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by Michael Seifu (rahelmu2000@yahoo.com), Ethiopia, May 2004

If you have a speech disability and live in one of the thirteen states listed below, you can now use a new, free telephone assistance service 24 hours a day. Speech-to-Speech (STS) provides communications assistants (CAs) for people with difficulty being understood by the public on the telephone.

People with speech disabilities can dial toll free to reach a patient, trained CA who is familiar with many speech patterns and has excellent language recognition skills. This CA makes telephone calls for them and repeats their words exactly.

Book review courtesy of Common Courage Press

"What Ralph Nader did for the consumer movement...Marta Russell has accomplished in her riveting Beyond Ramps. No one who reads this book...will come away unchanged."

- Marcus Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies

Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract

Marta Russell
256 pages; Index
PAPER $18.95, ISBN: 1-56751-106-6

A WARNING FROM AN UPPITY CRIP

Munich, Germany, August 15-18, 1996

by: Linda K. Richter, and William L. Richter

In Engish

Artikeln är tidigare publicerad i American Rehabilitation Volym 24, nummer 4, Vintern 1998 Personal Assistance Services del 2 av 2. American Rehabilitaion är Rehabilitation Services Administrations (RSA) officiella publikation. Adress: 330 C Street S.W Washington D.C. 20202-2531.

Antagen av deltagarna på International Personal Assistance Services Symposium, sponsrat av World Institute on Disability. Symposiet ägde rum i Oakland, Kalifornien, den 29 september till den 1 oktober 1991.

Resolution

Hemtjänsten kritiseras mer och mer av sina brukare. Klagomålen handlar om kraftiga nedskärningar och kvalitetsförsämringar. Anledningen till dessa brister är att kommunen idag har ett trefaldigt monopol på hemtjänstområdet: som tillsynsmyndighet, som finansiär och som tjänsteproducent. Den bedömer behoven, finansierar och producerar tjänsterna. Ofta förenar en och samma hemvårdsassistent dessa tre funktioner samtidigt. Den enskilde hemtjänstbrukaren står helt maktlös inför en sådan maktkoncentration.

INEPENDENT LIVING AND YUGOSLAV* EXPERIENCE

* Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, has been now constituted as State with name Union of Serbia and Monte Negro

by Gordana Rajkov, 2003-03

Center for Independent Living of Serbia,
Presented at the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) conference in Southampton, England, 7-9 March 2003

(Another presentation at the conference: Belli, Raffaello. 2003-03. "Independent Living and some Italian Experiences.")

SITUATION ANALYSIS

by Julie Ann Racino, Deputy Director, Berkeley, California

På Svenska

The preparation of this report was supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), under Cooperative Agreement H133B00003-90 awarded to the Center on Human Policy, Division of Special Education and Rehabilitation, School of Education, Syracuse University. The opinions expressed herein are those solely of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the U.S. Department of Education; therefore, no official endorsement should be inferred.

Published in Disability & Society, 9 (4), 1994, pages 481-99.

by David Pfeiffer, Ph.D., 1994
Department of Public Management
School of Management
Suffolk University
Boston, MA 02108-2770
USA

NOW AT:
Center on Disability Studies
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
1776 University Ave UA 4-6
Honolulu, HI 96815 USA

Abstract

All of us who are disabled try to "hang in there". In my case, the expression has taken on a double meaning.

I have had multiple sclerosis for over 30 years and, as my condition worsened, I foresaw the day when I would need greater assistance with bathroom transfers.

White Paper
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Executive Summary

CHAPTER ONE: SITUATION ANALYSIS

"Legislation for Human Rights"
Stockholm, Sweden, 24 August 1998

by Jerry Nkeli, Human Rights Commissioner

Ladies and gentlemen and colleges, Today I will sketch for you the history of South Africa from the point of view of the Disability Rights Movement. In the 1970s we had no Disability Rights Movement in South Africa. Most disabled people were in institutions, they worked in sheltered workshops, they were not organized and they had no rights.

English title: NCD Releases Report on Improving the Enforcement of Civil Rights of Air Travelers with Disabilities

In English

WASHINGTON (1999) - The National Council on Disability (NCD) har släppt en betydande rapport som visar på en undermålig tillämpning av Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) sedan dess antagning 1986. NCDs rapport Enforcing the Civil Rights of Air Travelers with Disabilities innehåller rekommendationer för hur tillämpningen av medborgerliga rättigheter för resenärer med funktionsnedsättning ska förbättras. Detta inkluderar även ändringar i lagen och förbättringar hos transportdepartementet.

Följande artikel publicerades i DISABILITY INTERNATIONAL; Asia-Pacific Region, Vol.11, No. 2 1999. Disabled Peoples' International.

17-20 maj 1998 höll Chung Nip polio center och Human Care Association of Japan i det första seminariet om Independent Living i Seoul, Korea.

by Shoji and Yukiko Nakanishi, DPI-Japan
April 1998

The Japanese Government has been trying to promote decentralization for the last 6 - 7 years. The bad economic situation has strengthened this trend, with expectations that local budgets to be allocated to support it. In the field of social welfare, the plan is to move the responsibility to provide many services from the national level to the prefectural level, and from the prefectural level to the municipal level. Disabled persons are afraid that some services will be cut due to scarce local resources.

Effects on the lives of people with disabilities:

Ms. Nadash, a graduate student at Columbia University, is former Director, National Institute on Consumer-Directed Long-Term Services, The National Council on Aging.

The following is an article from American Rehabilitation Volume 24, Number 3 Summer Autumn 1998 Personal Assistance Services Part 1 of 2.
American Rehabilitation is the official publication of the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) 330 C Street S.W. Washington D.C. 20202-2531

Seminar on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities
from a North and South Perspective
Stockholm, Sweden 23 August, 1998

Dr. Federico Montero, Chairman of the Costa Rican Disability Association

by M. Miles & Farhad Hossain, 1999

Other documents by M. Miles.

This chapter was first published in: F. Armstrong & L. Barton (eds) Disability, Human Rights and Education: cross-cultural perspectives, pp. 67-86. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, isbn 0-335-20457-0, 1999. It is reprinted here by permission of the Open University Press, with slight revision.

Synopsis

In English

Abstrakt

Mattson Prince J, Manley MS, Whiteneck GG.
Self-managed versus agency-provided assistance care for individuals with high level tetraplegia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1995; 76:919-23.

Mål

Att, inom en begränsad befolkningsgrupp som består av människor med omfattande funktionsnedsättningar fastställa huruvida å ena sidan användandet av förmedlad vårdpersonal och å andra sidan personligt anställda, tränade, och betalda assistenter korrelerar med upplevelsen av förbättrad livskvalité och hälsotillstånd samt lägre kostnader.

Utformning och omgivning

Report of the CIB Expert Seminar
on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Harare 1992

Constitutionalism and access legislation

Moses Masemene, SAFOD, Lesotho

Seminar on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities
from a North and South Perspective
Stockholm, Sweden 23 August, 1998

Shanaaz Majiet, Lawyer, South Africa

I come from South Africa and am based in Pretoria where I live and work. I am please to be here to share some thoughts with you and talk about some very fundamental challenges we face as a global movement.

by K.J. Mahoney, Ph.D. L. Simon-Rusinowitz, Ph.D. S.M. Desmond,
Ph.D. D.M. Shoop, Ph.D. M.R. Squillace, M.A. R.A. Fay, B.S.

Drs. Mahoney and Simon-Rusinowitz are Project Director and Deputy Project Director, respectively, Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation. Dr. Shoop and Ms. Squillace are Faculty Research Associates and Mr. Fay is a former graduate assistant. All are at the University of Maryland Center on Aging. Dr. Desmond is Associate Professor, Department of Health Education, University of Maryland.

Yesterday Jack Kevorkian assisted the suicide of a disabled woman. At least half of the people whose suicides he has abetted have been disabled. As leaders in the disability community, we are outraged that Michigan authorities allow his killing spree to go on. We are incensed that his repeated declarations of contempt for the lives of our people have been ignored.