Becoming Self-Advocates: People with intellectual Disability seeking a Voice

by Anne-Marie Callus

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034309066
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	04/04/2013
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.