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Self-advocacy, civil rights and the social model of disability: final research report
- Authors:
- GOODLEY Dan, ARMSTRONG Derrick
- Publisher:
- University of Leeds. Centre for Disability Studies
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This study examined the self-advocacy of people with the label of ‘learning difficulties’ as enacted within self-advocacy groups and accounted for in personal narratives. This very process illuminated a number of significant concerns in relation to the doing of disability research by disabled researchers. The theoretical, political and cultural background to this study can be broadly split into two areas.
What's in a label?
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.2-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Discusses the use of labels in the self-advocacy movement.
Empowerment, self-advocacy and resilience
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(4), December 2005, pp.333-343.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Place of publication:
- London
This article critiques the relationship between the aims of ‘learning disability’ policy and the realities of the self-advocacy movement. A previous study found that self-advocacy can be defined as the public recognition of the resilience of people with learning difficulties. In the current climate of Valuing People, partnership boards and ‘user empowerment’, understanding resilience is crucial to the support of authentic forms of self-advocacy. This article aims to address such a challenge. First, understandings of resilience in relation to self-empowerment and self-advocacy are briefly considered. Second, the current policy climate and service provision rhetoric are critically explored. Third, it is argued that we need to recognize how self-advocacy groups celebrate resilience through a variety of social and identity-shifting actions. How current policy responds to these aspects of resilience is questioned. It is concluded that the lived reality of self-advocacy needs to be foregrounded in any attempt to understand empowerment.
Disability arts against exclusion: people with learning difficulties and their performing arts
- Authors:
- GOODLEY Dan, MOORE Michele
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 213p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
This book makes the case for the importance of people with learning disabilities taking part in performing arts, with particular emphasis on drama and dance. Examples of good practice, in particular dance and drama companies, are set alongside a review of disability arts in the wider context of debates about inclusion and human rights.