Stärkung der Selbstbestimmung und Teilhabe

This paper deals with the development potential of personal support for people with a so-called intellectual disability. This service is a form of integration assistance to support social participation and is provided by the organisations of disability assistance. The service of integration assistance aims at supporting the self-determination and participation of people with a participation impairment in the sense of the UN Disability Rights Con-vention. The organizations of the handicapped aid are commissioned to realize the objectives of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Disabled in their support services. In the everyday practice of disability assistance, the guiding principles of self-determination, equal participation and inclusion, as described in the UN Disability Rights Convention, have so far only been implemented to a limited extent. A modernization and transformation of the services of disability assistance with fundamental consideration of inclusion-oriented objectives is largely lacking.
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has taken up the guiding idea of inclusion and describes the legal claims of people with disabilities in order to realize participation and involvement in social and legal contexts. The basic principle is that all citizens are enabled to participate equally in life in society. In various new legal regu-lations, such as the Disability Equality Act, the reform law on long-term care insurance, but above all with the law to strengthen the participation and self-determination of people with disabilities, the legislator has concretised the call of the UN Disability Rights Convention in social law. This new legal orientation calls for inclusive changes in all are-as of society.
The dissertation project investigates the social and spatial potentials of personal support for social participation that enable people with a so-called intellectual disability to participate equally in society. The aim of the project is to support the development of a con-temporary service for people with a so-called intellectual disability.