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Assessment – what is important to this person?
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 23(3), Spring 2010, pp.19-20.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Assessment is the systematic collection, recording and interpretation of information for a particular purpose. In the past, it has been usual for some very negative information to be collected about people with learning disabilities, sometimes as a supposed way of identifying needs, but sometimes as a trigger for control, subversion and oppression. This short article urges students to develop positive values towards people with learning disabilities and an orientation towards positive information about them. These principles, the author suggests, can, and should be, reflected in assessment.
Managing organisational change
- Author:
- O'DRISCOLL David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 20(1), 2006, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Many studies indicate that people with learning difficulties feel positive about moves from institutional community-based living but little research had been undertaken into how staff react to these changes. The author draws on research undertaken by Respond looking at the problems for staff and how they can be helped.
Tackling health inequalities in Wandsworth
- Author:
- GILES Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 18(4), May 2005, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author reports on a project in Wandsworth called Health Matters that is designed to initiate deviceful ways to support their local health providers by making their services easier to use. The project was inspired by the result of 10 focus groups of people with mild to moderate learning difficulties who believed that they had two barriers facing them in life: (1) society did not know enough about learning difficulties and (2) that people ignoring or talking over them were commonplace. The project set out various ways to promote awareness of learning difficulties that included training, identification cards, improving hospital accessibility, a CD and website.
A crime is a crime whatever it is called
- Author:
- PERRY Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 16(3), 2003, pp.21-22.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses how, when people with learning difficulties report crimes against them, the police don't always take them seriously. Looks at the confusion caused when different terms are used for the same offence such as hate crime also being called bullying.
Is what you need what you really want?
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Need is good and want is bad is the first lesson of care manager, says the author. But when it comes to the supply of personal care products, shouldn't disabled people be involved in choosing them? However argues that disabled people should be involved in choosing their own personal care products.
Is the independent living movement about liberation or oppression?
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(4), April 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Argues that it is time the independent living movement stopped thinking about disabled people in stereotypes and focused on their opportunities for real living.
Are villages really 'a suitable option'?
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(3), January 2000, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Since publication of the Hester Adrian Research Centre's report comparing hospital campuses, village communities and dispersed community-based housing, it has been assumed that village communities have been given a new seal of approval. The author takes a close look at research findings and concludes that people have been jumping to erroneous conclusions.
Transform your team
- Author:
- O'ROURKE Siobhan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(2), October 1999, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
However good the training to deal with challenging behaviour, the results will not be sustained if the staff team is in conflict. Discusses the use of a new approach, known as Transformational Work, to combine Gentle Teaching with a programme to help staff overcome their problems and work together constructively.
I wish it had happened years ago
- Authors:
- McKIE Tony, JOHNSON Denise
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(3), January 1999, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Hospital closures have often been vigorously resisted by relatives and a Sunderland hospital was no exception. Reports on how after their relatives had been resettled in the community, attitudes changed dramatically.
A fairer hearing?
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 11(4), April 1998, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Alun Michael the Minister of State for the Home Office, has promised to shake up the way people with learning difficulties are treated by the criminal justice system. At present only a tiny percentage of reported offences ever get to court. Asks whether the system will be changed to achieve a fairer balance for people with learning difficulties.