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Disability Minute for July 15, 2015

Disability Visability Project

During today's Disability Minute, Alice Wong - founder and Project Coordinator for the Disability Visability Project... a part of the StoryCorps project - gives us an 'Angry ADA Minute'. According to Wong, who is a San Francisco based disability activist, we still have a long way to go for true disability equality.

TRANSCRIPT:

Hi, my name is Alice Wong and this is my ADA minute, or rather, my Angry ADA minute. While it’s wonderful to celebrate this huge anniversary and look back with nostalgia, I resist the sense that the ADA or other similar laws are the pinnacles of disability rights. There is so much more that needs to be done. Culture change is slow and difficult, especially when it comes to dismantling institutions, policies and structures that continue to marginalize and hurt people with disabilities. For example, here are a few things that burn my biscuits:

1: The continued institutional bias in Medicaid personal care services with years-long waiting list for community-based services

2: The school-to-prison-pipeline that disproportionately impacts students with disabilities

3: Violence toward people with disabilities in their interactions with law enforcement and access barriers in prison and the justice system.  

This is Alice Wong and thanks for listening.

Alice Wong, is a Staff Research Associate at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF. Alice works on various research projects for the Community Living Policy Center and is an author of online curricula for home care providers and caregivers for Elsevier’s College of Personal Assistance and Caregiving. Currently, she is the Project Coordinator for the Disability Visibility Project, a community partnership with StoryCorps. The Disability Visibility Project is a grassroots effort collecting oral histories of Americans with disabilities celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Alice is also an Advisory Board member of APIDC (Asian Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California) and a Presidential appointee to the National Council on Disability (until September 2015), an independent federal agency charged with advising the President, Congress, and other federal agencies on disability policy.

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