Disability Rights Advocacy and Efficacy : Challenge and Initiative in

Organization and Business. An Introductory Discussion.

Advocacy for disabled individuals is a form of professional development

with rampant consequences for enhancement of core principles of delivery
and efficacy in communication, research, policy, and business.

While the ubiquitous ableist premises that underlie organizational neglect,

disdain, or poor practices, remain in effect (analogous with important
exceptions with other forms of social inequalities) effective and high-impact
disability advocacy is feasible, desirable, and can provide a salient
interpretive paradigm for providing access in a manner that satisfies
evolving definitions, values, and changes in disability discourse.

The more that is understood concerning disability audiences, and the more
that behaviors for adequate, accessible, ethical and humane interaction with
and among disability populations, the more important it remains to develop
and hone skills for catalyzing approaches to coordinate, examine, and
modify conditions in which disability communities reside and intersects with
institutions, large and small.

Organizations are an optimal setting for critical interaction among disability

stake-holders (individuals and advocates) whose freedom to explore, design,
and implement ongoing advances underway in disability law whether
through policy change, litigation, or public education, and via other means
of cultural transformation, is enshrined in disability law.

Disability service provision is not well understood or evenly developed. It is

a field that continues to reveal new intersections of rights discourse with
technology, science, education, culture, media, and law.