Words reflect social and self concepts.
Our disabilities are only one aspect of our selves, and become an instrument of social oppression when they are used by other people to separate us from the rest of society. We hope that this index will be an efficient way to learn specific terms, which have specific meanings in the Independent Living Movement, and thereby also provide more context to understand Independent Living and Disability Rights. Independent Living Paratransit People First Personal Assistance Services Sec. Local members met with Estelle Richman, Philadelphia Health Commissioner in the fall of 1995.This resulted in the creation of a task force to look at homemaking services for people with disabilities, treatment of people with disabilities in hospitals and nursing homes and other ways to maintain people's independence. Task Force participants will be university hospitals, consumers with disabilities and the Philadelphia Mayor's Commission on People with Disabilities and Philadelphia Health Department staff.