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Early intervention: planning futures, shaping years
- Author:
- McCONKEY Roy
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap Research, 7(1), 1994, pp.4-15.
- Publisher:
- BIMH Publications
The achievements of early interventions during the last quarter of a century are built on family-based services with a whole-child focus. Their influence has been far-reaching but knowing what needs to be done increases the frustrations in making effective interventions available to all families and children, irrespective of where they live. Among the service transformations reviewed are the shift in focus from children to families; the recasting of service personnel from specialists to family supporters; the development of therapies into child-led transactions as the preferred means of promoting development, and new approaches to evaluating service effectiveness.
Innovations in evaluating services for people with intellectual disabilities
- Editor:
- McCONKEY Roy
- Publisher:
- Lisieux Hall Publications
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 186p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Chorley, Lancs.
The contributors to this volume point out that measuring the measurable is no guarantee that those variables exert a primary influence on service quality for people with intellectual disabilities. Other factors which are less tangible are needed to produce this outcome. Topics discussed include: involving service users; common sense evaluation; service costs; empowering front line staff; and the evaluator's role in developing quality.
Future aspirations of students with severe learning disabilities and of their parents on leaving special schooling
- Authors:
- SMYTH Marisa, McCONKEY Roy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31(1), 2003, pp.54-59.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The majority of school-leavers over 2 years from two special schools in Belfast were individually interviewed as were their parents. The almost unanimous wish of the young people to have a job was not matched by the parents, although nearly half of the parents did express the wish that they would have at least part-time work. The majority of young people and the parents envisaged living with the family albeit for different reasons. However, there was a strong emphasis on fostering the young person's independence and living with friends. Consequently, only a minority of families mentioned their son or daughter moving into traditional residential care settings. It is argued that it is not just the availability of services that need to increase in order to meet the aspirations of the young people and their parents; major changes are also needed in their form and function.
Concepts and controversies in services for people with mental handicap
- Editors:
- McCONKEY Roy, McGINLEY Patrick
- Publisher:
- Woodlands Centre, St. Michael's House
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 339p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Renmore
Discusses a wide range of issues : client terminology cycles; gender and mental handicap; voluntary fund-raising - a disservice?; sexuality; religion; community care; special education; planning services.