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Twelve steps to learning
- Author:
- JACOBSEN Yola
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
People with learning difficulties have produced their own charter on education and learning.
No more obstacles to casting that vote
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(1), July 2000, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reviews the Act, Representation of the Persons Act, which will make it easier for disabled people to vote.
A standard bearer for progress
- Author:
- HUBER Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.2.00, 2000, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Profiles Evelyne Rank-Petruzziello, who has been appointed commissioner on the Disability Rights Commission.
'Who decides?'
- Author:
- HOLMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 13(3), January 2000, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The Lord Chancellor's Department has now produced 'Making Decisions', a policy statement outlining the Government's proposals for making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults and its response to 'Who Decides?', the consultation paper published in 1997. The author takes a critical look at the document.
Crossing boundaries: change and continuity in the history of learning disability
- Editors:
- BRIGHAM Lindsay, et al
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 203p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Kidderminster
Explores the history of learning difficulties through analysis and discussion from researchers and self advocates.
The same as you?
- Author:
- KERR Linda
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 277, November 2000, p.7.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
Discusses the recent strategic review of learning disability services in Scotland.
Why rights are never enough: rights, intellectual disability and understanding
- Authors:
- YOUNG Damon A., QUIBELL Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.747-764.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In order to address obvious inequities, rights have been utilised to provide the 'basic' material needs for many groups. Whilst this brings some groups/individuals up to a perceived minimum standard, it unfortunately fails to address the misunderstandings from which the inequities originally stemmed. Via a sociological and philosophical exploration of rights-based strategies relating to intellectual disability, this Australian article provides a fuller exploration of the issues surrounding this problem, and suggests some alternatives. These alternatives are concerned specifically with a broadening of rights to facilitate understanding, rather than simple 'protection' from harm and/or the provision of material needs.
Should sex have legal boundaries
- Author:
- BRAMMER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 5(3), August 2000, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The link between law and the sexual health of people with learning disabilities is not immediately apparent. This article focuses on two areas where law imposes restrictive limits under the guise of the need for protection. Whether this can be justified as appropriate is questioned, and it may be argued that discrimination operates to deny full opportunity for sexuality.
Philosophical and ethical problems in mental handicap
- Author:
- BYRNE P
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 188p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Surveys the conceptual, ethical, social and religious issues which arise from the fact that many human beings have learning difficulties. Explores the definition of learning disability and its relations to IQ and the scientific study of intelligence. Examines the contention that the notion of mental handicap has o objective foundation but is merely the agent of oppression, and analyses policies and practices in paediatric medicine in relation to people with learning difficulties.
Prenatal testing and disability rights
- Editors:
- PARENS Erik, ASCH Adrienne
- Publisher:
- Georgetown University Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 387p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal care. However, prenatal tests have been critised by the disability rights community as they are used primarily to decide to abort a fetus that would have been born with a disability. Arguably, such tests reinforce discrimination against and misconceptions about people with disabilities. This collection of papers by health care professionals, academics and members of the disability community debate the implications of prenatal testing for disabled people and for parent child relationships generally.