Talk:James Charlton (activist)

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He created a model of the disability rights movement that differentiates between a number of different kinds of organizations:
 * 1) Local self-help groups, which provide counseling and moral support, and which often do not have a set agenda because their concerns focus primarily on group members;
 * 2) Advocacy and program centers on a local level, which include non-residential Independent Living, non-profit organizations that educate the public and engage in advocacy and service;
 * 3) Single-issue advocacy groups on the local level, which often align themselves with larger advocacy groups at higher levels;
 * 4) Public policy groups, which can include educational centers and institutes, such as the World Institute on Disability;
 * 5) Single-issue advocacy groups on the national level, which focus on a specific problem, such as accessible transportation or personal attendant services;
 * 6) National membership organizations, which advocate using local chapters;
 * 7) National coalitions and federations of groups, which are autonomous organizations that link and co-advocate, such as the National Council on Independent Living;
 * 8) National single-disability organizations, the oldest type of disability group, which are focused on a particular disability,
 * 9) Regional organizations, which are neither national nor local, such as a state group or a group based on a larger sub-region of a country; and
 * 10) International organizations that have a global focus, such as Mobility International.

Accotink2 talk 01:42, 17 October 2010 (UTC)


 * This material can either be used in a new article or merged into Disability rights movement or maybe there is another article that could better accommodate this. I have posted a note about this on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disability. Roger (talk) 08:24, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The list appears valuable and, if it can be reliably sourced, it shouldn't disappear from Wikipedia!
 * Disability rights movement seems a good place for it, credited to Charlton, of course, if he's really responsible for it. I note that in List of disability rights activists, it says that he "developed a model of different kinds of disability activists groups in the United States" (my emphasis).   Hordaland (talk) 12:09, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * If this biography expands enough the above section can be returned to the page, but as it is now it would totally dominate the article. What do we know about the man himself? Where was he born and raised? What do we know about his education and career? Does he have a disiability and if so what is it? Roger (talk) 12:20, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Is it really a "Model"?
Can one really call a simple list that sorts organisations into fairly obvious categories according to their activities a "Model"? The cited source calls it a "typology". Roger (talk) 13:21, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

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Rewriting the "Typology of Disability Rights"
I have Charlton's book in my hand. This is the summary of his "Typology of Disability Rights" Roger (talk) 08:50, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Local self-help groups
 * 2) Local advocacy and program centers
 * 3) Local single issue advocacy groups
 * 4) Public policy groups
 * 5) Single issue national advocacy groups
 * 6) National membership organizations
 * 7) National coalitions/federations of groups
 * 8) National single disability organizations
 * 9) Regional organizations
 * 10) International organizations

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