Independent Living Institute

Review courtesy of Ability Network, Spring 1998
Canada's Cross Disability Magazine
Review by Lucia Dutton, Executive Editor

This is one of the best general, all purpose books I've read about disability. It tells us what everyone should know about disabilities in general, while providing much specific information at the same time. The outlook and the attitudes embodied in the book are both positive and universal. As someone who has lived with MS for many years, the author knows whereof she speaks.

by Eleanor Smith, Concrete Change

Tremendous improvements in disability access have occurred since I was a child in the 1940s and '50s, using a wheelchair from age three on. Many of these improvements have come to be considered customary building practices, helpful to the general population as well as people with disabilities. In earlier years, disabled people wheeled down the street looking for a driveway to getup on the sidewalk. Now, curb cuts at corners are common. In earlier years, children with disabilities often waited outside while their friends ran up the steps into a store to buy a trinket or treat. Now, new stores offer the freedom to come and go.

På åhörarplats i en av riksdagens lokaler fanns ett 50 tal personer - riksdagsledamöter och representanter från Independent Living- och handikapprörelsen.

Sonja Fransson (s) slog an tonen på dagens seminarium med orden "Hur skall en diskrimineringslag se ut?" Mot bakgrund av IL-Sveriges arbete det gångna året och bemötandeutredningens förslag om grundlagstillägg etc verkar det numera blivit allmän sanning att vi skall ha lagstiftning mot diskriminering - frågan är bara hur den skall se ut? Det är i första hand en framgång för människor med funktionshinder och i andra hand för IL-rörelsen som på kort tid vunnit gehör för det som står högst på dagordningen - lagstiftning mot diskriminering.

In English

Enligt en källa är mäkleri en påhittig avnämarbaserad inriktning för tjänsteförmedling som har sina rötter "i framväxandet av konsumentrörelsen och utvecklingen av konstitutionella rättigheter". Termen användes först på 70-talets senare hälft som benämning på en inriktning som utvecklades av en grupp familjer på Kanadas västkust, "som anser att deras svårt funktionshindrade barn hade rätt att planera sina liv och skulle erbjudas möjlighet och tillräckliga resurser för detta".

by Craig V. Shields, 1988

Other Columns

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

Other Columns

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

If you have a speech disability and live in : ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, MARYLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, WISCONSIN, GEORGIA, and WASHINNGTON STATE, you can now use a new, free telephone assistance service 24 hours a day.

This service, called Speech-to-Speech, provides human voicers for people with difficulty being understood by the public on the telephone. The FCC expects all states to provide Speech-to-Speech in two years.

If you have a speech disability, you can dial toll free to reach a patient, trained operator who is familiar with many speech patterns and has acute hearing. This operator makes telephone calls for you and repeats your 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