P.S. for Post-Soviet: A Glimpse to a Life of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Gevorgianiene, Violeta; Sumskiene, Egle
Titel	P.S. for Post-Soviet: A Glimpse to a Life of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
Quelle	In: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 21 (2017) 3, S.235-247 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-6295
DOI	10.1177/1744629517701561
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Intellectual Disability; World History; Educational History; Access to Health Care; Access to Education; Social Bias; Residential Programs; Political Issues; Civil Rights; Inclusion; Barriers; Public Policy; Early Intervention; Preschool Education; Nongovernmental Organizations; Interviews; Questionnaires; USSR; Georgia; Moldova; Ukraine; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Intellect; Disability; Disabilities; Verstand; Behinderung; Weltgeschichte; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Politischer Faktor; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Inklusion; Öffentliche Ordnung; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Fragebogen; Moldava; Moldau (Republik); Moldau; Moldawien; Moldawa; Moldowa; Tadschikistan
Abstract	This article focuses on the situation of persons with intellectual disabilities in the developing post-Soviet countries and aims to review the extent to which services offered to them promote values of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and empower these persons to lead fulfilling lives. Interviews with experts revealed that post-Soviet countries form a peculiar cluster among other developing countries, which has specific attributes. First of all, there prevails a strong stigmatization, which consequently leads to the predominant silent mandate to isolate those with intellectual disabilities in big residential care institutions. Second, the governments' lack political will to start the reforms and initiatives of nongovernmental organizations which they do not sustain (or, assumingly, are even suppressed). As a result, persons with intellectual disabilities find themselves stuck between the Soviet tradition of exclusion and simulated superficial reforms. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01