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Act calls for care choice

Kafka, Bob.  1999.  Act calls for care choice.
English

by Bob Kafka, 1999

Imagine you have a stroke, your child has a car wreck or your newborn has physical and/or mental disabilities. What do you do? Where do you go? What kind of services are available?

Accessing community-based services for the growing number of people with disabilities, older Americans and their families is one of the most critical issues facing this country.

The current public system of support services was designed more than 30 years ago based on a medical model of service that held that people with disabilities, regardless of their age, should receive services in nursing homes or some other congregate institution.

Long-term Care Insurance' and Its Impact on the Population

Jürgens, Andreas.  1995.  Long-term Care Insurance' and Its Impact on the Population.
English

Presentation at the Munich Disability Policy Meeting, November 13, 1995

by Dr. Andreas Jürgens,
legal counsel to ISL, e.V. (Interessenvertretung "Selbstbestimmt Leben" Deutschland e. V. - ISL)

Zur Pflegeversicherung

Jagau, K.  1996.  Zur Pflegeversicherung.
English

Lange Jahre war eine Pflegeversicherung ein umkämpftes, ein strittiges Thema. Unbenommen war von allen Seiten immer zu hören, daß es nötig sei, das Pflegefallrisiko abzusichern. Es sollte nicht mehr wie früher dazu kommen, daß Menschen durch einen Unfall zum "Sozialfall" würden, daß deren Familien von den Sozialämtern unter Druck gesetzt werden, erhebliche Teile ihres Familieneinkommens zur Versorgung des Pflegebedürftigen auszugeben. Zum Beispiel haben die Sozialämter den Angehörigen eines in einem Heim lebenden Schwerstbehinderten vorgeschrieben, wieviel sie für ihr Auto bei einem Neukauf ausgeben dürfen - damit nicht zuviel des Geldes den Klauen der Ämter abhanden kommt, um für den Heimplatz genommen zu werden. Aber geeinigt haben sich die politischen Matadore nicht.

R168 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Recommendation, 1983

International Labour Organisation.  1983.  R168 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Recommendation, 1983.
English

This documentation is courtesy the International Labour Organisation.

Recommendation
Description: (Recommendation)
RECOMMENDATION: R168
PLACE:Geneva
CONFERENCE_SESSION:69
ADOPTION=20:06:1983

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office and having met in its Sixty-ninth Session on 1 June 1983, and

Noting the existing international standards contained in the Vocational Rehabilitation (Disabled) Recommendation, 1955, and

C159 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983

International Labour Organisation.  1983.  C159 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983.
English

 

This documentation is courtesy the International Labour Organisation.


Convention concerning Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons)
(Note: Date of coming into force: 20:06:1985.)


Description:     (Convention)
CONVENTION:     C159
PLACE:     Geneva
CONFERENCE_SESSION:     69
ADOPTION:     20:06:1983

The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,

Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office and having met in its Sixty-ninth Session on 1 June 1983, and

Independent Living World Summit

Independent Living Institute.  1999.  Independent Living World Summit.
English

The first global meeting on Independent Living was convened in Washington DC September 21-25, 1999. Over 100 leaders evaluated the movement's 30 year old history and set the agenda for the future. 


Conference reports and reflections

The Independent Living Institute invites the conference organizers and participants to publish / link to their conference reports or to share their impressions and comments in their respective languages.

The Implications of ADA for Disabled People

Heumann, Judith E.  1998.  The Implications of ADA for Disabled People.
English

"Legislation for Human Rights"

Stockholm, Sweden, 24 August 1998

by Judith C. HeumannState Secretary


Twenty-five years ago I was very excited about many of the programs in Sweden that were providing basic assistance for disabled people thar enabled them to live more integrated in the community.

Independent Living Movement: organizing for an active, disabled old age

Heumann, Judith E.  1984.  Independent Living Movement: organizing for an active, disabled old age.
English
Tools for Power: Disability and aging
Independent Living Movement: organizing for an active, disabled old age

by Judith E. Heumann

From Poster Child to Protester

Hershey, Laura.  1993.  From Poster Child to Protester.
English

Copyright 1993 by Laura Hershey

[The following article appeared in the Spring/Summer 1997 issue of Spectacle, published by Pachanga Press, Burlington MA.]

 

Orange, pink, and lavender flyers fluttered in the breeze as we handed them to any passer-by willing to take one. "Tune Out Jerry!" the flyers urged. "Boycott the Telethon!" Some two dozen of us lined up in front of the hotel shouting chants, distributing leaflets, and answering questions from the media, while the local segment of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon broadcast from a ballroom two floors above. Though I would stay outside all afternoon, I remembered all too well the scene that was taking place inside.

Memo to the World

Hawkins, Candace.  2000.  Memo to the World.
English
June 28, 2000 -- Jefferson City, Missouri

Memo To: The World
From: Candace Hawkins

Essentials of a comprehensive accessibility legislation

Hassan, Javed.  1992.  Essentials of a comprehensive accessibility legislation.
English

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

Toward a Politics of Disability: Definitions, Disciplines, and Policies

Hahn, Harlan.  1985.  Toward a Politics of Disability: Definitions, Disciplines, and Policies.
English

by Harlan Hahn, University of Southern California (1985)

Contents

 

Abstract
The Definition of Disability
The Medical Definition
The Economic Definition
The Socio-Political Definition
Toward a Politics of Disability: Traditions and Prospects
Summary and Conclusion
Notes

 

You Don't Have to be a Cripple if You're Disabled, The upside-down world of racist South Africa

Finkelstein, Vic.  1989.  You Don't Have to be a Cripple if You're Disabled, The upside-down world of racist South Africa.
English

"Bam, bam, bam". It was late in the evening and in the silence of night the door shook with the loud knocking. I instantly guessed that this could only be the security police. My friends who had been sharing a pleasant evening suddenly seemed pale and wide-eyed, as I suppose I must have been. There was nothing to do but open the door before they broke it down. Being in a wheelchair I had long ago reckoned that if the police did decide to arrest me there was going to be no escape. So at last, like other comrades that I had read about or met, my time had come...

Disabled People and our Culture Development

Finkelstein, Vic.  1987.  Disabled People and our Culture Development.
English

Paper presented at the first annual meeting
Published in DAIL No. 8 (June 1987)

 

1. INTRODUCTION

The challenge of middle age for the Independent Living Movement

DeJong, Gerben.  1988.  The challenge of middle age for the Independent Living Movement.
English

 

Ten years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the 1978 amendments to the Rehabilitation Act. These Amendments included Title VII, a new grant program for Independent Living centers. Title VII was hailed as a victory for the Independent Living Movement. Today, there are approximately 200 Independent Living centers, many of which had their beginnings in the Title VII program. But with the passage of the 1978 Amendments, the Independent Living (IL) movement crossed a threshold and entered a new stage in its life cycle as a social movement.

 

Classification of the environment - 1991

Csorba, Zoltán.  1991.  Classification of the environment - 1991.
English
CIB logo

 

 

Report of the CIB Expert Seminar on Building Non-Handicapping Environments, Budapest 1991

Contents

Accessibility in South Africa

Cohen, Neville.  1992.  Accessibility in South Africa.
English

CIB logo

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

Neville Cohen, Chairman Industries, South Africa

 

Contents 

 

Accessibility legislation in Zambia

Chizima, Febby.  1992.  Accessibility legislation in Zambia.
English

CIB logo

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

Febby Chizima, ZAFOD, Lusaka, Zambia

Canadian Action on Handicapping Environments

Champagne, Jean-Remi.  1987.  Canadian Action on Handicapping Environments.
English

 CIB logo

 

Report of the Second International Expert Seminar
on Building Non-Handicapping Environments:
Renewal of Inner Cities
Prague, October 15-17, 1987

Canadian Action on Handicapping Environments

Jean-Remi Champagne, National Research Council Canada

 

Download the Prague proceedings as a PDF file (420 KB) 

Training Manual for Media and Disability Rights

Hurst, Rachel.  1999.  Training Manual for Media and Disability Rights.
English

Disability Awareness in Action, 1999
All rights reserved

Written by Rachel Hurst
Designed and edited by Richard Light,
Published by Disability Awareness in Action.

Leading Disabled Activist, Awarded Highest U.S. Honour

Hurst, Rachel.  1998.  Leading Disabled Activist, Awarded Highest U.S. Honour.
English

On January 15th, 1998 (Martin Luther King's birthday), in a ceremony in the White House East Room, Justin Dart was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the highest civilian honour in the U.S.A. There is no disabled person who deserves this more. Justin has been a fighter for human rights and democracy all his adult life. he has witnessed the degradation, segregation and oppression suffered by so many disabled people around the world and has not only given them his love and empathy, but given his time, his energy and whatever resources he could to changing society to ensure that these horrors no longer happened.

Czech Republic warehouses disabled people - Money Earmarked for Creation of Institutions

Hrdá, Jana.  1999.  Czech Republic warehouses disabled people - Money Earmarked for Creation of Institutions.
English

Dear friends,

We have learned that on July 28th the government discussed a proposal to set aside 4 billion Czech crowns to construct new buildings for institutional care. This will happen because many existing institutions will be closed down - not due to the good sense of the government, but because the buildings have to be returned to their former owners (restitutions). The owners naturally do not want institutions for people with disabilities in their buildings.

Manufacturing assistive devices in developing countries

Hotchkiss, Ralf.  1992.  Manufacturing assistive devices in developing countries.
English

Independence through Mobility by Ralf Hotchkiss is a book about the nuts and bolts of starting a shop and producing the Hotchkiss manual wheelchair with a minimum of equipment, materials, skills and capital in Third World countries. 

Consumer Directed Personal Care Assistance - Lobbying Against Government Cutbacks

Holland, Ira E.  1995.  Consumer Directed Personal Care Assistance - Lobbying Against Government Cutbacks.
English

Concepts of Independence, Inc. logo 

Ira E. Holland, President of Concepts of Independence, Inc.

Last January the tidal wave of Republican reform finally hit New York State (as it did many other states). With it came a new governor and a new set of home care priorities focused on streamlining a program that served more than 75 thousand people at a cost of nearly $2 billion per year. The governor's goal was to slash $400 million in home care services, which would have forced me and other ventilator-dependent quadriplegics into nursing homes.

IIA Warns SOGOC: Disability Web Decision Puts Businesses on Notice

Internet Industry Association of Australia.  2000.  IIA Warns SOGOC: Disability Web Decision Puts Businesses on Notice.
English

Internet Industry Association

N  E  W  S      R  E  L  E  A  S  E

28 August 2000

For Immediate Release

IIA Warns SOGOC: Disability Web Decision Puts Businesses on Notice

Seminar on Bioethics and Disabled People (1998)

Disabled Peoples' International - European Region.  1998.  Seminar on Bioethics and Disabled People (1998).
English

Introduction

Genetics and bioethics are issues at the forefront of media interest. They directly affect disabled people's lives but we are not being invited to partake in the current debates and are mainly unaware of the issues. This seminar aims to change this situation and give disabled people a voice.

Aims and Objectives

Federal Report Recommends Making Technology Access Easier For People With Disabilities (Australia)

Baker, Jordan.  2000.  Federal Report Recommends Making Technology Access Easier For People With Disabilities (Australia).
English

CANBERRA, June 8, 2000 (AAP) - The elderly and disabled use new technologies least, even though they could benefit most from them, a new report has found.

Attorney-General Daryl Williams today tabled in parliament a Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) report which found new technology could bring huge advantages to the elderly and disabled if access problems were removed.

The report into new service and information technologies said the main barriers to using the Internet and other electronic services for the disabled and elderly were cost, limited access, concerns about privacy and security, and no human touch.

Independent Living and Attendant care in Sweden: A Consumer Perspective

Dr. Adolf Ratzka.  1996.  Independent Living and Attendant care in Sweden: A Consumer Perspective.
English

by Adolf D. Ratzka, Ph.D.

Research Economist
School of Architecture
Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden

Consultant
World Institute on Disability
Berkeley, California
U.S.A.

Spring 1986
World Rehabilitation Fund, New York
Monograph No. 34

PDF (112 KB)

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The New Genetics and Disabled People

Albert, Bill.  1998.  The New Genetics and Disabled People.
English

by Dr. Bill Albert,
Chair of the Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People
and the International Sub Committee of
the British Council of Disabled People, 1998


The following paper draws heavily on the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People's (BCODP) discussions on the issue of genetics and disabled people. Please note that this paper is NOT BCODP policy but rather a discussion document intended to encourage debate within the movement. For more information on the issue of genetics and disabled people BCODP please refer to the BCODP web site.

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Do 'assistive devices' really assist disabled people?

McLaren, Pam, Philpott Sue, Hlophe Richard.  1996.  Do 'assistive devices' really assist disabled people?
English

Assistive devices include a variety of tools and equipment that enable disabled people to be independent. A wheelchair can enable a person who cannot walk to move around their home, or to work or school. A white cane may make it possible for a person with a visual difficulty to be mobile, and a hearing aid can enable a deaf person to use a telephone. Provision of such devices help to ensure that people with disabilities function as active members of society.

The World Programme of Action Concerning People with Disabilities, launched by the United Nations in 1983, identifies three major programmes that are central if the marginalisation and oppression of disabled people throughout the world is to be addressed. These are:

European Citizen Award 2009 till Adolf Ratzka

European Anti-Discrimination Council ger sin årliga utmärkelse European Citizen Award till Adolf Ratzka, Independent Living Institute för sitt långa arbete mot diskriminerng.

Fact Sheet on Peter Singer

Stephen, Drake, Diane Coleman.  1999.  Fact Sheet on Peter Singer.
English

Background

Peter Singer, recently appointed to a tenured chair at the Center for Human Values, begins his first semester of teaching at Princeton University in October, 1999. Princeton University is a prominent leader is shaping national policy on bio-ethics.

Singer is arguing for major policy changes: people with significant cognitive disabilities and infants with any known disability should be killed when there is a benefit to the non-disabled people around them to having them removed.

The first targets of Singer's proposed policy changes are people with cognitive disabilities, perhaps the most devalued members of our community. It is time for all of us to come together in strength to oppose any threat to any one of our brothers and sisters.

Positiv överraskning i Europa Parlamentet borde påverka den pågående svenska utredningen om otillgänglighet som diskrimineringsgrund

av Independent Living Institute, 2009-04-08

EU Parlamentet röstade den 2 april 2009 med 360 mot 227 röster för en föstärkning av det planerade anti-diskrimineringsdirektivet. Bl a  ska direktivet uttryckligen betecknar otillgänglinga allmänna kommmunikationer och byggnader som diskrimineringsgrund. Här följer några viktiga utdrag ur texten från Europarlamentets hemsida

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HSO gör kraftfullt uttalande med sitt val av Ingrid Burman som ny ordförande

HSO, Handikappförbunden, valde den 13 maj den före detta riksdagskvinnan Ingrid Burman som ordförande. Organisationen består av 43 medlemsförbund som sammanlagt representerar en halv milljon medlemmar. Eftersom Ingrid Burman inte har ett funktionshinder kan man tolka HSO:s val att ingen bland HSO:s medlemmar med funktionshinder anses kapabel att vara HSO:s ordförande, att egen erfarenhet av funktionshinder räknas inte som merit. Återigen får vi stå ut med att andra för vår talan, att allmänheten får intrycket att personer med funktionshinder inte kan tala för sig själva.

IL 25 years Documentation - Adolf Ratzka on ILI

English

25 years of Independent Living in Sverige

Panel: Models, milestones and achievements by the Swedish Independent Living organisations, Adof Ratzka, 08.11.2008

Independent Living Institute – a think tank for policy development
 

IL 25 years Documentation - Anders Westgerd

English

25 years of Independent Living in Sverig

Panel: Models, milestones and achievements by the Swedish Independent Living organisations, Anders Westgerd, 08.11.2008

25 years of Independent Living in Sweden- Documentation - Susanne Berg on STIL

English

Panel discussion: Models, milestones and achievements by the Swedish Independent Living organisations, Susanne Berg, November 8 2008.

STIL is the oldest Independent Living organization in Sweden. The organization started the Swedish movement and therefore has worked the longest with the Independent Living model.
 
At the conference in 1983 the Independent Living movement was presented by Ed Roberts and Judy Heumann among others. It was presented as a movement with two sides, two legs.

IL 25 years Documentation - Adolf Ratzka

English

25 years of Independent Living in Sweden

Speech by Adolf Ratzka, Director Independent Living Institute, 2008.11.28.

The Independent Living movement and social policy
 

IL 25 years Documentation - Kerstin Nilsson

English

25 years of Independent Living in Sverige


Welcoming address by Kerstin Nilsson, vice chair STIL, 28.11.2008

Good morning dear guests and welcome to this international conference, ”25 years of Independent Living in Sweden” here in Stockholm.
 

IL 25 år dokumentation - Marilyn Golden

English

25 år av Independent Living i Sverige

Panel: Independent Living - nationella exempel,
anförande av Marilyn Golden 08.11.2008.

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)

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