Becoming Self-Advocates

People with intellectual disability cannot assume that they can speak up for and represent themselves. A host of socially-constructed factors act as barriers to their becoming self-advocates. This book analyses the nature of these factors and investigates how the label 'intellectual disability' is understood and interpreted.

Autorentext

Anne-Marie Callus is the Executive Director of the National Commission Persons with Disability in Malta. She is actively involved in a self-advocacy group and the promotion and development of self-advocacy in Malta.

Inhalt

Contents: Labels and definitions Self-advocacy - Histories and contexts Living circumscribed lives Constructing the label intellectual disability Helping people lead independent lives Principal forces in the lives of people with intellectual disability Places in self-advocacy Becoming self-advocates.