From Advocacy to Activism: Families, Communities, and Collective Change

This article provides an analysis of family quality of life in the context of parents’ struggle to access equitable education for their children with disabilities, and suggests that the Quality of Life (QoL) conceptual framework (Brown, Schalock, & Brown, ), having already expanded to include the individual to the family unit, be further extended to engage the community. To illustrate, we describe two community‐based projects aimed at moving family involvement in special education away from a model of individual advocacy, situated within western ethnocentric organizational structures that rely on sociocultural capital, to grassroots collective activism.
Source: Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities - Category: Disability Authors: Tags: Quality of Life ‐New Directions Source Type: research