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Disabled Leaders Gayle Lilliana Blakely

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As a student leader at Loyola University Chicago, and as an advocate for disabled persons, I presented this presentation at a student-run symposium, where I highlighted successful disabled leaders of yesterday and encouraged other students to advocate for more disabled leaders.

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Disabled Leaders

Disabled LeadersGayle Lilliana Blakely

Disability DiversityDefinition of disabledDifferent types of disabilityStats Disability Definitionhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disability: a condition (such as an illness or an injury) that damages or limits a person's physical or mental abilities: the condition of being unable to do things in the normal way : the condition of being disabled: a program that provides financial support to a disabled persondisabled adjective:: having a physical or mental disability : unable to perform one or more natural activities (such as walking or seeing) because of illness, injury, etc.

Disabled/Disability DefinedWHO/via UN: Impairment:Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physiological, or anatomical structure or function.Disability:Any restriction or lack {resulting from an impairment) of ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.Handicap:A disadvantage for a given individual, resulting from an impairment or disability, that, limits or prevents the fulfillment of a role that is normal, depending on age, sex, social and cultural factors, for that individual.2

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4Hill Country Disabled Group (HCDG):Disability DefinitionA disability is often used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment, mental illness, and various types of chronic diseases.

Disability DiversityTwo types of disability:Visible Disabilities Invisible Disabilities Visible DisabilitiesPhysical handicaps Amputations Cancer (loss of hair, body)Those in wheelchairsPhysical disabilitiesElderly Down SyndromeMental RetardationInvisible DisabilitiesLearning DisabilitiesMental/Emotional DisabilitiesIntellectual DisabilitiesDrug/Alcohol Addictions CancerAIDSProsthetics http://www.shrm.org/TemplatesTools/hrqa/Pages/ADAdrugsandalcohol.aspx

8Disability Prevalence> 1 billion (>15%) worldwide (UNESCO, WHO)WHO: World Health OrganizationWorld Report on DisabilityThe first everWorld report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Banksuggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability.People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is largely due to the lack of services available to them and the many obstacles they face in their everyday lives.http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/inclusive-education/people-with-disabilities/

9CDC Stats

CDC Stats

CDC Stats

CDC StatsReports of fair or poor health among adults with a disability by race and ethnicity were:Hispanic, 55.2%American Indian or Alaska Native, 50.5%Non-Hispanic Black or African American, 46.6%Non-Hispanic White, 36.9%Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, 36.5%Asian, 24.9%

CDC Stats Illinois 201122% adults with documented disability*18-44 y/o: 13.3%45-64 y/o: 27.2%65+ y/o: 40%Men: 20.1%Women: 23.8%Veterans: 27.2%Non-veterans: 21.8%* http://dhds.cdc.gov/profiles/profile?profileId=19&geoTypeId=1&geoIds=17#jumpToTop

14Why is disability awareness important for all people?Anyone can become disabled at any time!AccidentsDisease CancerAgingAbuseAtrocities Can you think of any others?Huffington Post: 10 Things The World Can Learn From People With Disabilities1. True happiness is possible in a broken body2. Patience can get you through almost anything3. Accidents can and will happen4. Disability can happen to anyone5. Dont sweat the little things6. Being different is an opportunity7. Fitting in is overrated8. You cant judge a person by their looks9. Life is short. Embrace everything. 10. Weakness isnt always a negativehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/tiffiny-carlson/lessonspeople-with-disabilities-_b_4577337.htmlTiffiny Carlson is a writer and quadriplegic from Minneapolis and she has a C6 spinal cord injury from a diving accident when she was 14. Human LimitationsEveryone has themPhysicalIntellectualEmotionalSpecial Quote for EqualityIf you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Disabled People are Abled Leaders!What is leadership/a leader? definition Knowing human limitations is importantRegardless if youre disabled or notWe all have limitationsUnderstanding disability as part of human diversity Equal opportunity for all!Differently Abled Leadershiphttp://www.merriam-webster.com: a position as a leader of a group, organization, etc.: the time when a person holds the position of leader: the power or ability to lead other people

Leaderhttp://www.merriam-webster.comranks firstguide, conductora person who has commanding authority or influencea party member chosen to manage party activities in a legislative body such a party member presiding over the whole legislative body when the party constitutes a majorityconductor a first or principal performer of a groupNEADS(National Education for Assistance Dog Services)It is important that persons from the disability community become leaders.Leaders must also advocate for the empowerment, rights, and privileges of persons with disabilities.Existing leaders and advocates are role models for other persons with disabilities.NEADS Leadership Def.A leader is an individual who guides other people or organizations in a certain direction or on a charted course. A leader directs the operations or activities of a group of people.

NEADS Leadership TraitsResponsiblestrong-willedstrong-minded personwilling to compromise, negotiategood interpersonal and human relation skills Persuade, consensus-buildersrally for causes well informed about issues that impact on them and their constituents. Servant Leadership: working in the trenches Motivatorsconcerned about the welfare of comradescommunicateLeadership 6 effective traitsDriveMotivationHonesty and IntegritySelf-confidenceCognitive ability*Leaders are intelligent, perceptive, and conceptually skilled, but are not necessarily geniuses. They show analytical ability, good judgment, and the capacity to think strategicallyBusiness knowledge

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26Leadership 3 skills Have a sense of missionBe responsibleEarn/keep trust of others

Leadership 6 stylesAutocratic Leader makes all decisionsParticipativeLeader consults subordinates/teamLaissez-faireTeam functions independently MotivationInfluencing, encouraging, rewards, praiseDecision makingLeader decides degree of decision authority of subordinates/teamTask and employee orientationMost effective way to get work done; use better methods; collaborate with teamNEW LABOR LAW 2014U.S. Dept. of LaborSection 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973effective on March 24, 2014affirmative action7% of federal contractors to hire people with disabilities (ABC7 Eyewitness News)compliance with the ADA Amendments Act of 2008

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?id=9343926http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/section503.htm29U.S. Dept. of StateThe Disabilities Treaty: Opening the World to Americans with DisabilitiesRatification of the Disabilities Treaty will:Open the world for the millions of disabled Americans wanting to serve, study, work, and travel abroadPromote American businesses, andReinforce American leadership on disabilities rightsOver 130 countries have joined the Disabilities Treatyhttp://www.state.gov/j/drl/sadr/disabilitiestreaty/index.htm30U.S. Dept. of State"This is about projecting U.S. leadership. It's about helping our veterans, promoting our values and our companies. This treaty doesn't change America. It's about America changing the world.- Secretary of State John KerryPositive NewsGood NEWS: Disabled LeadersPositive News ArticlesHighlighting Disabled Leaders and InsightsThe New York TimesBOOKS OF THE TIMES: What Befits a Leader in Hard Times? An Intimate Knowledge of Insanity Aug. 20, 2011Dr. Nassir Ghaemis book about leadership and mental illness The best crisis leaders are either mentally ill or mentally abnormal; the worst crisis leaders are mentally healthy.Dr. Ghaemi: director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston

New ScientistWere the best world leaders mentally ill?July 29, 2011Dr. Nassir Ghaemis book continuedpositive side of mental illnessargues that the best leaders during troubled times are those with mood disorders, since their illness enhances the very qualities that crisis management demandsleaders who are successful in peacetime are often failures in war, and vice versaWinston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Sonia Gandhi and even George W. Bush were influential at crucial times because they worked hard to be seen to be acting in the collective interests of the groups they representedNew Scientist, ContinuedWhile JFK's success is put down to his use of steroids and amphetamines, which may have made him manic, Hitler was a failure because his abuse of methamphetamine made him too manic.Richard Nixon - generally considered successful, but also paranoid and depressive for much of his peacetime presidency - is re-diagnosed as mentally healthy and therefore ill-equipped to deal with a crisis such as Watergate.Churchill's depression was even related to his realistic assessment of Nazism, let alone "key" to it.NPRDr. Nassir Ghaemis book continuedstudying the lives and medical records of many great leaders, and found that quite a few from Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King Jr. had some form of mental illness.these symptoms not only were present in their lives, but were relevant to their leadership.""Creativity and resilience is higher in people with mania and realism and empathy is higher in people with depression compared to normal subjects," he says. "The problem often with mentally healthy, average leaders is even though they're not weak in the sense of not having any of these qualities they often don't have enough to meet the very high demands of crises.The struggle with mental health that some people endure can take a toll, but some leaders and Ghaemi's book counts the 35th president among them emerge from that struggle more sure of themselves

NPR, ContinuedGhaemi explains that one of the reasons mentally healthy people might actually have a disadvantage when trying to navigate a crisis is that most of the time, the average person has what psychologists call a mild positive illusion."We think that we're slightly more intelligent, slightly better looking, than we really are," Ghaemi says. "We tend to overestimate our control over our environment.NPR Continued: MLK & GandhiGhaemi says both Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi attempted suicide as children.both King and Mohandas Gandhi tried to kill themselves during adolescence, and that both suffered severe bouts of depression later in lifeNPR Continued: Kennedy"In the case of Kennedy, I extensively describe his treatment with steroids, which worsened his manic symptoms. He was even treated with a neuroleptic, an anti-psychotic, when he was in the White House, for a period of depression," Ghaemi says.As those drugs made his hyperthamic symptoms worse, he was a less successful as a leader.Then his doctors got it under control," he says. a lot of his policies changed remarkably and he became that major civil rights advocate, that very resilient Cold War leader who we now look back on and value very much."

NPR ContinuedIf holding out hope that a president of the United States has at least a little bit of mental illness seems strange, Ghaemi says, he hopes his book helps to correct "a deep prejudice in our society.""Many of us just believe that mental illness is inherently bad and mental health is inherently good," he says. "And the message from both the science and the history that I'm discussing here is that there's some good and some bad to both mental illness and mental health.I think the idea of a 'No Drama Obama,' of this very average, stable, healthy person, is a reflection ... of that stigma, of the idea that if there's any mental abnormality, it must be harmful. And in fact, if he has a little bit of drama to him, it might be quite helpful."

The Wall Street JournalDr. Nassir Ghaemis book continuedDepression in Command: In times of crisis, mentally ill leaders can see what others dont,Inverse Law of SanityGreat Crisis LeadersAristotle: First to point out the link between madness and genius

WSJ Continued: Crisis LeadersNot like normal peopleNot like mentally healthy leadersWhen traditional approaches begin to fail, however, great crisis leaders see new opportunities. When old questions are unanswerable and new questions unrecognized, they create new solutions. realistic enough to see painful truthsTheir weakness is the secret of their strength

WSJ Continued: Winston ChurchillDuring his severely depressed years in the political wilderness, he saw the Nazi menace long before others didThe Prime Minister Baldwin and his second-in-command, Chamberlain, rejected his proposal to increase military spendingWhen Chamberlain returned from signing the Munich agreement with Hitler in 1938, only Churchill and a small coterie refused to stand and cheer in parliament, eliciting boos and hisses from other honorable membersChurchill saw the events of his day with a clarity and realism lacking in saner, more stable men Rose to prominence during the Boer War and WWIHis own party rejected himTemperament: temperamental, cranky, talkative, bombasticManiaSevere depressive episodes: Suicidal

WSJ Continued: Abraham Lincolnrealism bordering on political ruthlessness was central to his success as a war leader: was not a consistent abolitionistalways opposed slavery: but until 1863 he also opposed abolishing [slavery]The above is why he was the compromise Republican candidate in 1860preferred a containment strategywanted to prevent slaverys expansion to the West, after which, he believed, it would die out gradually When Civil War came, Lincoln showed himself to be flexible and pragmatic as a strategist, willing to admit error and to change generals as the situation demandednot the stereotypical decisive executive, picking a course of action and sticking with itadapted to a changing realityMental Illness History:Many depressive episodesOnce needed a suicide watchTreated for melancholy

Famous Disabled LeadersRobert B. OxnamMultiple Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorderpresidentof the Asia Society from 1981 to 1992 Served on the Asia policy advisory team for the Obamapresidentialcampaign

Gayle Lilliana BlakelyTestimony of struggle withPTSDMajor DepressionDissociative Identity Disorder10 years disabledTrying to self-rehabilitate through higher eduBecame leader in many organizations*Famous Disabled LeadersFranklin Delano RooseveltPoliogovernor of New York State 32nd President of the United States Only U.S. president to have served more than two terms of officepermanent paralysis from the waist downsought out innumerable cures including electric currents, ultraviolet light, massage, mineral baths - whatever might improve his atrophied legs

More Famous Disabled LeadersPolitical/Government LeadersActivism/Advocacy LeadersEducational/Academic LeadersCareer-based LeadersSports LeadersOther Leader TypesFamous Disabled LeadersChanda Gunn American ice hockey playerWon a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympicstemporal lobe epilepsy

Famous Disabled LeadersDj Hapa Diagnosed with epilepsy at age 17initially told he would not be able to attend college due to his conditionattended UCLA on a Regents scholarship today is the executive director of the Scratch DJ Academy

Famous Disabled LeadersAlbert Einstein dyslexia Couldnt remember the months in the year, but he could solve complicated math formulas

Famous Disabled LeadersDale S. Brown strategic leadership consultant, Washington D.C.Book: Steps to Independence for people with Learning DisabilitiescoauthoredJob-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped or People who have Disabilitieswith Richard Nelson Bolleswritten hundreds of articles, includingDaring to Dream; Finding your purposeEmpowerment Through Peer Counselingdyslexia

http://www.icdri.org/DSB.htmhttp://www.ldaamerica.org/features/personal_profiles/brown.asp53Famous Disabled LeadersHenry Franklin Winkler Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, director, producer and authorrole as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on Happy Days attended the McBurney School and received his bachelor's degree from Emerson College in 1967 Received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1970In 1978, Emerson gave Winkler an honorary doctorate of humane lettersAlso received a Doctor of Humane Letters from Austin Collegedyslexia

Famous Disabled LeadersThomas Alva Edison American inventor of Dutch origin phonograph and a long lasting light bulbcause of Edison's deafness has been attributed to a bout of scarlet fever during childhood and recurring untreated middle ear infectionsDyslexiaFamous Disabled LeadersTom Cruise Thomas Cruise Mapother IV American actor and film producersuffered from abuse as a childDyslexiavictim of bullying at school

Famous Disabled LeadersWalt Disney Walter Elias Disney American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropistDyslexia

Famous Disabled LeadersWhoopi Goldberg American actress, comedian, radio host, TV personality, game show host, and authorborn Caryn Elaine Johnson in New York Citydyslexia

Famous Disabled LeadersWinston Churchill British politician Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955described himself as having a speech impediment

Famous Disabled LeadersThomas Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States. Did not learn to read until age 12May have had dyslexia or A.D.D.

Famous Disabled LeadersGeorge Smith Patton leading U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, 1943-1945Didnt begin formal education until age 11May have had dyslexiaVirginia Military InstituteWest Point

Famous Disabled LeadersRichard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson English entrepreneurVirgin brand of over 360 companiesDyslexiacaptain of football, rugby union and cricket teams

Famous Disabled LeadersWilliam Bruce Jenner U.S. track athleteWon the decathlon in the 1976 Summer Olympicsbroke the world record by scoring 8,634 points in the decathlon at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal grew up terrified of reading due to dyslexiaappeared on the sitcom Silver Spoons

Famous Disabled LeadersS.F. Tomajczyk columnist, correspondent, magazine editor, and book author"Dyslexia and driving limitations have both impacted my writing career. When I was six-years-old, I was hit on the back of the head while playing outdoors. It made me stutter and gave me dyslexia. The stuttering is long gone thanks to speech therapy, but the dyslexia arises from time-to-time. It can be humorous, though. I have a knack for switching words and letters without realizing it. For example, washing machine can become mashing wachine. (www.tomajczyk.com/disc.htm)

Famous Disabled LeadersJay Leno James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno American stand-up comedian and television hostNBC's The Tonight Show with Jay LenoAug. 1, 2007: interview with CNN journalist Anderson Cooper on The Tonight Show; Leno confirmed that he is dyslexicHis high school guidance counselor recommended that he drop out of high school; he graduatedReceived a bachelor's degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, in 1973Also attended Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts

Famous Disabled LeadersTom Smothers Thomas Bolin "Tom" Smothers, III American comedian, composer and musician from New YorkThe Smothers Brothers was portrayed as the "dumb oneDyslexia

Famous Disabled LeadersCharles Schwab Charles Robert Schwab, Jr. founder and CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporationdyslexia The Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation started a Web site called SparkTop.org to help children who have dyslexia and learning disabilities

Famous Disabled LeadersAlexander Graham Bell inventor of the telephone dyslexia one of the founders of the National Geographic society

Famous Disabled LeadersEdward M. Hallowell psychiatrist specializing in ADD/ADHD also has ADHDco-author of the book Delivered From Distractioncreated The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health in Sudbury, MAalumni of Harvard and is also on the faculty of Harvard Medical School since 1983"At the end of first grade, I was still a poor reader, and, to this day, I'm painfully slow at getting through a book...I have a dyslexic brain, a disordered brain, call it what you will. My brain got me through Harvard as an English major and a pre-med minor. I graduated magna cum laude and went on to medical school, residency, and fellowship...

Famous Disabled LeadersNolan Ryan Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. pitcher in Major League Baseball holds many major league pitching recordsNew York Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers, from 1966 to 1993Ryan is the all-time leader in no-hitters with seven, three more than any other pitchertied with Bob Feller for the most one-hitters, with 12also pitched 18 two-hitters

Famous Disabled LeadersStephen Joseph CannellAmerican television producer, writer, novelist, and occasional actordyslexia Graduated from the University of Oregon in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in journalismAt UO, he joined the Sigma Chi fraternitysupporting role as "Dutch" Dixon on his series, Renegade.

Famous Disabled LeadersPaul J. Orfalea Nicked "Kinko" because of his curly red hairfounded Kinko's in 1970 near the University of California at Santa Barbara with a simple idea: provide college students with products and services they need at a competitive priceCoworkers helped him with written correspondence.dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHDKinko's is now the world's leading business services chain

Famous Disabled LeadersJohn "Jack" R. Horner American paleontologist who discovered and named the Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their youngserved as the technical advisor for all of the Jurassic Park filmsdiscovered the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos Montana State University Regents' Professor of Paleontologydyslexia Worked at Princeton and found a diagnostic center, where his dyslexia was formally diagnosed"I wasn't diagnosed until well after I had reached adulthood, had struggled through school being considered lazy, dumb, and perhaps even retarded, and had flunked out of college seven times."

Famous Disabled LeadersPaul Mark Oakenfold English record producer and trance DJMusic career began in the late 1970s, when he started playing soul in a Covent Garden wine bardyslexia

Famous Disabled LeadersJohn Melendez American radio and television personalitystuttering problem

Famous Disabled LeadersCharles Darwin Assumed OCD and stutterDarwin stated that his health problems began as early as 1825 around age 16The exact nature of Darwin's illness or illnesses remain mysterious at this time.

Famous Disabled LeadersSir Isaac Newton scientist Founded the Three Laws of Motion and Universal GravitationField of mechanicsOnce asked that the windows of Parliament be closed so the public wouldn't hear his stuttering

Famous Disabled LeadersAlbert EinsteinMathematician/Physicist learning disability did not speak until age 3

Famous Disabled LeadersStephen HawkingsWorld famous Physicist/mathematician considered the greatest scientist of the twentieth century, after EinsteinBig Bang Theory Black Hole Theory Today: nearly paralyzedTeaches through a computer supported a machine

Famous Disabled LeadersHelen KellerBlind, Deaf, and Mute

Famous Disabled LeadersLord NelsonViscount Horatio Nelson Britain's greatest naval herodisabled seaman for nearly ten yearshis naval career and his major victories were won as a disabled personThe enemy shot debris into his face; went blind in right eyeshattered right elbow during combat; later amputated Battle of the Nile Battle of Trafalgar He didn't say "I see no shipsHe said, during the Battle of Copenhagen, "... I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes" and, raising his telescope to his blind eye, "I really do not see the signal".

Famous Disabled LeadersThomas EdisonInventor (light bulb, phonograph, telegraph sys.)Businessman thought to have a learning disability could not read until age 12Became deaf from getting to close to a train car

Resources for the DisabledLoyola Resources for DisabilitySSWD: Services for Students with Disabilities Wellness Center

Universities in ChicagoUchiago: Mental Health SummitUICs Department of Disability and Human Development: Self-Advocacyhttp://mentalhealthsummit.uchicago.edu/

85Chicago-Based AdvocatesFamily Resource Center on Disabilities Council for Disability RightsChicago Hearing SocietyChicago Association of Citizens with Learning Disabilities (ACLD) (North/South)Center for Disability and Elder LawAlliance for Mentally Ill Greater Chicago Advocates United Advocacy Services Health and Disability Advocates Heartland Alliance Ounce of PreventionSergeant Shriver National Center on Poverty LawICIRR: Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee RightsCitizen Action/IllinoisChicago Coalition for the Homelesshttp://www.chicagohomeless.org/

86Illinois Advocates for DisabilityEquip for EqualityIllinois Legal Advocate LAF: Legal Assistance Foundation of ChicagoIllinois Department of Human Services (DHS)Illinois Office of Rehabilitation Services (ORS)Illinois Department of Public Health (DPH)Illinois Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities (DMH/DD)Illinois Advocates for Deaf-BlindCommunity Behavioral Healthcare Association of IllinoisThe Arc of IllinoisAARP Illinois Illinois Equal Justice Foundationhttp://www.equipforequality.org/http://www.illinoislegaladvocate.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_content&contentID=409http://www.ahs.uic.edu/dhd/selfadvocates-family-professional/advocacy/http://www.lafchicago.org/http://www.hdadvocates.orghttp://www.heartlandalliance.org/takeaction/alerts/http://www.ounceofprevention.org/advocacy/archive.phphttp://www.povertylaw.org/http://il.nami.org/http://www.equipforequality.org/http://icirr.org/www.citizenaction-il.orghttp://www.thearcofil.org/http://www.aarp.org/states/il/http://iejf.org/

87National Disability AdvocatesHealth & Disability AdvocatesNational Consortium for Health Systems DevelopmentMMW: Make Medicare Work CoalitionEquip for Equality, Inc.National Business & Disability Council (The Viscardi Center New York)NEADS: National Educational Association of Disabled StudentsDPI: Disabled Peoples International http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/inclusive-education/people-with-disabilities/http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/enhttp://www.unicef.org/http://www.wid.org/http://www.diversityworld.com/http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=23http://www.wapd.org/chapters/page.php?cid=25http://www.disabled-world.com/http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/en/index.html?utm_content=buffer46294&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

88World Disability AdvocatesUN (enable)UNESCOUNICEFMIUSA: Mobility International USAWILD: Womens Institute on Leadership and DisabilityDiversity WorldWAPD: World Associations of Persons with DisabilitiesDisabled WorldWHO: World Health Organization

http://www.miusa.org/exchange/currentprogs/wildhttp://invisibledisabilities.org/about/

89FORBES: MIUSA Women Leaders with DisabilitiesMIUSA has trained over 176 women leaders with disabilities from over 80 countriesMIUSA will publish the Brilliant & Resilient Photography Book, cataloguing portraits and personal stories of 50 disabled women leaders from 41 countries

UN.org: WPAWorld Programme of Action (WPA) Amajor outcome of the International Year of Disabled Persons was the formulation of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons, adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 1982, by its resolution 37/521.The World Programme of Action (WPA) is a global strategy to enhance disability prevention, rehabilitation and equalization of opportunities, which pertains to full participation of persons with disabilities in social life and national development. The WPA also emphasizes the need to approach disability from a human rights perspective.

UNESCOUNESCO supports various international Human Rights Treaties and Conventions that uphold the right to education of all persons, including Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1946), the Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), and Article 24 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006).

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/inclusive-education/people-with-disabilities/

92Remember December 3International Day of Persons with Disabilities - 3 DecemberUNESCO: UN EnableInternational Day of Persons with Disabilities provides an opportunity to further raise awareness of disability and accessibility as a cross cutting development issue and further the global efforts to promote accessibility, remove all types of barriers, and to realize the equal participation of persons with disabilities in society and shape the future of development for all!http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/prizes-and-celebrations/celebrations/international-day-of-persons-with-disabilities/

93UNs 3 Steps of Disability Advocacy:(1) Prevention(2) Rehabilitation(3) Equalization of Opportunities

LEADERSHIP!DISABLED LEADERS!http://www.un.org/disabilities/default.asp?id=2394NEADS Get Involved!local campus activities Volunteer Attend open sessions of Senate and Board of Governors. Participate, to the extent possible, in the administrative process at the campus level and in local, provincial, and national issues as well. For example, get involved in consultations about funding programs for students with disabilities;Lobby local, provincial, and national governmental bodies and officials to introduce and promote the passage of legislation that will be beneficial to persons with disabilities;Join local disability groups in your community and actively participate in them Seek appointments to serve on campus, local, provincial or national governmental boards and councils Seek elected office if you desire to do so and write letters to editors of newspapers, magazines, and television and radio stations concerning issues relating to persons with disabilities.Will You Be A ResourceFor the Disabled?Awareness (Prevention, Preparedness, Acceptance, Unity, Peace)Advocacy (Equal Opportunity, Discrimination Prevention, Conflict Resolution)Leadership (Training, Understanding Limitations)Scholarship (Academic Research)Service (Service Learning, Civic Engagement, Philanthropy)Fellowship (Activities and Events)Questions/Comments