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COVID-19 and disabled people: perspectives from Iran
- Authors:
- JALALI Maryam, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 35(5), 2020, pp.844-847.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This is a Current Issue because, at the time of writing, COVID-19 has affected many countries and territories worldwide and Iran ranked early on as one of the most seriously affected countries. As a result, this pandemic crisis poses a considerable challenge to people with disabilities in Iran. This short article shows the different challenges people with disabilities are facing during the COVID emergency in Iran. In addition, it provides several recommendations, based on the perspective and experience in Rehabilitation and Health Policy Centres, to improve the situation in the content of the COVID-19 breakout.
Narrative accounts of university education: socio-cultural perspectives of students with disabilities
- Author:
- GIBSON Suanne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 27(3), May 2012, pp.353-369.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Research in higher education suggests the need for educationalists to show greater understanding and awareness of the lived experiences of undergraduate students with disabilities. It is argued that this knowledge should then be used to inform their understandings as tutors and facilitate inclusive and effective teaching strategies. This research focused on five first-year students with disabilities’ learning experiences; their transitions from school or college to university and their feedback on positive and negative learning experiences at both levels. Rich stories were uncovered taking the research beyond the lecture theatre and seminar room, into the students’ union bar and back to the Year 10 classroom. This paper tells some of the stories shared, in particular drawing out findings related to effective learning practices, and notes the significance of placing a socio-cultural lens on the question of inclusion in education.
A host of opportunities: second NHSN survey of family based short break schemes for children and adults with intellectual and other disabilities in the Republic of Ireland
- Author:
- HANRAHAN Des
- Publisher:
- National Home-sharing and Short Breaks Network
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 70p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Mullingar
The National Home-Sharing and Short Breaks Network is an association which supports the use, promotion and provision of host family based services for Irish citizens with intellectual disability, physical disability and autism. While the majority of respite services are centre based, the family-based model of providing short breaks to people with disabilities involves recruiting approved individuals, couples and families who agree to provide personalised breaks in their own homes as an alternative to traditional residential respite. In this report the terms short breaks with volunteer host families or paid contract families, and home sharing provided by host families are used in place of respite care and residential care respectively. The report describes the methodology for the questionnaire based survey of 30 schemes, run by 12 separate organisations, that provided overnight breaks with host families. It presents information from the survey about the hosts, the guests, and other issues. It concludes with a discussion of the findings, and makes recommendations for policy makers, managers and further research.
The handbook of intellectual disability and clinical psychology practice
- Editors:
- CARR Alan, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 965p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The book is divided into seven sections, which cover conceptual frameworks, assessment frameworks and intervention frameworks, and the specific problems that arise in infancy and early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Chapters combine discussion of the theoretical and empirical issues with practical considerations. The authors incorporate detailed practice descriptions throughout, which will allow clinicians to use the book as a step-by-step guide to clinical work. Practice exercises are also included where relevant to aid skills development.
Investigation into the service for people with learning disabilities provided by Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust: summary
- Author:
- HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Healthcare Commission
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report details how outmoded, institutionalised care had led to the neglect of people with learning disabilities at Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust. The report described some of the environments in which people lived as impoverished and completely unsatisfactory. Staff were not properly trained or supported to provide an acceptable level of care, and inadequate levels of staff meant that people were often left day in day out with little to occupy their time. There were failures in management and leadership at all levels, from managers to the trusts board.
Investigation into the service for people with learning disabilities provided by Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust
- Author:
- HEALTHCARE COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Healthcare Commission
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 100p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report details how outmoded, institutionalised care had led to the neglect of people with learning disabilities at Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust. The report described some of the environments in which people lived as impoverished and completely unsatisfactory. Staff were not properly trained or supported to provide an acceptable level of care, and inadequate levels of staff meant that people were often left day in day out with little to occupy their time. There were failures in management and leadership at all levels, from managers to the trusts board.
Self-advocates have the last say on friendship
- Authors:
- McVILLY Keith R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 21(7), December 2006, pp.693-708.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study reports the friendship experiences and aspirations of adults with intellectual disabilities. The findings of a larger study were reviewed by an expert group of self-advocates with intellectual disability. The expert group confirmed some of the interpretation of the original data and expanded on issues. Friendship is established as an issue of concern among adults with intellectual disability. Consequently, policy makers and service providers need to be intentional about providing support for friendships. Participants asserted a positive self identity of being a person with intellectual disability and how this could be a basis for friendship. Also, people with intellectual disability demonstrated how they should be considered experts in their own life experience and how they can be effectively included in the formulation, implementation, analysis and review of research.
Decoding Valuing People
- Authors:
- BURTON Mark, KAGAN Carolyn
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 21(4), June 2006, pp.299-313.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Government policy frameworks on the support of disabled people can often be difficult to ‘read’, as they contain contradictory elements that simultaneously support and confront social processes that create inequalities and oppression. Valuing People (VP), the UK government’s policy framework for learning disability (intellectual disability), provides such a context for work that enhances learning disabled people’s inclusion in community and society, and to reverse some of the systemic disadvantage they have experienced. However, as an uneasy amalgam of the progressive and the neoliberal, the romantic and the practical, it has been difficult to evaluate in order to use its opportunities and minimise its dangers. This article attempts to decode VP in terms of ideologies in human services, and the current New Labour policy mix. Its emphases on Person Centred Planning, Direct Payments and employment will be analysed to try to establish what VP means, and to suggest more adequate priorities. This analysis might also be relevant to other sectors where there is a similar problem of decoding their particular policy context.
From ‘cage beds’ to inclusion: the long road for individuals with intellectual disability in the Czech Republic
- Authors:
- VANN Barbara H., SISKA Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 21(5), August 2006, pp.425-439.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In the Czech Republic, individuals with intellectual disabilities continue to be institutionalized in large, remote, state run institutions and as a result are isolated from community interaction. Some practices associated with these institutions are coming to be seen as human rights violations. Although non-governmental organizations (NGOs) offer alternatives to institutionalization, demand for such services exceeds supply. Czech legal structure hinders NGO funding. Large state institutions continue to be built.
Equal treatment: closing the gap: information for practitioners
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report probed the experience of people with mental health problems and/or learning disabilities of primary care services in England and Wales (1) after international research showed that these two groups were at higher risk of serious physical health problems. From December 2006, the NHS – including Primary Care Trusts in England and Local Health Boards in Wales - will come under the Disability Equality Duty which places them under an obligation to ensure that their policies and practices do not discriminate, and do promote equal opportunities for disabled people. But a wide range of current practices, identified by the investigation, could clearly breach this duty. The investigation provides important new evidence that people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems are more likely to experience major illness, to develop serious health conditions at an earlier age and to die of them sooner than other people. Yet they are also less likely to receive some of the important evidence-based treatments and health checks than others with the same condition but without a mental health condition or learning disability. They also face real barriers to accessing services.