Cross Disability

From the Mental Health Movement to the Disability Movement – In Conversation with Yeni Rosa Damayanti

LRecently, TCI Asia Pacific spoke with Yeni Rosa Damayanti, Chairperson of the Indonesian Mental Health Association, about her experience with international, regional and national advocacy in human rights for persons with disabilities, the ideologies she aligns herself with and where she sees and hopes to see persons with psychosocial disabilities in the future.  Yeni has […]

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Cross-Disability Perspective to the #WhatWENeed Campaign

Author: Shivani Gupta Cross-disability perspective to the WhatWeNeed campaign by Shivani Gupta I am a person with a disability working as a cross-disability advocate and am also pursuing a PhD around support structures available to persons with high support needs living in rural communities in India. With very limited knowledge of psychosocial disabilities, I was

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A Cross Disability Understanding of the Effects of Stigma and Social Factors on Health Outcomes

Reblog from Mad in America Sadie Cathcart recently wrote on Mad in America about a new study on autism by Monique Botha and David M. Frost from the University of Surrey.  Botha and Frost write “The minority model of disability is underpinned by the notion that one can have a condition the medical model considers a disability, but

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