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Disability and discourse: analysing inclusive conversation with people with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Val
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 257p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what happens during the everyday encounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the other people with whom they interact. It explores conversations and encounters from the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, and introduces the established methodology of Conversation Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of students, researchers and practitioners. The book adopts a discursive approach which looks at how people with intellectual disabilities use talk in real-life situations, while showing how such talk can be supported and developed, and follows people into the meetings and discussions that take place in self-advocacy and research contexts. It then offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research.
Patterns of culture and power after 'The Great Release': the history of movements of subculture and empowerment among Danish people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- BYLOV Frank
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(3), September 2006, pp.139-145.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article discusses the history of self-advocacy in Denmark. It also gives some information about how services for people with learning difficulties in Denmark have changed over the past 100 years. The author discusses the different types of self-advocacy groups that have grown in Denmark. He describes how these movements have developed in 'generations'. Three 'generations' are identified: movements of cultural role transgression; movements of self-advocacy; and movements of political empowerment. The author draws on theory to help explain some of the developments that self-advocacy groups in Denmark have been through during their history.
Learning disability partnership boards: making participation real?
- Author:
- NICOLL Tricia
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 12(6), December 2004, pp.36-42.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Considers the role and function of learning disability partnership boards, focusing on how they have developed their skills in working in partnership with people with learning disabilities (self-advocates) and using examples from self-advocates themselves.
One for all - all for one! An account of the joint fight for human rights by Flemish Musketters and their Tinker Ladies
- Authors:
- GOETS Griet, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 32(2), June 2004, pp.54-64.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Musketeer book One for All – All for One! A joint fight for human rights written by Onze Nieuwe Toekomst is a disclosure of oral accounts of people with the label of learning difficulties. The Musketeer book is an articulation of their individual and collective politics of resistance. With this collection of stories activists and their allies hope to bring tangible shifts in beliefs and attitudes in disabling society. In this article, the Head Musketeer Danny and his right-hand Musketeer Ludo reflect upon their relational perspective on the process of (self-) empowerment with their Tinker Ladies. Our experience unfolds like walking a high wire. Our Flemish perspective reveals a profound awareness of power dynamics in an intensely felt cooperative research process.
The beliefs, values and principles of self-advocacy
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF SOCIETIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL HANDICAP
- Publisher:
- Brookline Books
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Booklet setting out values and principles for self-advocacy. Also contains sections on: support and the role of a support person; empowerment; institutions; and stories of good practice from around the world.
Following through to the end: the use of inclusive strategies to analyse and interpret data in participatory action research with individuals with intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- KRAMER Jessica M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 24(3), May 2011, pp.263-273.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Scholars have called for research approaches that actively include and are driven by people with intellectual disabilities. However, the actual procedures and key strategies used by researchers and people with intellectual disabilities to access, analyse and interpret research data have been scarcely documented in the literature. This paper presents a detailed example from a participatory action research (PAR) project to demonstrate how people with intellectual disabilities can be included in the process of data analysis and interpretation. The PAR project comprised collaboration between university researchers and a self-advocacy organisation called People First and aimed to increase the group’s capacity for self-advocacy. The university researchers presented numerical data in 3 visual formats for analysis. Seventeen People First members analysed and interpreted the data using a modified focus group approach. All members participated in data analysis, but not all members participated in data interpretation. Members’ interpretations suggest that the group felt an increased sense of empowerment and heightened awareness as a result of their increased capacity to run a meeting and involvement in the PAR cycle of action and reflection. The findings suggest that strategies such as visual representation of data, group analysis, and familiarity with data collection tools foster an inclusive process of analysis and interpretation.
Leadership development of individuals with developmental disabilities in the self-advocacy movement
- Author:
- CALDWELL J.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54(11), November 2010, pp.1004-1014.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study builds upon previous life story work to explore leadership development in individuals within the US self-advocacy movement. The author believes that a better understanding of this process may assist with supporting the movement and leadership development of young people with disabilities. In-depth qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 adult leaders in the self-advocacy movement; purposeful snowball sampling was used to ensure that a diverse group of leaders was involved. Four major themes and factors associated with leadership development were identified: disability oppression and resistance; environmental supports and relationships; leadership skills; and advanced leadership opportunities. Each factor is discussed in turn. The author concludes that, while the findings of the study may not be generalisable to all leaders with developmental disabilities, they suggest broad factors that may influence leadership development, practical approaches for intervention and considerations for future research.
The views and experiences of people with intellectual disabilities concerning advocacy
- Authors:
- LLEWELLYN Penny, NORTHWAY Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 12(3), September 2008, pp.213-228.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article discusses the first stage of a grounded theory study in which people with intellectual disabilities participated in focus groups to explore their definitions of advocacy and their advocacy support needs. Participants' ideas were influenced by their situation, the availability and type of support offered, and their relationships with supporters. Many different definitions of advocacy were revealed which were classified as reactive or proactive advocacy at micro, meso or macro level. The aim of advocacy was seen as empowerment, but this occurred only when support was readily available, concentrated on people's abilities, and facilitated opportunities for them to exert maximum possible control over their lives.
Taking the power: from oppression towards independence
- Author:
- People First
- Publisher:
- People First
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 253p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Self-advocacy by persons with developmental disabilities was unthinkable three decades ago. Today, persons with developmental disabilities are speaking out and organizing themselves to seek better, non-institutional living situations, social and political equality, and decent jobs with reasonable pay. This collection by self-advocates themselves, provides background about the origins of the self-advocacy in their own words.
A global movement
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.11.02, 2002, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how to ensure that self-advocacy for people with learning difficulties continues to develop.