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Navigating paradox: reflections on facilitating self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- ILES I. K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities for Nursing Health and Social Care, 3(3), 1999, pp.163-167.
It is quite usual for people with learning difficulties in self-advocacy groups to be supported by non-disabled staff of one sort or another. There is a wide range of literature detailing issues relevant to the practice of supporting such groups that can be drawn upon by staff to inform their practice. This article suggests that there needs to be a more critical engagement with the experimental of working in this field and that group facilitators need to be critically-reflecting on their practice in this area as well as reading about it. Argues that through the dialectic accounts generated as a result of engaging with questions of the kind 'How do I improve this process of self-advocacy here?' that workers in this field are creating living theories of practice.
Mental health and learning disability
- Authors:
- CARPENTER David, TURNBULL John, KAY Alan
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 81p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Open learning module. Part 1 introduces the principles of mental health nursing, exploring some of the complex philosophical, social and professional issues around mental health services. Part 2 introduces similar topics related to learning difficulties.
Inclusion and autonomy for people with multiple and complex learning difficulties
- Authors:
- MERRILL Kirsten, BOYCE Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Applied Community Studies, 3(1), 1996, pp.77-91.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
For people such as those with severe learning difficulties who have had little or no involvement in decision making over their futures, learning to make decisions inevitably requires the time and resources afforded them by more able others. The Advocacy Movement has been hugely influential, though there is still a need for change in societal attitudes. This paper attempts to address issues relating to successful integration such as the availability of resources, ethical implications and the tension that can arise between the service users and professionals.
Learning disability: a social approach
- Editor:
- RACE David
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book looks at how people with learning disabilities are affected by human services. It covers specific policy and service issues and different aspects of working with people. Designed as a textbook on learning disability suitable for undergraduate and other courses particularly the degree course which many of these authors were connected, namely the B.A.(Hons.) Professional Studies: Learning Difficulties. Contents include: voices of people; the context of learning disability services; working with people; academia and learning disability.
International ethical safeguards: genetics and people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- DIESFELD Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(1), January 1999, pp.21-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the ethical issues and international standards relating to genetic research on people with learning disabilities. This research provides a brief historical context and considers five issues of fundamental importance to people with learning disabilities through a discussion of participating in the research design, independent advocacy, justice, non-discrimination and autonomy.
Quality in later life: rights, rhetoric and reality: British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, (30th:Stirling; 2002, 31 August-2 September)
- Editors:
- TESTER S, ARCHIBALD C, ROWLINGS C, TURNER S
- Publisher:
- Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 294p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
These conference papers explore the issue of quality in later life, the factors that affect older people's experience and their understanding of what matters to them. Gerontologists have much to contribute both to analysis and the promotion of quality in old age. This contribution continues to develop the means by which older people, including those with significant mental or physical disabilities can make themselves participate in the debates by defining their own experiences and what makes a difference to them.