Events: Sat 8 Aug 2015 - Future Planning

Choices are nice but not easy

This paper is the product of the Advancing Choice Project which has been looking into the way people with severe disabilities make choices.

Beyond the fringe

The author places disability in an Aboriginal context. An understanding of the special situation of being Aboriginal have to be acknowledged before looking at disability.

Difference and defiance

This editorial to a New Internationalist special on disability gives a brief introduction to the issue of disability cross culturally.

Barton argues that people with disabilities are being denied their human rights and the rights of citizenship. This is an outcome of their being denied a voice except on particular issues which affect them.

The eye of the beholder

The author begins by describing the lives of two boys with disabilities in India, one from a poor family with a negative experience of his disability and one from a rich family with a positive one.

Forbidden fruit

An article which discusses the sexuality of people with disabilities with an emphasis on women. The recurring theme is that the most frustrating and limiting aspect of this experience is the attitudes of other people and the assumptions that they make. Keywords: Women, Attitudes

Sex Education

Williams decided that she would avoid the often technical and constrictive approach of a 'how to teach' article because "any education has to be based on an understanding of the topic".

There's more to life than traditional employment

This is a really interesting article about the way 'employment' has traditionally been defined. Strict definitions of 'employment', 'employable' etc. tend to marginalise whole numbers of people including people with disabilities. The author also argues along similar lines about the term 'recreation'.

Promoting Inclusion through Leisure and Recreation

This article describes the aim and work of the TASH Leisure and Recreation Committee.

Liberation! - Three reports from disabled activists in Lebanon, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe

These brief but graphic accounts give the reader a vivid impression of the experience of living with a disability in a society that is in political turmoil.

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Choices are nice but not easy

Beyond the fringe

Difference and defiance

The struggle for citizenship

The eye of the beholder

Forbidden fruit

Sex Education

There's more to life than traditional employment

Promoting Inclusion through Leisure and Recreation

Liberation! - Three reports from disabled activists in Lebanon, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe