Thanks for this interesting example of cross-disability advocacy, I didn't
know about this organization.
regards,
Kate
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I became obligated to do cross-disability organizing when I helped develop
the telephone access program for people with speech disabilities called
Speech-to-Speech (STS). See website below. People who can use this service
have CP, ALS, Parkinson's etc. Only a portion of people with each of these
disabilities can use STS. Your speech has to be impaired enough to require
an experienced listener with good language processing skills to be
understood, but it must be clear enough to be deciphered by the
Communications Assistant (CA) who helps connect telephone calls for the
consumer. It is extremely difficult to identify potential STS users within
the disability groups. Once identified, potential users are rarely able to
motivate their group to advocate for STS mainly because people with speech
disabilities make up such a small proportion of group members that they
have little political power. In addition, speech disability itself is an
obstacle to success advocacy. I would like to hear from others with
cross-disability advocacy challenges.
Bob
Bob Segalman, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Hon), President
Speech Communications Assistance By Telephone, Inc. (SCT)
Call 1-888-877-5302 and then ask for me at 916-448-5517
website: www.speechtospeech.com
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1. shift to "cross-disability" organizing (4)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 18:04:27 -0700
From: Sharon Barnartt <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: shift to "cross-disability" organizing
Richard Scotch and I, in our book Disability Protests, discuss this issue in
the American context at some length. It is not as clear cut as you make it
seem--for one thing, organizations such as ADAPT do not fit neatly into the
category of cross-disability organizations. Rather, they, and a number of
other organizations such as NDY, are single issue, multiple disability
organizations. I hope you will look at our book or other sources in order
to make a more nuanced and more empirically correct argument.
Sharon Barnartt
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