What is it about?
This article takes its cue from Mike Oliver's typology of disability organisations in the UK and discusses the type of disability organisations in Malta, with a focus on how many are led by disabled people themselves, and how many are led by parents of disabled people or by professionals.
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Why is it important?
Organisations led by disabled people (Disabled People's Organisations or DPOs)play a key role in promoting disabled people's perspectives, in line with the disabled people's movement slogan of 'Nothing About Us Without Us'.
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It is encouraging that since I published this article, there are now more DPOs in Malta.
Anne-Marie Callus
University of Malta
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This page is a summary of: From ‘for’ to ‘of’: a typology of Maltese disability organisations, Disability & Society, May 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2013.776487.
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