What is a DPO?

A disabled people’s organisation (DPO) is an organisation that has a membership and managing board with a majority of disabled people, and whose objectives are the rights and equality of disabled people.

Whose is really in Control? ('Nothing About Us, Without Us')

  DPO's Co-operative Alliance (which includes NeuroDiversity International) is doing the first online poll to ask Disabled People and allies of what percentage at management (board) and governance levels should Disabled People have control of management and decision making process within DPO's... This poll will hopefully give us all an idea of what DPO's management and decision making structures should look like, under 'Nothing About Us, Without Us'.

Thriving or Surviving

  Disability LIB,  Research report detailing the challenges and opportunities facing disabled people’s organisations. It shows DPOs are excluded from most mainstream voluntary sector capacity-building initiatives, due to barriers and a lack of understanding of the user-controlled disability sector. (Download - scroll down page) 

The Politics of Disability

03 NOV 2009,  Paul Brown, member of the SSP and Socialist Worker platform, examines why disability, and disability rights, must be taken seriously by socialists.

Towards a new future of “Whatever”...

The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis, NYTimes (needs login)

Thinking of Changing the World?

Time banks, co-operatives and LETS, the money system

Tim Hawkins Medication Side Effects (Very Funny)

Race and Sciences last taboo?..... So what about 'Disabilism' then?

C4: race and science
 The Event:- How Racist (Disabilist) are You? 

C4: The Event - how racist are you

Youtube: Jane Elliot's: A Class Divided  
So what about 'Disabilism' then?

Drugs adviser sacked for comments (on Cannabis)

BBC

LHA and its Impact on Disabled People

 Local Housing Allowance is the subject of an UK Select Committee inquiry. They want views by Nov. 16th. (DWP, Dept. of Work and Pensions)

UN disability body picks  Prof. McCallum as Chair

'Mix-It' lose NDI support...

DLA saved – for some

DaDa Fest 2009

DaDa Fest 2009, Liverpool

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap is an award-winning touring theatre company in the UK. We offer training, representation and support for actors with learning disabilities and fully accessible studios for hire.

How to protect yourself against swine flu

ARM UK: Autism Act 2009 is 'no great leap forward'

Autism Rights Movement, 22 OCT 2009

Media and Hate Crime: history of attitudes to disabled people

Moving image media continually draw on attitudes and representations of disabled people from the past, which have been fossilised in myths, literature, theatre, folklore, biography and history. Having a clear understanding of where thinking about disability has come from is important in order to see that underlying negative attitudes and stereotypes have been reinforced by society and religion over many centuries. 

Swine flu vaccine on US Navy ship: most catch it, two die

Mercury levels similar in kids with, without autism

Independent, 21 OCT 2009,  Univ. of California research.

Mentally ill Briton could be executed

Independent, 21 OCT 2009,  A mentally ill British man could be executed in China within days after losing his appeal against the death sentence.  The 53-year-old father of five had 4kg (8.8lb) of heroin in a suitcase.

Sit up straight! 

The Mail, 19 Oct 2009,  How good posture can boost your physical AND mental wellbeing. 

Dr Gregor Wolbring: Climate Change and Disability

Disability themed Photosymbols Examples

NHS mental health trusts should employ service users to promote recovery, charity urges

Psychminded, 14 SEP 2009

Hacker given more time to fight extradition

Independent, 17 OCT 2009

Creative Routes BonkersFest

LARM at BonkersFest 2008!!! (youtube)

BonkersFest/MADPRIDE

2007 artists (youtube) | MadPride 2008 (youtube)

Mental Health Visions, Tina Minkowitz, Lawyer (Youtube)

Life term for disabled man murder

Kevin Walsh died after a violent and prolonged attack by Andrew Blaine. A 25-year-old man has been jailed for life at Chester Crown Court for slashing the throat of his disabled friend and stealing his life savings.

STATEWATCH

Don't Write Me Off

NAS campaign on employment needs. Write to your MP (UK).

The company that turned 'disability' into an asset

Independent 12 OCT 2009, on a Danish IT company turning ASD into an asset.

Harry Williams, Autistic Rights Movement, responds to Autism Speaks and Hillary Clinton!

Video: Prevent and Cure Autism | Video: I Am Autism Speaks

MP's report says Adults with Autism 'cast-adrift'

BBC, 14 OCT 2009, Adults with autism do not get proper support, MPs say.  Adults with autism in England are often not being diagnosed or supported properly.

Bruno is frank about mental health and boxing fans should be too

Guardian, 9th Oct 2009, The former world heavyweight champion is helping Time To Change, a campaign that looks to alter attitudes to mental health.

Why we're too ready to call people autistic

The Mirror, 12 Oct 2009, Dr Miriam Stoppard: I'm concerned that more children are being labelled as autistic - and this trend is spreading to adults.

Making autism ‘normal’ won’t help my son

The Times, 12 Oct 2009, It may reduce the stigma but it trivialises the learning difficulties and isolation sufferers endure

Radio 4: Adults With Autism 

Chris paine 'on the buses' 
 
NAS residential retreat
 
 "Autism is in the genes..."

Disabled Peoples' International:- 'Violence Overview'

Hacker refused extradition appeal

BBC, 9 OCT 2009, McKinnon refused appeal to UK Supreme Court

Asperger's and UK Supreme Court

AboutAsperger.blogspot.com

GEO denies access to Disabled People's Movement to resignation letters... What are they hiding?

10 Autism Controversies

Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership In Research and Education (AASPIRE)

Top doctor's autism bill concerns

BBC, 2 OCT 2009

Doctors 'forced' to allow suicide

BBC, 1 OCT 2009

Rethinking Autism

"Let's change the conversation one video at a time."

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NDI is a Social Enterprise

A social enterprise is a broad idea. For us at NDI it means looking at our particular goals, for example, inclusion and real mental health, goals that we want to achieve and then developing a variety of income streams to help us achieve them. We hope you can join us and support us.

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NDI is seeking Directors

Neuro-Diversity International and Neuro Diversity International UK, (NDI and NDI UK), are in search of Directors.

If you are neurodiverse, interested in helping progress this work and raising awareness, then apply in the first instance to 

Colin Revell, colrev@hotmail.com

Adrian Whyatt, adrianwhyatt@gmail.com  

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