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Whose terms?
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.10.89, 1989, pp.19-22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers the debate of the usage of mental handicap/learning disability, and how people with learning difficulties/mental handicap perceive themselves and how they would like others to see them.
Whose home, whose life?
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 8(4), April 1995, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Outlines a range of innovative approaches to housing and support for people with learning difficulties. Argues that RESCARE should be more concerned about lack of security for people living in institutions and concentrate their energies on developing good quality community-based services.
Getting a foot in the door: the strategic significance of supported living
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 3(2), April 1998, pp.7-16.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The central argument of this article is that supported living has a potential strategic role in addressing some of the current shortcomings in community-based residential services. These shortcomings are described, along with the possible contribution of an approach in which housing and support are separated. Finally some of the current concerns about supported living are briefly addressed.
Practising partnership: involving people with learning difficulties in research
- Authors:
- WARD Linda, SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 26(4), 1998, pp.128-131.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article gives examples of people with learning difficulties helping to set the research agenda; advising and assisting with research projects; undertaking research themselves; and being both the target of, and actively involved in, the dissemination of research. It concentrates on describing practical examples of involvement rather than the theoretical context and debates surrounding it.
Who counts?
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.3.92, 1992, pp.iv-v.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers how care management will affect Individual Programme Planning and self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties.
More researching together: the role of nondisabled researchers in working with People First members
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Val, SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 33(1), March 2005, pp.6-14.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The author described the process by which a team of People First researchers and myself worked together on a small-scale project in Bristol. The project was started by self advocates, and followed their own ideas, although they had support. Walmsley refers to it as a 'team approach, rather than one where the people with learning disabilities are in charge', admitting that the title 'Researching Together' led her to this conclusion. My basic aim in writing this sequel, then, is to consider the notion of 'together'. Is the equation of togetherness about equal roles, or does it automatically imply that one partner is more powerful than the others? This is a practice paper, which offers some analysis of our own experiences in a large-scale, funded research project, in which the self advocates had paid employment as researchers. All members of the team can contribute to this kind of reflexivity. The article concludes that inclusive research is something new, with its own hallmarks and styles. The research supporter has to remain aware of the potential power in her own role, and to be prepared to divest herself of that power and to step back, so that People First members take control of the process of research.
The bottom line: incentives and disincentives for a wider range of housing and support options
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 4(1), February 2001, pp.20-26.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Relatively few people with learning disabilities have their own homes. Argues that to achieve a wider range of housing and support options there must be consistent financial incentives. For strategies to be successful in introducing significant change, some of the financial and administrative inconsistencies in benefits, ILF, out of area placements and Supporting People will have to be addressed.
Residential care, or housing and support?
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 25(1), 1997, pp.2-6.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Until recently the place in which people with learning difficulties live, and the kind of support they would expect to get there, have been bound up with each other. This article discusses the possibility that separating out the two elements of housing and support, both in conceptual and organisational terms, may provide a contribution to continued improvement for life for people with learning disabilities who need somewhere to live.
Independent Living: the numbers game
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.2.96, 1996, p.3.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that the past 15 years have seen the emphasis on individual needs, but now, the time has come to use collective action to influence events for people with learning difficulties.
A chance to speak
- Author:
- SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.1.93, 1993, pp.25-26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Self advocacy groups for people with learning disabilities empower service users but are accepted only with reluctance by some professionals. Gives details of the British Advocacy Project Study.