
by Dr Jane Campbell MBE STIL Seminar, 26th May 2003
Independent living asserts that every life is worth living; science seeking to eliminate disability is against this principle; science should make disabled life worth living, not prevent or end it.
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States of America, and in order to place qualified individuals
with disabilities in community settings whenever appropriate, it is hereby ordered
as follows:
Section 1. Policy. This order is issued consistent with the following findings
and principles:
(a) The United States is committed to community-based alternatives for individuals
with disabilities and recognizes that such services advance the best interests
of Americans.
(b) The United States seeks to ensure that America's community-based programs
effectively foster independence and participation in the community for Americans
with disabilities.
The legislative basis for Personal Assistance at the Workplace (PAW) are the special guidelines to promote Personal Assistance at the Workplace that have been in force since 1st of January 2004. They aim at securing a qualitative as well as a quantitative increase of participation at the general labour market or for completing a vocational training (includes higher education and studying at a University in this context) of those people with disabilities that need personal support to structure their working life resp. their vocational training in an independent and autonomous way.
The legal basis for the Austrian long-term care benefit is the Federal Act for long-term care benefit that was introduced in 1993. The expressed purpose of this legislation is as follows: “The long-term care benefit aims at compensating additional expenditure due to long-term care in the form of a flat-rate cash benefit to ensure as far as possible necessary attendance and support for persons with need for care and to improve their possibility to live an independent life according to their needs.” (§1)
Let me start by thanking you all for inviting me here today.
During the last two decades of my life I have had assistance with almost all of the everyday activities “common man” does without thinking. I have spent months in hospital and rehabilitation units. I have lived in a flat connected to a service central allowing me some modicum of privacy and integrity. I have had the doubtful privilege of meeting the fifty or so personal of the “night patrol” taking turns to visit me. And since 1994 I have had personal assistance through direct payments.
There had been many negative attitudes towards direct payments in Italy. One of the reasons is attributed to the opposition of powerful organizations who run big institutions. Furthermore many people expect the authorities to solve any of their problems.
Colin Barnes
Professor of Disability Studies
Centre for Disability Studies
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
The University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England
(Statement presented to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development Conference ‘Transforming Disability Into Ability’,
March 6th 2003.)
We, four hundred participants from many European countries gathered at the 1st European Congress on Independent Living, held in Tenerife in the framework of the 2003 European Year for Disabled People, urge that the Canary Islands’ and Spanish Governments take the lead in advocating for the implementation of this Declaration in European Union policy, specifically in the work for the upcoming Non Discrimination Directive on Disability, and the European Action Plan on Disability.
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