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Independent living: the right to choose
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.2.96, 1996, p.1.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
More and more people with learning difficulties are making heard their views as they progress gradually towards the independent lives they crave. The author looks at the achievements of people with learning difficulties, and the obstacles which face them in their quest for choice and control over their lives.
Opportunity knocks
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.6.92, 1992, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how and why the USA leads the way in ensuring rights for disabled people.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 9, April 2000, pp.28-30.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The difficult task of balancing the right of people with learning difficulties to live in the community with the risks involved in doing so has exercised professionals in the field for many years. Describes recent research which examined the development of policies and practices in risk assessment and risk management.
No empowerment, no comment
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.6.99, 1999, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The UK self-advocacy movement for people with learning difficulties is burgeoning and service providers are beginning to take notice. Explains how the decibel level has risen.
Losing out on parenthood
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.4.93, 1993, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Despite the Children Act, there is often no partnership with parents with learning difficulties, they find they are not been given support or counselling and may even risk losing their children. Looks at this concern.
Innovations in advocacy and empowerment for people with intellectual disabilities
- Editor:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Lisieux Hall Publications
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 279p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chorley, Lancs.
Focuses on advocacy and empowerment for people with learning difficulties. Includes chapters on: innovations in advocacy and empowerment; changing systems; self advocacy; the development of the international self advocacy movement; the impact of accessible information on people with learning difficulties; involving people with learning difficulties in the work of a public policy research institute; participation and empowerment through continuing education; empowerment through oral history and personal stories; setting up and running a health advocacy group for women; self advocacy by black people with learning difficulties; empowerment for older people; involving people with profound and multiple disabilities in person centred planning; involving people with learning difficulties in staff selection and recruitment; direct payments; partnerships in policy making; crime and the law; and helping people with learning difficulties to shape services.