Independent Living Institute

Families with disabled children in Dar es Salaam, December 1997

A morning in the poorer parts of Dar es Salaam is described, during which Mama Kitenge visits families with children having mental and other disabilities and works with these childen and their caregivers.

by M. Miles, 1997

0800: Pick up at the hotel by Augusto Zambaldo in a small, much-used jeep. Augusto is an experienced Italian physiotherapist, now working as Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Program Director with the CCBRT, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

by: M. Miles

Excerpt From: M. Miles (2000) Disability on a Different Model:
Glimpses of an Asian Heritage. Disability & Society 15: 603-618.

 

Models and stories embodying them arise in social situations, and any different conceptualisations in Asia cannot be understood without dipping into social history. Accounts of earlier social responses to blind people particularly in Japan, and to some extent in China, indicate a measure of both group and individual autonomy within reserved and valued occupations, ostensibly reflecting a status model more 'normal' than blind people enjoyed in much of European history.

by M. Miles, 2001-04

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This paper first appeared in: H. Cornielje, J. Jelsma & A. Moyo (eds) Proceedings of the Workshop on Research Informed Rehabilitation Planning in Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe, 29 June to 3 July, 1998. Leiden: Leidse Hogeschool; Harare: Univ. Zimbabwe.

Keynote Address at the Workshop on Research-Informed Disability and Rehabilitation Planning for Southern Africa. (Revised April 2001; some notes and references incorporated in text).

ABSTRACT

M. Miles Birmingham, UK

Contents

Abstract
Cautious introduction
Disabled people in their families
Disabled indigents supported in the community
The royal tradition
Motivation & "Worthiness"
Self-supporting disabled people
Formalising the informal?
Conclusion
Notes & References 

M. Miles,  UK.  

March 2006.  Version 3.7

Contents

MODERN MATERIALS (mid-1970s to 2006)
1.0  Cautionary Introduction
2.0  Annotated bibliography (worldwide)

HISTORICAL MATERIALS (Antiquity to mid-1970s)
3.0  Historical Briefing
4.0  Annotated bibliography (by region)
           4.1  East Asia
           4.2  South Asia
           4.3  Middle East
           4.4  Africa
           4.5  Europe

M. Miles (West Midlands, UK)

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Compiled and annotated by M. Miles

ABSTRACT.  The bibliography lists and annotates modern and historical materials in translation, sometimes with commentary, relevant to disability, mental disorders and deafness, in the context of religious belief and practice in the Middle East, South Asia and East Asia, together with secondary literature.

KEYWORDS.  Bibliography, disabled, deaf, blind, mental, religion, spirituality, history, law, ethics, morality, East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, Muslim, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Jain, Sikh, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist (Taoist).

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M. Miles, compiler and annotator
(West Midlands, UK)

KEYWORDS:  China, Japan, Korea, East Asia, impairment, disability, deafness, mental disorder, history, education, social responses, rehabilitation, welfare, bibliography.

CONTENTS

Barefoot Realities

Most of the world's disabled people live in rural Africa and Asia. Most plans for vocational rehabilitation originate in modern cities. Such schemes seldom reach rural disabled people. If they reach them, they tend to be irrelevant and inappropriate, based on assumptions distant from the real life situation of the rural disabled person. This paper starts at the other end, far from New York, Stockholm, Nairobi or Bangkok. It starts with the following probabilities:

1. Disabled people's relatives provide them with basic food and shelter for life, as far as they are able. They might not perform this duty with much pleasure, but they are well aware that it is their duty.