>Has the disability movement sufficiently taken on board the needs of
>people with cognitive impairments? I think not.
At a self-advocacy network meeting last year, a woman with an
intellectual disability said:
"People always talk about ramps into buildings. What about ramps into
minds? We need ramps into minds."
A wonderful quote about the access needs of those of us with cognitive
disabilities.
>I think that some of
>the issues which the disability movement has raised - such as access,
>or reproductive rights, can be extended to more fully incorporate the
>needs of brain injury survivors - like, how to make a building more
>easily readable to someone with a cognitive impairment, or fighting
>the sterilisation of women with intellectual disabilities and brain
>injuries. But extending the debates to include issues which are
>important to us requies poltiical will and insight - which many are
>lacking.
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