Research Catalog

Title

New voices : self-advocacy by people with disabilities / Gunnar Dybwad, Hank Bersani, Jr., editors.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Brookline Books, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dybwad, Gunnar.
• Bersani, Hank A.

Description

x, 272 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Self-advocacy by persons with developmental disabilities was unthinkable three decades ago. Then, in western Canada and in the northwestern United States, people with disabilities began to speak out for themselves. Today, the movement keeps growing and expanding! Persons with developmental disabilities are speaking out and organizing themselves to seek better, non-institutional living situations, social and political equality, and decent jobs at reasonable pay. This collection of original papers - many by self-advocates themselves - vividly illustrates the dynamic nature of this movement. It provides historical background about the origins of the self-advocacy movement across the Western world - the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Australia. It examines the current status of self-advocacy activities by persons with developmental disabilities in each of these countries. Finally, it projects the movement's future course as it continues to accelerate worldwide. The editors of this important collection are uniquely qualified by their long and intimate connections with the self-advocacy movement in this country and around the world. New Voices is a document of historical importance; it also represents a large step in the movement by persons with developmental disabilities to claim their full rights and privileges as citizens of their nations and the world" -- Back cover.

Subject

• People with mental disabilities > Political activity
• Social advocacy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / David Braddock -- Introduction / Bob Williams -- 1. Setting the Stage Historically / Gunnar Dybwad -- 2. Self-Advocates On The Move: A Journalist's View / Robert Perske -- 3. "It's Been A Struggle": Her Own Story / Barbara Goode -- 4. Handicap Consciousness / Ake Johansson -- 5. Thoughts in Me / Elisabeth Broberg -- 6. Address to the National Conference Of and For People with Intellectual Disability: Gothenberg, Sweden, 1987 / Thomas Holmqvist -- 7. Parents' Expectations and Demands / Ake Johansson -- 8. Self-Advocacy and the International League / Robert Martin -- 9. "In Their Best Interest": How Self-Advocacy Came About in the ILSMH / Helmut Spudich -- 10. The Right to Self-Determination in Sweden / Patricia McKenna -- 11. A History of People First in Canada / Bruce Kappel -- 12. The Rise of Self-Advocacy in Great Britain / John Hersov -- 13. The Wheels of Self-Advocacy in Australia / Lynn Romeo.

ISBN

1571290044 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95050279^

OCLC

• 33861852
• SCSB-12598211

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library