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National Agenda for Disability Rights
Preamble:
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s supporters of the National Agenda for Disability Rights, we affirm the following propositionsand principles:
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e assert that unintended barriers and intentional exclusion, deep seated prejudice andwidespread institutionalized discrimination shut people with disabilities out of society andimpoverish our lives.
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e declare that these exclusionary practices restrict us far more than any medical,physiological or psychological condition or difference.
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e call on our society to rectify this historic pattern of injustice by enforcing legal protectionsagainst disability-based discrimination and ensuring our right of equal access.
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e affirm that the devices, services, and accommodations we require are not means of caringfor those who are fundamentally dependent, but are alternative modes of functioning.
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e assert our right to these modes as the means of both our individual self-determination andself-fulfillment, and our participation in and contribution to society.
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e call for implementation, to the maximum extent possible, of equal access and reasonableaccommodations as an integral element of every design or plan, product, program, or service,private as well as public, afforded to members of our society.
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e claim these protections and provisions, not as measures of charity, but as matters of civiland human rights.
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e call upon our society to live up to its noblest ideals by guaranteeing citizens with disabilitiesequality of both opportunity and respect.
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e envision a society that supports and celebrates the rich array of human differences byaccommodating the myriad ways in which all people function.
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e proclaim that ensuring justice, equality, and dignity to people with disabilities will strengthenthe rights and respect accorded to all citizens by building a society truly pluralistic, democratic,and open to all.
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uided by these principles and representing America’s many diverse disability communities,we join in a cross-disability campaign to advance the rights and interests of Americans withdisabilities.
Goals and Values:
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National Agenda for Disability Rights
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oal 1:
Increase the availability of affordable, accessible, appropriate housingof their choice for people with disabilities in America.
Value Statement:
We value availability, affordability, accessibility, appropriateness, and individual choice inhousing. Appropriate housing depends on the needs of individuals and may include physical access, location of supportive services, flexibility of policies, availability of usable transportation, and other factors.
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oal 2:
Increase availability and coordination of community-based, health,mental health, independent living, housing and other services of their choice for people with disabilities.
Value Statement:
The disability community of America values independent living, health care, mental health care,housing, transportation, access to assistive technology and other services in their communities rather than insegregated settings. We value individual choice, self-determination, and range of options in these services,including the choice to decline services. We encourage creativity and effectiveness in development of servicedelivery systems.
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oal 3:
Ensure availability and accessibility of public and private transportationmechanisms for people with disabilities.
Value Statement:
The disability community of America values access to public transportation that meets our needs as a matter of course, rather than as a special favor. We value the integration of services to the disabilitycommunity into the overall public transportation system.
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oal 4:
Design and implement an effective and competitive education systemfor students with disabilities which includes appropriate integration, inclusion andspecialized services and supports.
Value Statement:
The disability community of America values the integration of students with and withoutdisabilities. The disability community values the provision of educational and supportive services (includingassistive technology) that are appropriate for each individual student,maximizing integration, inclusion andeducational benefit.
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oal 5:
Educate communities about disabilities and disability social history for the purpose of eliminating discrimination, implementing disability rights andincreasing responsibility for disability rights.
Value Statement:
The disability community of America values the understanding of and voluntary implementationof disability civil rights. We seek to preserve disability rights social history to foster an understanding of disability
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