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A model of substitute decision-making
- Authors:
- CARLSON Glenys, WILSON Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 51(3), September 1998, pp.17-23.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Substitute decisions are those made on behalf of people who are not able to make decisions for themselves. From an ethical point of view it is important that substitute decision-making involving another person's health and well-being be approached methodically. The decision-making model outlined in this article was developed during a study which investigated substitute menstrual management decision-making for young women who had intellectual disabilities and high support needs. The decision-making literature provided relevant theoretical bases for structuring the components of the model. On the basis of the model, a definition of informed substitute decision-making in proposed.
The OK way to keep track of client's health needs
- Author:
- MATTHEWS David
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 22.4.98, 1998, pp.52-53.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on how the lack of a systematic means of looking at the health needs of people with learning disabilities led to the creation of a new assessment tool.
Self-reported training needs of supported employment programme managers in South Australia
- Authors:
- FORD J., FORD C.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(2), June 1998, pp.171-182.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Supported employment offers a variety of economic and social opportunities for the employees who receive support services and presents challenges for the professional staff who provide those services. Reports on a survey of supported employment programme managers in South Australia to identify their priorities for training. Needs identified by the respondents were focused on areas of systems development and evaluation, and technological skills. Findings are discussed in terms of training delivery and implications for further research.
Friendship skills and opportunities among people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- WALL Karen
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
Research study looking at the importance of friendship in the lives of people with learning difficulties and at how social workers can help individuals improve their friendship skills and ensure that their friendship needs are being met.
A blinkered approach to sight
- Author:
- LEVY Gill
- Journal article citation:
- Values into Action, 91, 1998, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
Looks at the problems created for people with learning difficulties by other people's attitudes to their eye care.
Invisible to themselves or negotiating identity? The interactional management of 'being intellectually disabled'
- Authors:
- RAPLEY Mark, KIERNAN Patrick, ANTAKI Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(5), November 1998, pp.807-827.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses how there seems to be a professional, and perhaps societal, consensus that the identity label of 'intellectual disabled' is an aversive even 'toxic' one. Parents' concerns over the toxicity of the label led them to bring up their children in ignorance of their disabilities, and thus produce people who are 'invisible to themselves'. Drawing on work in discursive psychology, the authors argue that the social identity of 'being intellectually disabled', and its management in talk, is considerably more fluid and dynamic than the static characteristic of self implied by the construct of an all-embracing, 'toxic', identity. A person with an intellectual disability can, like any other, avow or disavow such an identity according to the demands of the situation in which they find themselves.
A meaningful partnership
- Author:
- STOBBS Philippa
- Journal article citation:
- Coordinate, 68, November 1998, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- National Early Years Network
Reports on how some parental partnership schemes for parents of children with special educational needs have sought to forge links with the parents of younger children, and considers how parent partnership schemes and early years professionals might work more closely together.
Meeting the health needs of people with learning disabilities: a comparative study
- Authors:
- NIGHTINGALE Jim, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Care, 2(2), October 1998, pp.60-62.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
As members of the community, people with learning disabilities are assumed to receive all but specialist treatment from their local primary health care services. There is evidence to suggest this is not happening. In contrast to this view, this article reports on the findings of a unique comparative study which suggests that people with learning disabilities are no more poorly served than their local communities in general.
Educational programmes for children with special needs in Jordan
- Author:
- HADIDI Muna S.Z.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(2), June 1998, pp.147-154.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes the development of educational programmes for children with special need in Jordan. An overview of historical highlights and main problems and needs is presented. Provides information about current concerns and trends related to development of special education in Jordan, training of special education teachers, family problems, early intervention, and attitudes to mainstreaming.
Whose fight is it?
- Author:
- LEWIS Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.3.98, 1998, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to parents of children with learning difficulties who find themselves torn between their own needs and their responsibilities to their children.