We did get a response to our letter and we have, with some help from the AIDS people, applied for a number of different programs including the first ever outreach to Mexico City Deaf people, which should be remarkable.

Hope to apply for a press conference this weekend.

This is a bit a connuundrum. The articles on Disability Alert are RSS and Atom-ized. Editing an article results in re-publication which irritates the reader since they have already seen it. I can add your comment, add a comment of our own or delete the article if you take offence to it. Any of those or another suggestion.

May I suggest you put your name at the top of your articles? It’s the best way to identify yourself as the author if that is your intent.

In our case, we give full attribution to all clipped articles and point the read back to the source, which I am told is the standard practice. We do not shorten articles. It takes too much time and we could be accused of editing which is not our intent.

http://www.disabilityequality.org

There is a lot of good disability and development research on the Disability KaR website:
http://www.disabilitykar.net

Welcome to We Can Do.

What you can do would obviously depend partly on you and exactly what skills, knowledge, abilities, and resources you have to offer (including time). But as starting points, I would suggest the following:

1. Get in touch with whatever local and international organizations are involved with the problem. There are many links in the We Can Do “blog roll” (see the right-hand navigation bar, or at the very bottom of the page). Some of these lead to organizations that are involved with special education internationally (eg, International Council on Education for People with Visual Impairments, International Deaf Children’s Society, Sense International, Enabling Education Network, etc., and some of the other links may be worth exploring also.

For ideas how to find still more organizations, see my post entitled Finding Local Disability Organizations, or consult the database at MIUSA’s web site which lists international, national, and local organizations in many different countries including in Nigeria. You will note that you can tell the database to search just for organizations in Nigeria.

2. As you come across organizations relevant to your interests, read their web pages to see what, if anything, they have been doing in Nigeria. And once you have informed yourself, don’t hesitate to ask them more questions about it.

3. As you research the topic, you might find that there are already some efforts underway to improve the status of special education in Nigeria. Very often projects DO EXIST but are not very visible because they may be small, new, limited in resources, and hard to find. If and when you find these projects–and in a large country like Nigeria, I’m sure there must already be something underway–I would encourage you to communicate with them and send them your c.v./resume. Perhaps you could then explore together with whatever organization you found whether or how your skills, knowledge, etc. could be helpful to their work.

Good luck in your endeavor.

As I explain to Madhav Rosyara above, We Can Do is not an organization that can be “joined.” Instead, you can think of it as a kind of on-going “newspaper” or a living resource. So, please do keep coming back to We Can Do to see new materials as I put them up (I’m trying to post at least one item each week, and some weeks I post much more). And if you are aware of any resources, “best practice” case studies, etc. that would be in some way helpful to disabled people in developing countries or the people who work with them, please do let me know!

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Exchanges of information on disability issues and disability studies in South Asia, including Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan etc.

The group has a non-medical orientation and supports approaches to disability in social contexts.

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We Can Do is not an organization, so there are no provisions for people “joining.” We Can Do is a blog. I’m the person who maintains the blog–usually I either post announcements from other sources or write my own entries to help point people to resources they might not have known about.

If you have any materials that you think would be appropriate for publication at We Can Do, please do let me know. These could be case studies about a project done well (with anaylysis of how others could replicate it), or even a case study of a project done poorly (with anaylsis of what mistakes were made that others would do well to avoid), or a check list that a mainstream organization could use to guide them in identifying how to make their projects accessible, or … if you have ideas we can discuss.

You are also welcome, of course, to keep coming back to We Can Do to read posts as I put them up (I will be putting up something soon from the International Deaf Children’s Society) , and you’re welcome to post comments as you wish.

I edited the email address you put in your post to help prevent spam harvesters from picking up your email address so you wouldn’t become the target of unsolicited bulk emails.

But if others want the same thing, and if someone out there more familiar with wordpress.com knows of a way to fix the default setting then advice would be appreciated. (Though I’m guessing a “simple fix” might not be possible since certain things are built into the template programs that come with WordPress.com and I’m not computer-savvy enough to go messing around with underlying templates.)

In the mean time, does your mouse or other navigation device have “right click” capability? (i.e. a right button to click as well as the left button) The way I do it when I’m navigating a web page is to hit the *right* button on my mouse which then gives me a menu of options what to do next including “open link in new window.” (Or “copy link” which can be useful if I’m copying down a list of URL addresses for later use.)

We apperecite your effort and will fully support in the cause removing poverty from Person with Disabilities. We have a suggestion that when we click on link on this blog; link opens in same window, when we want to remain here to read more. Is it possible for you links may be opened in new window?

1. http://www.deafread.com this is an aggregate read feed that pulls in many deaf-related blog sites and blog posts. These include vlogs (video blogs) many of which are in American Sign Language, and I think some of which are in other signed languages. Depending on your level of ASL skills, watching some of these vlogs could be good practice for you.

2. http://deafness.about.com try looking around here to see if they have links or recommendations for you

3. of course I assume you have also tried doing key word searches on http://www.google.com