This assignment requires you to learn about a community organization that offers advocacy and promotes empowerment for people with disabilities.
You can choose to do your assignment on 1 of these 3 advocacy groups:
1. Disability Justice Network of Ontario
2. The Ontario Autism Coalition
3. Sins Invalid
You have a choice on what form of assignment you do.
You can either create a 30-minute slide deck presentation with audio description narrating your slides, or write an 8 page report on the community advocacy group.
Guiding questions:
What is the organization/community group? What kind of group are they & who funds them (grassroots/NGO/Govt etc.)?
How does this funding affect what they do/don’t do?
What are the problems that they are organizing around/addressing?
What are the specific issues that they tackle?
What are the tactics (the actual actions) that they use to make change? Give us a few examples of the actual strategies they have used to make change in the world.
Why does their work matter to disabled people? Does the group align with disability studies frameworks? How? Has the organization addressed the impact of Coviod-19? How?
We grade the presentation and report for: cohesive organization, comprehension, engagement, content, clarity, accessibility, Disability Studies theoretical approach, and integration of course content.
