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Home at last: how two young women with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities achieved their own home
- Authors:
- FITTON Pat, O'BRIEN Carol, WILLSON Jean
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 205p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Follows attempts to help two young women with disabilities achieve a home of their own, with 24 hour support. Two of the authors are their parents. Contains practical information for parents, social workers, and carers, on planning and financing, setting up a home support scheme, and making it work successfully. Gives an insight into the practical realities of new patterns of living in the community for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.
Making the right start: a practical manual to help break the news to families when their baby has been born with a disability
- Author:
- JUPP Sheila
- Publisher:
- Opened Eye Publications
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 58p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Hyde
Including all children: finding out about the experiences of children with communication and/or cognitive impairments
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 17(5), November 2003, pp.337-348.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Practitioners and researchers have made progress, in recent years, in seeking the views of children and young people. Less progress has been made in seeking the views of young people with significant communication and/or cognitive impairments. Drawing on the experience of three research projects and one Best Value review, this article details the lessons learnt, and action required, in order to find out about the experiences of this important group of children and young people.
Personal assistance for people with intellectual impairments: experiences and dilemmas
- Author:
- ASKHEIM Ole Petter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(3), May 2003, pp.325-339.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The article gives an account of how personal assistance is adapted to people with intellectual impairments in Norway and the experiences with the arrangement for this target group. Discusses the challenges and dilemmas of including people with intellectual impairments in the target group for personal assistance, since people other than the user as a rule fill the role as manager of the service. Special attention is paid to the parents' role since they often act as managers on behalf of their sons/daughters. Furthermore, the assistants' role is discussed and the importance of how they meet the users. Finally, there is a discussion of the consequences the extension of personal assistance to intellectually impaired users might have both for personal assistance as a service and for the ordinary care services.
Aging and developmental disability: current research, programming and practice implications
- Editors:
- HAMMEL Joy, NOCHAJSKI Susan
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 100p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
This book explores research findings and practice implications pertaining to normative and disability-related aging experiences and issues. The book discusses the effectiveness of specific interventions targeted toward aging adults with intellectual disabilities such as Down’s syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism, and epilepsy.
Using values to change learning disability services: a context for the National Strategy
- Authors:
- ELIATAMBY Anna, HAMPTON Kerri
- Publisher:
- Office for Public Management
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This monograph provides an understanding of what is required to manage change in services for people with learning difficulties. It provides an analysis of the new national strategy for learning disability and an introduction to strategic planning, and an explanation of the concept of building resilient communities to transform services for people with learning difficulties.
People with profound retardation and multiple handicaps attending schools or social education centres: interim report on the needs of their parents, foster parents and relatives
- Authors:
- HOGG J., et al
- Publisher:
- Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 110p., tables, illus., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Snoezelen: its effects on concentration and responsiveness in people with profound multiple handicaps
- Authors:
- ASHBY Mark, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 58(7), July 1995, pp.303-307.
- Publisher:
- Sage
An initial investigation into the effects of Snoezelen on concentration and responsiveness in people who have profound and multiple handicaps. The results suggest that all the subjects except one, who failed to score, responded in some way with improvements in scores. The improvements in concentration were significant for two subjects, moderate for four and minimal for one.
Broking a deal
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.12.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Service brokerage is an innovative way of meeting the individual needs of disabled people. The user is put firmly in control and the service broker helps them decide what support they need and guides them through the labyrinth of provision. If the required service does not exist the broker sets about helping to set it up. Looks at the work of the Avon Service Brokerage Project.
Learning to help : training for respite carers
- Author:
- ROBINSON C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 2.6.88, 1988, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the needs of, and provision of, training for people giving respite care for children with severe handicaps.