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Parents with learning disabilities need support
- Author:
- BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.6.00, 2000, p.41.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Government policy on the family is beginning to recognise the importance of supporting parents in bringing up children. The author, research fellow in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, explains the workings of a support group for parents with learning difficulties.
Doing research with lonely people
- Author:
- BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 26(4), 1998, pp.132-134.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Eleven years ago the author was involved in a research study that looked at the effects of relocating people with learning difficulties from long-stay institutions into less restrictive accommodation. She became friends with one of the women who was moving from hospital and they still see each other often. Two subsequent research studies have also left a legacy of people who phone or write to her on a regular basis. This article addresses the ethical implications of including lonely people in research.
Side by side
- Author:
- BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.10.97, 1997, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses how for parents with learning difficulties dealing with officialdom often means being ignored or fobbed off. Looks at how, by having someone at their side, parents can make public services listen.
Dependent, frustrated and devalued
- Author:
- BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.12.90, 1990, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the experiences of Huddersfield Citizen Advocacy with statutory services in the context of the NHS and Community Care Act.
Growing up with parents who have learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 232p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
A life-story approach is used to present new evidence about how children from families where the parents have learning difficulties manage the transition to adulthood, and about the longer-term outcomes of such an upbringing. The book takes a fresh approach to a subject beset with prejudice and challenges readers to think again about many of the assumptions about the process of parenting and the needs of children. The authors offer a view of parental competence as a social attribute rather than an individual skill, assessing the implications for institutional policies and practices. They address the notion of children having to parent their disabled parents and argue for a shift in emphasis from protecting children to supporting families. The book also demonstrates the power of narrative research and its capacity for bringing alive people's experience in a way that enables others to better understand their lives.
The uncelebrated parent: stories of mothers with learning difficulties caught in the child protection net
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(2), June 2006, pp.94-102.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper presents the stories of three mothers with learning difficulties whose children have been involved in care proceedings. The authors let the mothers describe their experiences of the child protection system in their own words. From out of their intensely personal accounts comes a political narrative about the role of the state in the policing of marginalized and vulnerable families.
Parents with learning difficulties in the child protection system: experiences and perspectives
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(2), June 2005, pp.109-129.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article documents the views and feelings of parents with learning difficulties as they reflect on their first-hand experience of going through care proceedings. Drawing on interviews conducted as part of a wider study of how cases involving mothers and fathers with learning difficulties are handled by the child protection system and the family courts, the authors provide a parental perspective on assessments, support, case conferences and the court process as well as the after-effects on the families themselves.
A family at risk: multiple perspectives on parenting and child protection
- Authors:
- BOOTH Wendy, BOOTH Tim
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 32(1), March 2004, pp.9-15.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Parents with learning difficulties face a high risk of losing their children. This article looks at the case of one family. Using material drawn from court files, social worker statements, expert reports and personal interviews, collected as part of an ongoing research study funded by the Nuffield Foundation, it documents the conflicting accounts of the case.
In the frame: photovoice and mothers with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(4), June 2003, pp.431-442.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper presents the results of a photovoice project involving mothers with learning difficulties. Photovoice is a technique that challenges the established politics of representation by putting people in charge of how they document their own lives. The authors describe how the project was carried out and the problems they encountered. Analysis of the content of the mothers' photo albums in the context of their own personal stories throws light on both their individual lives and their collective experience. The results challenge discriminatory views of the women as different mothers.
Self-advocacy and supported learning for mothers with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(2), June 2003, pp.165-193.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article describes the work of the Supported Learning Project (SLP). The SLP was a DfEE ACLF funded programme designed to provide personal support and development in self-advocacy to mothers with learning difficulties. The authors provide an account of the project, an overview of the learning gains made by the mothers and the obstacles to progress they encountered, and an evaluation of the project's success in achieving its intended aims. The article concludes with a discussion of the transferable lessons that emerged from working with this hard-to-reach group of excluded mothers.