Niepełnosprawny jako self-adwokat działający w imieniu i na rzecz innych niepełnosprawnych
DISABLED AS A SELF-ADVOCATE ACTING FOR AND ON BEHALF OF OTHER DISABLED

Author(s): Elżbieta Zakrzewska-Manterys
Subject(s): Social development, Family and social welfare
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: self-advocacy; disability; mental handicap; empowerment; emancipation
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problem of self-advocacy treated as an activity serving in behalf of disabled persons’ empowerment and emancipation. But the base of this activity is ability to independent decision making and reflective thinking, to which people with mental handicap are, more or less, incapable. The thesis of the paper is then the statement that self-advocacy should be applied to disabled, but fully intellectually capable, persons. The actions undertaken by mentally handicapped self-advocates towards persons from their social environment are apparent and lead to development of facade knowledge about their abilities in social life.

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