Development and Disability
by Diane Driedger, Henry Enns and Valerie Regehr
MCC Occasional Paper, No. 9
April 1989
About the authors
Diane Driedger has served as a staff person with DPI for many years. She has written numerous articles on international issues affecting disabled people. Her master's thesis on the history of DPI will be published early in 1989. She presently is editing a book of the stories of disabled women from all over the world. She has worked with MCC in several assignments related to disabled people.
Henry Enns has been involved in developing self-help grassroots organizations of disabled people at the local, national and international level. In 1981, he was a member of the Canadian Delegation to the U.N. Advisory Committee for the International Year of Disabled Persons and has since been a consultant for the Canadian government to various U.N. delegations. He has been chairperson and deputy chairperson for Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) from 1980 to the present. He has written extensively on international issues affecting disabled people.
Valerie Regehr has also worked as staff person with DPI in Winnipeg, Man. She is a student at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries in Elkhart, Ind.
All three writers are from Winnipeg, Man., and have played an integral role in developing the independent living movement in Canada in whose formation MCC has played an important role.
