Community‐centered strategies for supporting persons with disabilities

Making community inclusion work for persons with disabilities: drawing lessons from the field

“…Most importantly, this study found that these supposedly inclusive practices have largely failed to promote agency, critical consciousness, or solidarity among the disabled community for greater participation, integrated employment, or political engagement within communities -the key goals of community development. Drawing from Nisbet et al (2006), in order for community development to be truly inclusive, persons with disabilities across different strata of diverse societies such as India must be fully involved in articulating the vision, evaluating progress, and suggesting new ideas for inclusive communities.…”