Greetings:

I belong to the board of our local Center for Independent Living. At
tonight's board meeting, a developmentally disAbled adult
requested
to be on the board.

It is too late to be on the ballot for this year's election, and
it
was suggested that he volunteer, and sit on the board for a year to
get an idea of what is involved before he gets on the ballot. (The
nominating chair was trying to put him off totally, but I am of the
opinion that CILs should have representation from every disAbility
type, including developmentally disAbled.) He does not write, and
needs help understanding things, but I think he has ideas we have not
thought about and should consider.

I volunteered to be a cognitive interpreter for him in regards to CIL
policy and Board meetings. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to go
about it in reality. At tonight's meeting, I was able to wing it
and
he kept up pretty well, but I think we need to go over what is
happening and what we are voting on before the meeting so as not to
take up so much meeting time.

Can anyone give me hints or URLs about cognitive interpretation? Do I
need to know what his actual diagnosis or IQ level or can I continue
to rephrase or draw maps until he understands? Have I bit off more
than an amateur can chew? Should I have recommend the board hire a
professional interpreter? If so, how do we find one?

Second thoughts settling in. Is this going to be something I regret
volunteering for?

BB
Cindy Bidwell Glaze / Cerridwyn

Cindy,

Just ask the person how best to help him...I'm sure he will let you
know.

Often disability access is just plain common sense.

All the best for tonight.

Keith

PS please let me know how it goes.




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wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I belong to the board of our local Center for Independent Living.
At
> tonight's board meeting, a developmentally disAbled adult
> requested
> to be on the board.
>
> It is too late to be on the ballot for this year's election, and
> it
> was suggested that he volunteer, and sit on the board for a year to
> get an idea of what is involved before he gets on the ballot. (The
> nominating chair was trying to put him off totally, but I am of the
> opinion that CILs should have representation from every disAbility
> type, including developmentally disAbled.) He does not write, and
> needs help understanding things, but I think he has ideas we have
not
> thought about and should consider.
>
> I volunteered to be a cognitive interpreter for him in regards to
CIL
> policy and Board meetings. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to go
> about it in reality. At tonight's meeting, I was able to wing it
> and
> he kept up pretty well, but I think we need to go over what is
> happening and what we are voting on before the meeting so as not to
> take up so much meeting time.
>
> Can anyone give me hints or URLs about cognitive interpretation? Do
I
> need to know what his actual diagnosis or IQ level or can I
continue
> to rephrase or draw maps until he understands? Have I bit off more
> than an amateur can chew? Should I have recommend the board hire a
> professional interpreter? If so, how do we find one?
>
> Second thoughts settling in. Is this going to be something I regret
> volunteering for?
>
> BB
> Cindy Bidwell Glaze / Cerridwyn

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Got this from another list.  I think disabled people should apply as
a political action.  We need to remind the world and all to often
ourselves that our disability doesn't contitute our entire personhood.

Sincerely,
Martina
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Please Forward this:

Applications Available for the Bannerman Fellowship Program for
Activists
     of Color

The Bannerman Fellowship Program gives long-time activists of color
financial support in the amount of $15,000 to take sabbaticals of
three
months or more. Previous Bannerman fellows have worked on a broad
range of
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I have managed to locate a copy of "Disability in Antiquity" by Dr
Fareed Haj (1970) This book about the history of the disability
communities in the middle east.

Has anyone here read it? Have you any comments?

Are there any other publications around this subject area?

I would be grateful for any comments,

Thank you


Keith
Keith Armstrong

Martina

Thank you for the information.

Have you applied?

Keith


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>
> Sincerely,

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Hello?

It has been a long time since I have contributed to this group.

History takes a long time, part of research relates to the history
of  "the walker".

I have uploaded to the Files section of the Disability Studies Egroup
a taster from my research.  I am currently working on a walker made
in the late Roman period.  More about that later.....


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Faculte de Medecine in Paris there is a similar woodcut, on which
both feet of the child are seen clearly on the ground, which makes
the device "a walker" rather than "a scooter".  From  "The wheelchair
handbook" by Herman L Kamenetz, 1969.

What are you doing with your disability studies?

Best wishes

Keith

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I just tried it and it works,

do try it again.

all best

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London Parking Ban challenged.

A woman from Camden has gone to court to challenge the way the
central London boroughs of Westminster, Camden and Kensington &
Chelsea do not recognise the Blue/Orange parking badge.

Claire Glasman, who volunteers with WinVisible, a group of disabled
women, received a ticket for parking in a motorcycle bay in
Westminster last year.  She says: 'I was going to meet a friend
outside Westminster Abbey.  The few disabled spaces were full so my
choices were to park further away, which is physically too difficult,
to pay meter charges which 1 can't afford, or go home and leave my
friend wondering what had happened.'

Westminster Council has pursued the case to the point of sending
bailiffs who have threatened to seize Ms Glasman's adapted car.  The
case has now gone to court and the magistrate has given Ms Glasman
the opportunity to make a sworn statement that Westminster will have
to respond to.

Ms Glasman says that WinVisible, which is based in Camden, is
receiving a growing number of requests from disabled women being
pursued by Camden Council over parking tickets.  She says that she
has been told by a traffic warden that, 'Since privatisation we're
under pressure to ticket Orange Badge holders for minor offences.'

WinVisible wants to hear other people experiences - write to
Crossroads Women's
Centre 230a, Kentish Town Road London N5

Source: GLAD's  London Disability News - December 2000

Moderator's note:

Could this parking ban be in conflict with EEC member state
requirement of the right to free assembly for citizens of Member
countries?

Despite the U.K. Being one of the richest countries in the world,
there are no accessible public transport services in central London,
in fact the new Mayor of London has just ordered 35 new inaccessible
Routemaster buses.  Ken Livingstone has stated "These buses are
popular with the public and tourists".

What do you think?

Keith

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Fwd  Charging Policies for Home Care and other non-residential Social
Servicesı. Urgent
----- Original Message -----
From: David Colley



Hi,

You may not have noticed, but the Government has issued a consultation
document insultingly called Fairer Charging Policies for Home Care
and other non-residential Social Servicesı. It proposes drastic
changes to the way that disabled people are forced to pay for
essential services.  They say the aim is to make charging for
essential services fairer.

But instead, the plan is now to MEANS-TEST all disabled people
receiving home care or other community-based social services from
their local authority. But thatıs not all. The proposal is to
means-
test up to 55% of everyoneıs income. That means that we might be
lucky to come away with only some of what we earn - and still have
the priveledge of paying tax on the entire amount before they take it
away from us! This could mean paying hundreds of pounds EACH MONTH
for the basic services you need to get up, get fed, get dressed and
get out the house!


So if youıre lucky enough to have fought discrimination and get a
job if youıre a disabled person, the Government is now planning to
take away a major portion of your net salary - even though you
already pay income tax,
national insurance and council tax for Government services. This will
mean
real hardship for countless disabled people. The means-test is based
on
Income Support levels.

One of the ironies of this policy would be that disabled people would
be
paying for other peopleıs children to go to school (through
taxation), but
would have to pay for THEIR OWN community care (and other peopleıs
through
taxation and national insurance). This is scandalous!

The fine details of the means test havenıt been released yet, even
though
the Government is asking people to say what they think about the
plans now.
How can we think about the implications without the information?

I could mean paying hundreds and hundreds of pounds for vital
independent
living services for many of us. Working full-time or working at all
wonıt be
viable anymore, despite what they say about it not being a
disincentive to
work. The figures just donıt add up. Instead of independent
living,
itıs
forcing economic dependency onto us.

It means that ALL disabled people receiving community care have to
PROVE how
much they spend, how they spend it, and will have to go back to social
services to BEG for allowances to buy things they need. Itıs
Victorian
workhouse thinking, but this time time weıll be stuck in our own
homes.

The consultation documents are available at
http://www.doh.gov.uk/scg/homecarecharges/index.htm

PLEASE, PLEASE do the following:

1. write to your Member of Parliament STRAIGHT AWAY telling them that
you
think ANY means-testing for community care services is unacceptable.
If they
can find enough money for the Millenium Dome, they can surely find
enough
money for independent living for disabled people! It is offensive
that they
plan to force such a disadvantaged group to balance their budgets for
them.
You can write to your MP at the House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.
You can
find out who your MP is by going to the website
http://www.locata.co.uk/commons/

2. Send an email to Helen Woodhead (Department of Health) at
helen.woodhead@... saying what you think about the
proposals set out in OFairer Charging Policies for Home Care and
other non-residential Social Servicesı. Or even write to her at
Department of Health, Social Care Group, Wellington House (Room 216),
133-155 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG. Or even phone her on 020 7972
4039.

3. Copy this email to your friends and ask them to send in their
comments to their MP and to the Department of Health as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gladnet@... [mailto:owner-
gladnet@...]On Behalf Of GLADNET Sent: 10 January 2001
15:07 Subject: v. 6, # 3 - EU Outlaws Disability Discrimination   The
following article has been re-printed from the Autumn 2000 issue
of "Update", the bulletin of the Employers' Forum on Disability,
Nutmeg House, 60 Gainsford Street, London SE1 2NY, UK, Tel: 020 7403
3020 / Fax: 020 7403 0404, website www.employers-forum.co.uk with
their kind permission. GLADNET members seeking further information
about the Employers' Forum are invited to contact the organization at
the above coordinates.  EU Acts to Outlaw Disability Dscrimination in
Employment  ON 17 October the European Union agreed a directive to
its member nations requiring them to introduce laws banning
discrimination in employment on the grounds of disability
(undefined), age, sexual orientation or religion.  The directive will
not require any fundamental alterations to the DDA (Disability
Discrimination Act). However, because the directive does not exempt
small employers or some particular occupations, it will require the
government to extend the DDA to these areas.  The Forum welcomes the
directive, as it marks an important extension of disabled people's
rights across the European Union. It will also provide a level
playing field for companies competing in Europe, and is particularly
helpful for Forum members with multinational businesses.  It will
require a considerable education process in European countries. Up to
now, the sole response to disabled people's employment aspirations
has been a quota system, an approach fundamentally opposed to the
directive's emphasis on removing the practical harriers which prevent
equal access to mainstream employment.  The Forum's concerns - shared
by the CBI - about the content of the draft directive seem to have
been resolved. The directive will not now require the UK to introduce
the concept of 'indirect discrimination' into the DDA; rather,
employers can continue to address discrimination by making reasonable
adjustments for individuals.  Forum Chief Executive Susan Scott-
Parker commented: "We are very pleased that the government has been
able to ensure the basic principles which underpin Europe's most
effective anti-discrimination legislation - the DDA -will continue in
place."  Other EU Actions  In May the EC put forward a raft of
proposals, beginning a move towards a more rounded approach to
disability - promoting equality of opportunities though the removal
of artificial, environmental and attitlidinal barriers.  At EU level
the just announced recent inclusion of non-discrimination provision
covering disability in the Treaty of Amsterdam provides the basis for
a new rights-based approach to disability.  The EC recognises that
its own activities and programmes across all the different policy
areas can cause access problems for disabled people. The EC will:
•
seek to ensure the participation of people with disabilities in
mainstream programmes and provide specific measures in order to meet
their particular needs where necessary to ensure true equality of
opportunity • take measures to open employment within European
institutions to disabled people • seek to use EC procurement
activities to promote accessible goods and services • ensure that
projects considered for EU funding incorporate approved accessibility
standards  The EC also emphasises the need for co-ordinated policy
vision across the fields of employment, education and vocational
training, transport, the internal market, information society, new
technologies and consumer policy. This would include the following
steps:  Accessible Transport: In 1997 the EC adopted a proposal for a
directive which lays down that buses and coaches used for urban
services must be accessible to people with limited mobility,
including those using wheelchairs. To complement this major step
forward, the EC will draw up guidelines on improved provision tor
disabled people in public and private transport vehicles and
transport facilities.  Architectural Barriers The EC will identify
areas where it would be appropriate to adopt EU mandatory
accessibility standards for the built environment and will encourage
every public authority to do so.  The Digital Divide. The EC proposes
that all the European institutions and the Member States endorse the
existing Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines, making the
design and content of all public websites accessible to people with
disability.  Finally, the EC proposed that 2003 is declared the
European Year of Disabled Citizens.   Carl Raskin Executive Director
Global Applied Disability Research and Information Network on
Employment and Training GLADNET Association  Box 612 Station "B"
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1P 5P7 tel: 613 825 6193 fax: 613 825 2953 E-
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Two new enhancements to the disability studies egroup.

These are:-

Archive 1

Stories about real lives, struggles and sometimes deaths of members
of the disability community.

Archive 2

Articles, reports and other media using inappropriate language to
describe members of the disability community.


There is a treasure trove of interesting things in the file
section and good links

Keith
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So you think you know your all about disability
history?

Test your knowledge and
s t r e t c h your brain cells
with the Disability History Quiz


Have fun it's free to enter.

Disability History Quiz No.1

See the Rules in the Files Section:Disability History Quiz
before entering///thank you.

1  In what year was I.Y.P.D?

2   In what year did the BBC ban a disability rights?
alternative question
	 Who was the singer/composer?

3 What contribution did Anna Sewell [1820-1878.] make
to          literature

4 Which American President did not like photographs taken of
him
	 while he was in his wheelchair?

5 Why is "A GNU" significant to disability history?