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Living alone or with others: housing and support for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- KING Nigel, HARKER Maurice
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A guide for family carers, social workers and those who wish to find out more about the different housing and support options for people with learning disabilities. Explains the various choices, how to access housing and what support people can find.
Moving home: costs associated with different models of accommodation for adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- MYLES S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 8(6), November 2000, pp.406-416.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper reports on variation in the cost and social outcomes of provision for clients with learning disabilities, resettled across different models of community accommodation; identifying personal and service-related characteristics influential on such variation. The study was conducted to inform the community reprovisioning strategy associated with the phased closure of the Gogarburn and Tornaveen learning disability hospitals in the Lothian region, Scotland. Total mean service costs, quality of life and community integration outcome data were collected and compared. Overall, there was an inverse relationship between total mean costs and size of accommodation. There was no evidence of a direct relationship between costs and changes in social outcomes. Services with the lowest mean costs were, however, associated with the smallest increases in social outcomes. The most expensive services did not realise proportionally greater gains in social outcomes. The paper concludes that clients generally benefited from the transition from hospital to community accommodation. However, some experienced better outcomes than others. In the absence of a clear link between levels and type of resource use and social outcomes, it is difficult to identify which service features are more or less efficacious in achieving positive outcomes. Broader evaluation perspectives, embracing a fuller range of costs and benefits, will be required to unpack exactly what it is about different models of community care provision that leads to positive outcomes, or otherwise, for learning disability clients. A more sound evidence base is required before effective strategies can be designed to ensure that key policy outcomes are realised and social integration truly achieved.
Vocabulary needs in augmentative and alternative communication: a sample of conversational topics between staff providing services to adults with learning difficulties and their service users
- Author:
- GRAVES Judy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 28(3), September 2000, pp.113-119.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper describes an attempt to gather information about vocabulary needs of a sample of people with learning difficulties in order to inform the content of local augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) resources and training programmes. The participants were staff members working in a range of local day care and residential services who were asked to record topics of conversation in diaries. The results of the present study suggest that physical needs and function were the most frequent topic areas for conversation. There were far fewer conversations recorded for social and emotional topics. Flexible topic-based frameworks for AAC programmes are suggested as a model that might be able to respond to individual and local vocabulary needs more readily than any one prescribed vocabulary.
Research
- Authors:
- GILES Ann, CAMPBELL Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.5.00, 2000, p.35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors review research resources on the importance of key working and what people with learning difficulties think about the services they receive.
Approaches to advocacy for and by adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Martin, McCONKEY Roy
- Publisher:
- University of St. Andrews
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 163p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- St. Andrews
This training pack is intended for adults with learning disabilities, support staff and trainers. It aims to increase awareness, improve confidence and self esteem through a structured training course. Advocacy in its many forms aims to give people with a learning disability a stronger voice to make their wishes and needs known, and to protect vulnerable individuals he course can be facilitated and taught by people with learning disabilities with some support, or by support staff.
Paid work and housing : a comparative guide to the impact of employment on housing and support for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- PANNELL Jenny, SIMONS Ken, MACADAM Margaret
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 77p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This book compares the French and UK systems of providing related employment, support and housing for people with learning disabilities, focusing on and exploring the extent to which these systems facilitate opportunities to access work and housing. It identifies and describes a range of employment-related projects in the UK and France, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of both systems, and canvassing the opinions of those providing and, importantly, those using the services. The report makes recommendations for the future development of housing and employment options, suggesting ways in which these could include wider community involvement. With policy changes expected in this area in the UK, it aims to put the views of people with learning disabilities firmly on the agenda.
Responding effectively to students' mental health needs: project report
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, MANTHORPE Jill, BRADLEY Greta
- Publisher:
- University of Hull
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Hull
This project was funded under the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Special Initiative to Encourage High Quality Provision for Students with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities. This initiative offered higher education institutions (HEIs) support in developing their disability services to meet the demands of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 at a time when the numbers and diversity of the student population were increasing. Throughout the nineties, student counselling services regularly identified concerns about increasing levels of severe mental health problems in the student population, and, as academics, the project team were familiar with the high levels of anxiety generated by individual cases.
'Help me out, help me in': reprovisioning, resettlement and the scope for social inclusion in Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTTISH HOMES
- Publisher:
- Scottish Homes
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Study of resettlement in the community from long-stay hospitals, and the extent to which it has promoted inclusion
Permanency planning: families of children with intellectual disability
- Authors:
- OW Rosaleen, LANG Fu Ji
- Journal article citation:
- Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, 10(2), September 2000, pp.73-85.
- Publisher:
- Times Academic
Discusses findings of a qualitative study of 17 families with a child with intellectual disability in Singapore covering propensity towards permanency planning and systematic or individual factors that influenced the process. In a collectivistic society, the familial network is expected to assume long-term care of the child with disability at the disablement or demise of elderly parents. Several systematic and perceptual factors seemed to work against this ideal. Discusses implications for supporting permanency planning at an early stage of the family life cycle.
Between ambition and achievement
- Authors:
- BIGNALL Tracey, BUTT Jabeer
- Journal article citation:
- Values into Action, 102, 2000, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
Summarises the findings of research by the Race Equality Unit into young black disabled people's views and experiences of independence and independent living.