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<DIV><SPAN class=531313202-07122003><FONT color=#0000ff>Or another possibility
could be "persons with disabilities, including mental, physical, and
other"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531313202-07122003><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531313202-07122003><FONT
color=#0000ff>Elizabeth</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> ct-admin@wsis-cs.org
[mailto:ct-admin@wsis-cs.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Elizabeth Carll,
PhD<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 06, 2003 9:30 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
plenary@wsis-cs.org; Hiroshi Kawamura; pwd@wsis-cs.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> Sally
Burch; ct-drafting@wsis-cs.org; ct@wsis-cs.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [WSIS
CS-Plenary] Re: [Pwd] (unicode) [WSIS-CT] RE: [Ct-drafting] URGENT: Please
send COMMENTS on CS declaration<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT color=#0000ff>Dear Thian and
Hiroshi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT color=#0000ff> In many
countries including the US, unless mental or psychological is specified it is
often excluded. This is especially true with health insurance coverage
and services. How about a qualifier such as "persons with disabilities,
including mental and physical" as this would include mental but not
limit it to physical as it is used as an example of the types of
disabilities?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT color=#0000ff>Best
regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=156381802-07122003><FONT
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=906011013-06122003>Dr. Elizabeth
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style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><SPAN class=906011013-06122003>International
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org [mailto:plenary-admin@wsis-cs.org]<B>On Behalf Of
</B>Monthian Buntan<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:41
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Hiroshi Kawamura; pwd@wsis-cs.org<BR><B>Cc:</B> Sally Burch;
ct-drafting@wsis-cs.org; ct@wsis-cs.org;
plenary@wsis-cs.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [Pwd] (unicode)
[WSIS-CT] RE: [Ct-drafting] URGENT: Please send COMMENTS on CS
declaration<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT size=3>Dear
Hiroshi:<BR><BR>Thank you for your kind imput. However, I have some
great concern over the word mental and physical disabilities. Under
many circumstances, the word "physical disabilities" may not include sensory
impairment at all. At least in thailand, the term "physical
disabilities" refer only to persons with mobility impairment.
Therefore, I would prefer "persons with disabilities" as it speaks for the
broadest range of "disabilities" regardless of types and
severity.<BR><BR>Please seriously take it into consideration or otherwise we
may end up exlcuding many people out of different understanding and
interpretation.<BR><BR>Again, I confirm that "persons with disabilities" is
absolutely broader than "persons with physical and mental
disabilities."<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR>Thian<BR><BR> At 11:14 PM
12/6/2003, Hiroshi Kawamura wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">The following text is copied
from WSIS-CT mailing list with permission of<BR>original author. ---
Hiroshi<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>The
paragraph posted by Sally Burch, below is the latest and most
accurate<BR>version of the MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH CARE section for
inclusion in the<BR>"PRINCIPLES, GOALS AND CHALLENGES section ( or
possibly in Social Justice<BR>section), which I had submitted.<BR><BR>The
section should be titled; MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
CARE<BR><BR>The delivery of life-critical mental and physical health
information can be<BR>facilitated and improved through ICT-based
solutions. Lack of access to<BR>information and communication has been
identified as a critical factor in<BR>the public mental and physical
health crises around the world. Experts have<BR>suggested that providing
citizens of underdeveloped countries with community<BR>level points of
access to mental and physical health information would be a<BR>critical
starting point for addressing the mental and physical health
care<BR>crises. However, such access points should support more than
one-way flows<BR>of information (for example, from expert to community or
patient).<BR>Communities must be allowed to participate in the selection
and creation of<BR>communication flows that they find useful and necessary
to address the<BR>prevention, treatment, and promotion of mental and
physical health care for<BR>all people.<BR><BR>In addition, please note
the following revisions in brackets, which were<BR>previously recommended
but in latest draft have been omitted. Please<BR>re-insert.
Most of these refer to specifying mental and physical health,
as<BR>opposed to only physical, and should be included for consistency
and<BR>clarity.<BR><BR>3.2.4 Access to Information and the Means of
Communication, paragraph 3<BR><BR>Specific needs and requirements of all
stakeholders, including those with<BR>[mental and physical] disabilities,
must be....<BR><BR>3.2.5 Basic literacy, par 1 last
sentence<BR><BR>People-centered information technologies can foster
eradication of [mental<BR>and physical] illnesses and epidemics, can help
give everyone food, shelter,<BR>freedom and peace.<BR><BR>3.2.5 Basic
literacy, par 3 last sentence<BR><BR>must include a focus on the needs of
people who have [mental and] physical<BR>impairments and all means of
transcending those impairments ...<BR><BR>3.3.8 Human development ­
education and training, par 2<BR> Literacy, education, and research
efforts in the Information Society must<BR>include a focus on the needs of
people who have [mental and] physical<BR>impairments and all means of
transcending those impairments....<BR><BR><BR><BR>In par 4
-<BR><BR><BR><BR>...special needs: those of young and elderly people, of
women, of people<BR>with [mental and physical] impairments, of indigenous
peoples, of migrant<BR>communities, of refugees and returnees in
post-conflict situations, in a<BR>life-long
perspective...<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>3.3.9 Information generation and
knowledge development - research, par 1,<BR>sentence
3<BR><BR><BR><BR>Clear principles should be developed for the use and
exploitation of the<BR>body of knowledge produced [e.g. Scientific
research data should be gender<BR>and age disaggregated for mental and
physical health.]<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>4. Conclusion, par 2, last
sentence<BR><BR><BR><BR>....the right to a standard of living adequate for
the [mental and physical]<BR>health and well-being of the individual and
his or her family, including<BR>food housing and (delete medical)
[mental and physical health]care.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>3.1.9 Rights of
Persons with Disabilities: recommended by Monthian Buntan<BR><BR><BR><BR>I
also support the inclusion of the section below recommended by
Monthian<BR>Buntan, however, I would recommend the following revisions to
be consistent<BR>with the rest of the document. While it is helpful
to specify types and<BR>degree of disabilities, these can be seen as
referring to physical only as<BR>often mental and physical health care
have been disconnected in many<BR>countries.<BR><BR><BR><BR>3.1.9 Rights
of Persons with [Mental and Physical] Disabilities:<BR><BR><BR>In the
inclusive information society, the rights of persons with [mental
and<BR>physical] disabilities to have full and absolute equal access to
information<BR>and communications including ICTs, regardless of types and
degree of<BR>disabilities, must be ensured by laws and policies at all
levels. In order<BR>to achieve such goal, Universal Design principle
and the use of assistive<BR>technologies must be seriously promoted and
supported throughout the whole<BR>process of building and nurturing the
information society in which PWDs and<BR>their organizations must be
allowed to participate fully and on equal terms<BR>with non-disabled
people.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Thank you for all your work on this.
Look forward to meeting everyone in<BR>Geneva as hoping to arrive Monday
morning, however, there is a huge blizzard<BR>and snowing now in New York
and flights are delayed.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Elizabeth<BR><BR><BR><BR>Dr.
Elizabeth Carll<BR><BR>Focal Point<BR><BR>International Society for
Traumatic Stress Studies<BR><BR>Tel: 631-754-2424<BR><BR>Fax:
631-754-5032<BR><BR>ecarll@optonline.net<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Pwd
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