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Deborah Stienstra, Aileen Wight-Felske (Eds.)
Captus Press,
ISBN
978-1-55322-074-9
(2003)
The world often differs from the lessons taught about it in
university classrooms. History, and the conclusions drawn from it
typically shape the way society deals with the community at large.
Healthcare and social service professionals, for example, base their
approach to dealing with people with disabilities on a charity model of
care popularized in the 1950s. In order to challenge and offset mainstream society's notions of
them, it is important that people with disabilities play a role in
documenting, recording and analyzing their own history. Written by and
for Canadians with disabilities and their communities, Making
Equality: History of Advocacy and Persons with Disabilities in Canada
contests attitudes toward disabled people and their participation in
Canadian society. It presents as formal knowledge disabled peoples'
stories, observations and analyses in an effort to bridge the sizeable
knowledge gap faced by educators and professionals. Making Equality: History of Advocacy and Persons with
Disabilities in Canada is suitable as a resource in many fields of
study, and as a textbook for history, social science, disability
studies and nursing courses, as well as for any course that examines
the history of people with disabilities.
1 Introduction - Making Equality and History 2 Growth and Evolution of Disability Advocacy in Canada 3 "Listen, Really Listen, to Us" - Consultation, Disabled People and
Governments in Canada Our Story/Ourselves 4 Lieutenant John Counsell and the Development of Medical
Rehabilitation and Disability Policy in Canada 5 Deaf Education and Advocacy - A Short History of the Canadian
Association of the Deaf 6 We Will Ride - A Showcase of CCD Advocacy Strategies in Support of
Accessible Transportation 7 From Charity to Equality - Canadians with Disabilities Take Their
Rightful Place in Canada's Constitution 8 Development and Transformation of Advocacy in the Disability
Movement of Quebec 9 History Of Advocacy Organizations of the Blind In Canada - Two
Stories 10 People First - The History and the Dream 11 Steering Your Own Ship - The Growth of Individual Advocacy within
the Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres 12 An Early DAWNing 13 Stronger Together - Steps Toward a National Mental Health Network
14 Mothers of Intention 15 History of Accessibility in Canada from the Advocacy Perspective 16 Building Partnerships with International Advocacy Groups 17 History of Advocacy Tool Kit Appendices Bibliography Contributors
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