Events: Sat 8 Aug 2015 - Future Planning

Tyrannies of perfection

Discusses the impact that abortion, euthanasia, screening and genetic engineering have on the issue of the right to life for people with disabilities.

Parent/family involvement in quality assurance

An article addressed to parents of children with disabilities.

Letting go of the 'forever' child

In this paper on 'A Fresh Perspective on Inclusive Living' presented to NCID's 1993 Conference, Hailstone describes her experiences of raising a child with a disability.

Friendship: Do those in authority think it really matters?

A description of a close friendship between two people who attended the same day centre. The friendship was under threat because of bureaucratic considerations and this article is written by a person who became involved in trying to safeguard the friendship.

The Needs of People with Disabilities; the Needs of their Parents - are they different?

This article draws on Erick Leipold's keynote address to Disabled Peoples International (DPI) National Assembly. Leipoldt spoke about the need for parents to allow their child with a disability to be given opportunities to grow and develop as individuals rather than be held back and over-protected.

Disabling or enabling?

The authors trace a brief history of education policy in Australia which has contributed to the present climate in which inclusion as possible. The authors go on to illustrate, however, how exclusionary practices can persist in spite of policy changes and argue that this occurs because of attitudinal reasons.

Social reform through empowerment

Dulcie McCallum, the Ombudswoman for British Colombia (Canada,) analyses two historical processes that have taken place in most Western political systems: firstly, the historical development of service and other systems by governments.

Thoughts on influencing governments

Having studied the interaction of governments and advocates in Canada over the past few years, William Young writes some brief thoughts about the ways in which people have achieved change within their own communities and regions.

I am because we are

A father writes passionately of the effect that new guardianship legislation in the USA will have on his daughter and many other people with intellectual disabilities.

Eugenics Bill - China: Eugenics is not a cure

The first of these articles is a description of the disturbing eugenics bill submitted this year to the Chinese parliament whereby the state will use abortion and sterilisation "to avoid new births of inferior quality and heighten the standards of the whole population".

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