Table of Contents for Issue no. 7 March-April 2001
Access and Technology
Organizing and Hosting a Cyber Café
Between May 1999 and November 2000, Sean Ennis and Peggy Martinez assisted in organizing and hosting cyber cafés at three U.S. conferences on employment of women with disabilities and two international conferences on the inclusion of children with disabilities into the community...
Guatemala Hosts Hands-On Conference of Mobility Providers
"It's a chance to get away from your job and change lives too," is how conference organizer Mark Richard described the second annual conference of the Association of Mobility Providers (AMP) , held in Chimaltenango, Guatemala...
Two Rights Collide in Japan: Copyrights vs. Access
A new development is currently underway in Japan to improve access to information by persons with disabilities...
New Zealand Launches New Access Standard: More than Ramps & Big Toilets
"NZ has come a long way in the 34 years since access meant the kerb-cut, the ramp, the big toilet and the access symbol," said Bill Wrightson...
Spain: Providing Electronic Assistance for People with Disabilities
The President of the Andalusian Conference on People with Physical Disabilities (CAMF), María Angeles Cózar and Asisttel's CEO, Shay Rosenstein have signed a cooperation agreement...
Made in South Africa: Wheelmaster Boat for Wheelchair Users
The "Wheelmaster" is specifically designed and aimed to assist any active paraplegic to have access to any waterway for the purpose of fishing - birdwatching - photography...
Access and Technology briefly
International Coalition of Access Engineers and Specialists (ICAES) formed by former Association of Access Engineering Specialists (AAES) Board of Directors...
Arts and Media
Sexuality Reborn: Video Review
If you're looking for some great quotes, watch this video. Here is just a sampling: "I tell my friends at work: You don't know what good sex is until you've had 'a wheelchair man'"...
New International Film Explores Disability & the Holocaust
Liebe Perlais an extraordinary new video that documents Nazi Germany's brutality towards disabled people through the exploration of a friendship between two women of short stature...
Reflection on the Paralympics, A Main Event, But Not Broadcast in Latin America
In Latin American countries generally the Paralympics are not shown on regular television stations as are the Olympics...
Scholarships Available for Summer Theatre Workshops, USA
For twenty-five years National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped has been giving people's with disabilities the highest level of training in the theater arts...
Big Differences in Two Disability Videos Using Children as Hosts
KidAbility and Small Differences are both hosted by older children. In both, people with disabilities are interviewed and viewers learn a lot about these individuals along with interesting facts about daily living and assistive devices...
International Development Aid Turns to TV Melodramas to Promote Social Messages
After decades of publishing pamphlets, designing posters and broadcasting short public service announcements, some development communication specialists are turning to television melodramas or "soap operas" to promote important social and health messages...
"Million Mom March" Video: Blueprint for Social Organizing
Last year's "Million Mom March," organized in 75 locations on Mother's Day in the U.S. to build public support for stronger laws governing private gun use, was overwhelmingly successful by all accounts...
Superfest 2001 to Screen International Winners June 2 & 3 at La Pena Cultural Center, Berkeley
The 11 winners of the XXI Superfest International Media Festival on Disabilities will be screened on the afternoons of June 2 and 3 at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley, California...
Arts and Media briefly
South African "Search for a Star" Picks Blind Woman, "Devalued People" Photography Exhibit, U.K., Lisbon Film Festival on "The Mysterious Other", and more...
Children and Youth
Being Inclusive While Teaching English as a Second Language in Bangladesh
All around the world there are classes and textbooks where English (or any other language) is taught as a second language...
Mr. Rogers Hangs Up His Sweater & Turns Out the Lights
For more than 30 years, Fred Rogers has been producing and hosting television programs aimed at making all young children feel good about themselves and less fearful about dealing with life...
Children briefly
Wheelchairs for Children in Asia, Africa and Central America, Helping Children Who Are Blind, and UN Special Session on Children: the Drum Roll Builds
Governance and Legislation
Latin American Meeting in Chile Adopts Human Rights Plan
On March 18, 19 and 20, 2001, Santiago de Chile was a warm and friendly stage for a meeting of Latin American leaders with disabilities...
New Human Rights Forum for People with Disabilities Established in Costa Rica: Building Social Activism
Throughout history, as people with disabilities, we have had to deal with daily aspects of a socio-cultural ambiance that underestimates and overprotects us, discriminates against and marginalizes us...
Service Charter 'Disappointing'
New Zealand's national disability advocacy organisation has expressed disappointment with a new service charter launched by the country's largest government social service department...
Lebanese Parliament Adopts Comprehensive Legislation Concerning Disabled Persons
The Directory Law concerning People with Disabilities was adopted on May 9, 2000 by the Parliament of Lebanon during its general session...
Disabled Peruvians Protest, Celebrate
A public protest was organized in Lima in the summer of 2000 by the National Confederation of the Disabled of Peru (CONFENADIP)...
Human Rights Group Calls for U.S. Ban on Executions of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Human Rights Watch, a respected watchdog group, has called on the United States to ban the executions of persons with intellectual disabilities...
Independent Living
Guide Dogs: New Accessibility Challenges for Blind People in Brazil
Founded 19 years ago, the Association of Guide Dogs for the Blind in Sao Paulo works to reintegrate visually impaired people into the society as productive citizens through mobility using guide dogs...
Inter-American Training Seminar for Leaders with Disabilities
The InterAmerican Institute on Disability (IID), through its main and Andean offices organized the event within the framework of the Inter American Development Bank's and the Inter American Investment Corporation's Governor's Annual Assembly...
India: Independent Group Living for Women's Vocational Training
Independent Living is a western concept that has not achieved wide acceptance in developing countries due to its emphasis on individuality and self-sufficiency, and its lack of consideration of family and cultural norms...
Adventure Travel: Disabled Brazilians in Nepal
A group of physically disabled Brazilians traveled to Nepal, and did water rafting on a Class IV river, two days biking, and air ballooning at an altitude of 3500 meters...
International News and Views
Controversial Speech by British Activist: Have Disability Rights Gone Too Far?
Reprinted with permission of Colin Low, this presentation was made in early April to City University in London, and based on some lively exchanges on disability listservs, seems to have caused quite an uproar in the British disability community...
What Is a Culture Broker? Providing Culturally Competent Services to Foreign-Born Persons with Disabilities
Coping with the effects of a disability can be a challenge no matter where one is born. For a recent immigrant the challenge is often magnified...
InterAmerican Development Bank Opens Dialogue on Social & Economic Inclusion of People with Disabilities
On March 16 the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB) held a dialogue among political and community leaders, representatives of the private sector and the media, and specialists to raise awareness on the importance of adopting policies that include persons with disabilities in economic and social life...
Out of Mind, Out of Sight: Report on Confinement of Mentally Ill Prisoners in Ireland
This IPRT report reveals that mentally ill prisoners are put into solitary confinement (strip cells) as a substitute for appropriate treatment. But first, a few words on solitary confinement and strip cells...
On People with Physical, Sensory or Psychical Disabilities
Analysis should start from the title of this article itself as proposed in this paper. Not only as something that precedes and is proposed; but also in the sense that it opens a discussion, encouraging the pondering of words through their transit into existence and use...
International Conference Listings and Reports
» International Conferences 2001-2002
» Disability with Attitude: The Conference of the Double Decade
Over 250 people attended a two day conference on Disability with Attitude - critical issues twenty years after IYDP - at Parramatta, Sydney, Australia on February 16 and 17 2001...
» Call for Papers: Narratives of Disease, Disability, and Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Conference
» Summer Institute on Disability Policy, Research, Rehabilitation & Participation, July, Holland
The course will bring together the knowledge and experience of experts in the fields of modelling, theory building and policy making...
» International Conference on Augmentative and Alternative Communication Disability and Human Rights
People with disabilities, all over the world often have to speak about themselves, their joys and sorrows, hopes and frustrations in silent voices...
» Highlights from the Final Report of the 2000 Nordic Conference on Disability & Development
This report has been produced jointly by the Nordic Disabled Person Organisations, DPOs. It is a result of a process initiated in 1991, when these DPOs met at Hanaholmen, Finland and agreed to call on their respective governments to give increased attention to disability issues in development cooperation and to take joint action towards multilateral agencies to promote disability concerns...
» International "Inclusion by Design" Conferences Announces Plenary Speakers
Resources & Book Reviews
ICIDH Meets Postmodernism, or 'Incredulity toward Meta-Terminology'
After heroic linguistic labours by the World Health Organisation and collaborators during the past decade, the World Health Assembly in May 2001 will have a chance to nod its approval of the new version of ICIDH, the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps...
New Digital Book by Dr. María Ignacia Massone
A Proposal for an Analysis of a New and Fresh Sign Language. This book analyses conversation in Argentinean Sign Language (LSA) among deaf people...
Deafness and Blindness, Disability and Inclusion, in West African Tradition and Modernity: review of books and materials
A little-known storehouse of disability-related traditions and activities awaits detailed exploration across the countries of West Africa, from the 13th century onward...
New Pakistan Disability Magazine Invites Contributors
Monthly Pakistan Special is the only magazine in the history of Pakistan, which is being published by a group of journalists, for the welfare and betterment of over 10 million handicapped people of the country...
Some New Disability-Related Websites in Spanish and other Languages
Access-Able Travel Source Newsletter
Ireland Tour by Undiscovered Britain, Sath International Symposium, Elk Echo Ranch, and more...
Global Access Disabled Travel Network E-Zine
Kenya Adventures, Philadelphia Freedom, Canterbury, England, and more...
Mutinational Pilot Study on Work Incapacity: Who Returns to Work and Why?
Just published by the International Social Security Association (ISSA) is a new and unique comparative study on work incapacity and reintegration, called Who Returns to Work and Why?...
Women
New Australian Film Explores Life & Sexuality of Woman with Cerebral Palsy
Dance Me To My Song was written by and stars Heather Rose, an Australian actress and writer who has cerebral palsy...
Living Out Loud: Building Resiliency in Adolescent Girls with Disabilities
The Living Out Loud program was a five-year demonstration project serving female adolescents aged 14-21 with learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities...
Australian Human Rights Commission Sponsors Report on Sterilization of Disabled Girls & Young Women
A report titled The Sterilisation of Girls and Young Women: Issues and Progress, by researchers Susan Brady, John Briton and Sonia Grover, was released today...
Women briefly
Recent and Future Conference, No Room for Disabled Women at US Shelters, Letter from the Ukraine, and more...
Disability Buzz
International discussion of Human Rights reached a crescendo recently when the UN Commission on Human Rights voted the U.S. out of membership on this important body...
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