TY - JOUR
T1 - Working together as neighbors
T2 - Rehabilitation researchers and indigenous people with disabilities in Mexico
AU - Marshall, C. A.
AU - Gotto IV, G. S.
AU - Perez Cruz, G.
AU - Flores Rey, P.
AU - Garcia Juarez, G.
N1 - Funding Information:
For many of us who have long-standing relationships with the citizens of our southern neighbor country, Mexico, the reality of multi-cultural issues in rehabilitation is grounded in those relationships and in a common history. At a time when economic ties between the US and Mexico are strengthening, we believe that access to health care and human services, as well as the needs and concerns of indigenous people with disabilities, are areas in which our two countries can also work more closely together. During October 1993, the senior author visited Oaxaca City in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico in order to improve her facility with the Spanish language and in order to meet the co-founders and co-coordinators of a consumer-initiated, consumer-driven organization called Acceso Libre (Free Access). The purpose of meeting with these two men, Germin P&ez Cruz and Pedro Flores Rey, was to propose a joint action project to benefit people with disabilities. The linkage to Oaxaca and to Acceso Libre was made initially through Partners of the Americas, a ‘voluntary organization promoting economic and social development in the western hemisphere, while fostering inter-American friendship and cooperation’ (Partners Brochure). The joint action project was made possible by a grant from the Kellogg Foundation, through the Partners organization.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Researchers from the American Indian Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (AIRRTC) have spent over a decade documenting the needs of American Indians with disabilities on a nationwide basis. In the past 5 years, AIRRTC research has been focused at the local community level, and has included American Indians with disabilities throughout the research via a participatory research process - from involvement in the design of the project, to instrument development, to data collection, to dissemination. Due to a supplemental grant that was awarded to the AIRRTC in 1994, researchers had the opportunity to extend the program of research and to share successful research strategies with Native Indian people in a country with which the US shares its southern border Mexico. This international research effort was conducted in collaboration with Acceso Libre (Free Access), a consumer-initiated and consumer-driven organization serving people with disabilities in the state of Oaxaca. It is anticipated that such sharing of resources and information will benefit rehabilitation personnel in the US by highlighting the need for culturally-sensitive rehabilitation intervention with indigenous people.
AB - Researchers from the American Indian Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (AIRRTC) have spent over a decade documenting the needs of American Indians with disabilities on a nationwide basis. In the past 5 years, AIRRTC research has been focused at the local community level, and has included American Indians with disabilities throughout the research via a participatory research process - from involvement in the design of the project, to instrument development, to data collection, to dissemination. Due to a supplemental grant that was awarded to the AIRRTC in 1994, researchers had the opportunity to extend the program of research and to share successful research strategies with Native Indian people in a country with which the US shares its southern border Mexico. This international research effort was conducted in collaboration with Acceso Libre (Free Access), a consumer-initiated and consumer-driven organization serving people with disabilities in the state of Oaxaca. It is anticipated that such sharing of resources and information will benefit rehabilitation personnel in the US by highlighting the need for culturally-sensitive rehabilitation intervention with indigenous people.
KW - Cultural sensitivity
KW - Indigenous people with disabilities
KW - Mexico
KW - Participatory research
KW - Rehabilitation
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U2 - 10.3233/jvr-1998-11108
DO - 10.3233/jvr-1998-11108
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0031691049
VL - 11
SP - 53
EP - 63
JO - Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
JF - Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
SN - 1052-2263
IS - 1
ER -