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The use of photovoice with people with intellectual disabilities: reflections, challenges and opportunities
- Authors:
- POVEE Kate, BISHOP Brian J., ROBERTS Lynne D.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 29(6), 2014, pp.893-907.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Photovoice is part of the growing use of participatory research approaches with people with intellectual disabilities. In this paper we explore the process, opportunities and challenges associated with the use of photovoice with people with intellectual disabilities, illustrated through a research project entitled ‘This Is Me’. Photovoice requires researchers to share power and control in the research process and to tolerate uncertainty. Large investments in time and money are also required. These challenges, however, are outweighed by the benefits of the use of photovoice with people with intellectual disabilities. Photovoice creates a space where people with intellectual disabilities can meaningfully participate and exert control in the research process, and as such is an empowering experience. As a participatory research approach, photovoice is accessible and offers the opportunity for people with intellectual disabilities to develop new skills, confidence and experience inclusiveness in their own terms. (Publisher abstract)
Learning from the experts: people with learning difficulties training and learning from each other
- Authors:
- WEEKS Louise, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 34(1), March 2006, pp.49-55.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article discusses a training project run by Central England People First (CEPF) to help other people with learning difficulties to learn how to be trainers. The National User Training Development Project, was funded by the Department of Health. The training team designed a 2-day programme, and asked people in different parts of the country to try it out. Eight organizations agreed, including a care village, another People First group and two social services departments. Eighty people with learning difficulties and support people took part. The project team told them about what training is for, and how to organize it. They also had the chance to try out their own ideas. They practiced 'role plays', 'speaking up', doing quizzes and using video recorders. At the end, the people who took part filled in evaluation sheets, so that the team could find out if the training was useful. Most people said that they had enjoyed it, and that they had learned something. The article concludes that: people with learning difficulties can be good trainers, because they are experts about services and the things that are important in their lives; and that using training can be a good way of helping people with learning difficulties to speak out about how they want to be treated.
Permission to speak?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, November 2002, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Discusses what makes service users with learning difficulties feel empowered.
Discerning the appropriate role and status of Quality of Life assessment for persons with intellectual disability: a reply to Cummins
- Authors:
- AGER Alastair, HATTON Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 12(4), 1999, pp.335-339.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Identifies three major issues arising from Cummings' (1997) review of quality of life (QOL) assessment for persons with intellectual disability. First, Cummins' analysis of pre-existing measures relevant to the analysis of QOL is argued to be inadequate. Second, the relationship between 'objective' and 'subjective' measures of life experience is proposed to be more complex than that implied by the earlier review. Third, discussion of the appropriate role and status of attempts to measure QOL indicates such measurement may be more empowering of service providers than service users.
The role of groupwork in research with people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- WALMSLEY J.
- Journal article citation:
- Groupwork, 3(1), 1990, pp.49-64.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Based on experiences of a pilot study which included interviews in an adult training centre; discusses the potential of such work to empower people to have a role in planning for themselves.
The illusion of power
- Author:
- RIDDINGTON Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.3.07, 2007, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
It is now almost six years since the establishment of learning disability partnership boards. Research has found that the partnership between public sector managers and lay members is not on equal terms as defined in the white paper Valuing People. Where primary care trusts cascade learning disability development funding to partnership boards it is possible to provide opportunities for people with learning disabilities to allocate money to enable "bottom up" initiatives to be supported.
Caregivers as managers of subjective wellbeing: a homeostatic perspective
- Author:
- CUMMINS Robert A.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 18(4), December 2005, pp.335-344.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper proposes that the adequacy of service delivery and caregiving to people who are disabled should be assessed using two criteria. One is the objective circumstance of living, which should be at a standard acceptable to the community at large. The other is a level of subjective wellbeing (SWB) within the normal range. This latter criterion is based on an understanding that SWB is homeostatically managed to lie normally within a narrow range of values. Results found that people who have a disability are more likely than usual to have a fragile homeostatic system because of the additional life challenges imposed by their disability. It concludes that the role of a caregiver is to provide resources and protection against strong threats to homeostasis, thereby ensuring that the person in their care has a normal-range level of SWB.
Key considerations
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.6.01, May 2001, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government white paper on learning difficulties promises that service users have more choice about where they live, but are local authorities ready for the challenge. Looks at existing provision and how services may develop.
Speaking up for yourself: description and evaluation of an assertiveness training group for people with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- WESTON Clive, WENT Fleur
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27(3), 1999, pp.110-115.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Current service philosophies place emphasis on service users making choices for themselves. Partly in response to this, practitioners have attempted to help service users develop skills of assertiveness. This paper describes an assertiveness training group for people with learning disabilities, and includes a range of outcome measures at intervals of up to 16 months from the first session. Modest increases in assertive behaviour are reported for the majority of participants. The importance of seeing assertiveness training in the wider context of service user empowerment is emphasised.
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.