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Title: Becoming self-advocates : people with intellectual disability seeking a voice
Authors: Callus, Anne-Marie
Keywords: People with mental disabilities
People with mental disabilities -- Social conditions
Well-being
Mental health
Intellectual disability
Issue Date: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang
Citation: Callus, A. M. (2013). Becoming self-advocates : people with intellectual disability seeking a voice. Oxford : Peter Lang
Abstract: 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 selfadvocates.This book analyses the nature ofthese factors and investigates how the label ‘intellectual disability’ is understood and interpreted. It also analyses the powerimbalance between people with intellectual disability and non-disabled people, an imbalance which leads to the perpetuation of dependence of the former on the latter.The book proposes self-advocacy as a way of providing an environment in which this power imbalance can be redressed, negative perceptions ofthe label ‘intellectual disability’ challenged, and independence and autonomy promoted. In this way, contexts can be created in which the voices of people with intellectual disability are heard and valued. Self-advocacy thus enables people with intellectual disability to become more active agents in their own lives with the necessary support.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/99231
ISBN: 9783034309066
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