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Allocating homes for people with intellectual disability: needs, mix and choice
- Author:
- WIESEL Ilan
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 45(3), June 2011, pp.280-298.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Noting that in social housing, allocation of vacant placements is controlled by policies and guidelines with which decision-makers are required to comply, this article aims to examine the tensions between considerations of needs, mix and choice in allocations policy. It is based on information from a research project about housing choice when allocating housing for people with intellectual disability in the state of Victoria, Australia. The project included semi structured interviews with over 50 people involved in policy formulation, decisions concerning housing allocations, providing housing and support, and advocacy for people with intellectual disability. The article draws on analysis of, and examples from, the interviews to discuss elements in the allocation process, focusing on tensions between needs and choice, between needs and mix, and between choice and mix. The author suggests that recognising the interrelationships between needs, mix and choice is a possible way forward in developing a new understanding of what these concepts mean in the context of allocation policies, to guide future reforms in the social housing sector.
Possibility and risk in encounter between people with and without intellectual disability
- Authors:
- WIESEL Ilan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 46(1), 2021, pp.35-44.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Background: Unpredictability, the risk of harm and possibility of rewards, are integral elements of encounter. Risk literature offers insight on the complex ways in which risk perceptions and attunements shape behaviours and interactions in encounter between people with and without intellectual disability. Method: The paper draws on risk literature, encounter literature, and examples from the authors’ previously published studies on encounter and work integrated social enterprises. Results: Encounters between people with and without intellectual disability are shaped by perceptions of possible rewards and harms skills and experience in attunement to risk signals; disposition towards, and strategies of, risk aversion, management or enablement and environmental attributes of encounter settings. Conclusions: There is a need to shift community and disability services’ understanding of risk in encounter, by developing a positive appreciation of encounter risk, and development of risk enablement strategies that are learned through experiential practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mediating community participation: practice of support workers in initiating, facilitating or disrupting encounters between people with and without intellectual disability
- Authors:
- BIGBY Christine, WIESEL Ilan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 28(4), 2015, pp.307-318.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Promoting community participation for people with intellectual disability through encounter with strangers is an integral part of the mission of disability support workers. This paper offers detailed micro-level analysis of the practices of support workers when they accompany a person with intellectual disability outside their home and explores the subtle differences which make some staff practices more effective than others in promoting more convivial encounters with strangers. Based on 160 h of observations of twenty-six adults with intellectual disability in a variety of public places, and interviews and focus groups with their support workers, the paper points to some of the critical judgements support workers need to make when considering whether, when and how to initiate or intervene in such encounters. (Publisher abstract)
Encounter as a dimension of social inclusion for people with intellectual disability: beyond and between community presence and participation
- Authors:
- BIGBY Christine, WIESEL Ilan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 36(4), December 2011, pp.263-267.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In this article, the authors argue that people with intellectual disability are among the most disadvantaged and socially excluded in Australian society and that although they have become more present in society, most are not yet part of communities and there has been limited progress on social inclusion. The article discusses the concept of encounter, an innovative concept from urban studies used to describe and plan for interactions between strangers in cities. It notes that exchanges between neighbours, consumers, shopkeepers and strangers are examples of a range of encounters central to life in the city, and that convivial encounters, where strangers engage in a shared activity with a common purpose or intent, may be a potential tool to promote social inclusion for people with intellectual disability. It suggests that local governments and community organisations should think creatively about design and use of local space and facilities such as libraries or community centres that would facilitate encounters, and argues that understanding how people with intellectual disability experience encounters may assist evaluation of their social inclusion or exclusion.