When people “with disabilities” discriminate against people with disabilities?!? Anecdotal case: A manager at an organization, with an invisible disability, discriminates against a young person with a visible disability, but cloaks their ableism in seemingly anti-ableist rhetoric. How to react? The fact that a person is categorised as severely disabled does not change the fact…
Kategorie: Communication Rights and Ableism
Care and personal assistance – the difference. Against the backdrop of practice in Germany Confronting and Challenging Ableism Together Assistance and care are never neutral: they are embedded in social structures of power and discrimination. A central problem here is ableism – the expectation that disabled people should conform to a supposed norm. Ableism shows…
Image: Illustration highlighting themes of ableism and speech divergence, featuring people discussing and using communication aids. Isolated and overlooked – users of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) call for a say by Pegi – I use AAC. An assistant and an AI help me to formulate my messages. The content reflects my opinion. We, the…
Human assistance, AI and speaking, writing texts We ask the AI: „Do you think it is legitimate to work with AI when you are a user of AAC and also use a human assistant for joint formulation and typing? How can such a constellation make it clear that “I as the AAC user”, “the…