Alex,
Every group of people, perhaps even if it's just in cyber-space, no
matter how the founder(s) launch it... can take on "a life of it's
own"... a direction, or local-culture evolves....
This List was launched as "research", a very limited scope, that does
NOT seem to include a lot of disability-related topics:
disabled rights organising,
local practical "barrier removal" activism / advocacy,
liberation organising,
emerging PWD culture-building,
status of service programs and their changes / cutbacks,
dealing with individual "case" problems.. (lusting after the most
heavily-advertised movie stars)....
..... Every one of those topics could, and probably should, have it's
own separate List, somewhere...
Do you really want a One-Size-Fits-All "Disability Stuff List", to post
a remark about how half of the bus lifts in your city are broken.... and
get back no relevant replies, plus you'd get 4 replies that pick one
word out of your posting, in order to wrestle with it?
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Speaking of Cognitive stuff that you'd like to see more of... I am, in
recent months, investigating part of this area, in order to try to
develop environmental design approaches, to assisting a client with
brain injuries, in transition back to independent living. But this work
is "reality based", going direct from situational facts to design,
largely bypassing generalised & abstracted "theory".
This "cognitive disability" related project is really about everything
BUT words. Therefor, I have only mentioned it very breifly on this List
(an inquiry for help, which didn't attract any).... and I will not be
posting anything further about it, here. I don't think it's
"theoretical enough" for the more active members of this list. Too
practical.
But I'd be happy to discuss it, one to one, off list.
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