Independent Living Institute

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Letter of transmittal

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.

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. 

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.

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

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

In: Seminar on Bioethics and Disabled People, 1998.

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.

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

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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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