self-advocacy
Sign in to saveSelf-advocacy is the act of speaking up for oneself and one's interests. It is used as a name for civil rights movements and mutual aid networks for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The term arose in the broader civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and is part of the disability rights movement. Today, there are self-advocacy organizations across the world.
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Vinony's link graph records 97 inbound references to self-advocacy, and connects out to neurodiversity, people-first language and Autism Network International.
Vinony files it under Developmental disabilities, Disability rights and Medical sociology.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- disability rights movement
- Subclass of
- disability rights movement
- Part of
- independent living
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- WikiProject Human rights
- used by
- person with disabilities
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Founding of the movement
- Self-advocacy and institutions
- Neurodiversity
- Values and goals
- Person first
- Self-determination
- Community living
- Equal employment and education
- K–12 education
- Civil rights
- Relationship to other movements
- References
- Further reading
Self-advocacy is the act of speaking up for oneself and one's interests. It is used as a name for civil rights movements and mutual aid networks for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The term arose in the broader civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and is part of the disability rights movement. Today, there are self-advocacy organizations across the world.
== History ==
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