New Voices
Self Advocacy By People With Disabilities
by Gunnar Dybwad & Hank Bersani
June 1998
ISBN 1-57129-004-4 $29.95
Self-advocacy by persons with developmental disabilities was unthinkable
three decades ago. Then, in western Canada and in the northwestern
United States people with disabilities began to speak out for themselves. They are organizing themselves to seek better, non-instutional living situations, social and political equality, and decent jobs with reasonable pay.
This collection of original papers, many by self-advocacy movements
across the Western world examine the current status of self-advocacy
activities by people with developmental disabilites in each of the
countries.
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