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The HARC challenging behaviour project: report 4: experience and views of parents caring for people with learning disabilities living in the family home
- Authors:
- KIEMAN Chris, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester. Hester Adrian Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 31p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
In 1994 the Department of Health commissioned the Hester Adrian Research Centre at the University of Manchester and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York to undertake a series of projects to investigate aspects of challenging behaviour shown by people with learning disability. These projects extended workv previously undertaken at the Hester Adrian Research Centre. In particular they built upon a study of the prevaence of challenging behaviour in the areas served by seven District Health Authorities in the North West of England in 1988.
Family placement schemes offering long-term care for adults with learning disabilities: a review of the evaluation literature
- Author:
- DAGNAN Dave
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(4), September 1997, pp.593-604.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Reviews evaluation studies of family placement schemes offering long-term care for adults with learning disabilities in Britain. The model is widely used, but there is very little research describing such schemes. It is suggested that evaluation is made difficult because the goals of placement schemes for people with learning disabilities are not made clear in the literature. A theoretical structure for education based upon an ecological view of quality of life is suggested and research is reviewed within this model. Where possible, comparisons are made to American literature on similar models of care.
The power to parent
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.6.97, 1997, p.28.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Upholding the rights of people with learning difficulties means supporting them in living their lives to the full. The author visits a project which is supporting parents with learning difficulties as they bring up their children.
The impact of self-advocacy on families
- Author:
- MITCHELL Paula
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(1), February 1997, pp.43-56.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The impact of self-advocacy on families of people with learning difficulties has rarely been investigated. This article argues that adulthood is central. The meanings attached to self-advocacy by people with learning difficulties are examined to support this, and the family context explored to discover the likely experiences and influences which will condition the reception for self-advocacy. The early findings of the research - from discussions with self-advocacy groups - are presented. Concludes that self-advocacy will impact on families and for this impact will exhibit itself in a variety of ways. Because of the experiences and conditioning of families and people with learning difficulties the impact is expected to be complicated.
Family fortunes
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.1.97, 1997, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
People with learning difficulties have a better chance of finding out what services and benefits are on offer, thanks to a new MENCAP family advice scheme.
Exceptional childhoods, unexceptional children: growing up with parents who have learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Publisher:
- Family Policy Studies Centre
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 40p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report presenting an overview of the findings from a study of now-adult children who grew up in a family where at least one of the parents had learning difficulties.
When parents relinquish care: informal support networks of older people with intellectual disability
- Author:
- BIGBY Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(4), 1997, pp.333-344.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Adults with intellectual disability lack the two key providers of informal support in later life, children and a spouse. Using semi-structured interviews this qualitative study examines the informal support networks of 62 older people with intellectual disability who had left parental care after mid-life. Findings indicate that, for this subgroup of older people, normative family roles such as 'protector' and 'facilitator' were fulfilled by informal network members despite the absence spouses or children.
Improving services for South Asian adults with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- HATTON Chris, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Focus, 22, October 1997, pp.1-9.
- Publisher:
- RNIB
Discusses the results of a survey of Asian families in the North-West of England with a person who has learning difficulties. The aims were to identify the circumstances and support needs of the families, and to find out how effectively these needs are met and how services could be improved.
Early intervention and identification: finding the family
- Author:
- CARPENTER Barry
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 11(3), September 1997, pp.173-182.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Recent legislation, both in the UK and abroad, has underlined the need for strong interdisciplinary approaches to meet the diversity of special educational needs that exist in our child population. This multidisciplinary approach necessitates a change of focus. It recognises the parent, with their child, as central, implicit and fundamental to the early intervention team, and endorses their right to request appropriate access to services. Discusses how this change in approach to families of children with special educational needs will challenge some professionals and demand a radical reappraisal of the structure of their role and their style of delivery of early intervention.
A stitch in time
- Authors:
- MILNE Alisoun, MORGAN Dennis
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.7.97, 1997, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In an effort to direct limited resources to where they are needed, Berkshire social services invested in preventive services. The authors explain how this has helped vulnerable people in the county.