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Intentional communities: interesting social experimental or ghettos?
- Author:
- GROVER Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 10(1), July 1996, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Intentional communities based around the arts, small scale manufacturing, spiritual or personal development are appreciated for their energy and creativity. The author asks why these responses should change when they include people with disabilities.
Members of each other: building community in company with people with developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- O'BRIEN John, O'BRIEN Connie Lyle
- Publisher:
- Inclusion Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 140p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Seeks to unravel the complexity of building supportive networks and communities, where all people can live together. The book addresses the complex issues surrounding the problems of learning to 'welcome' people with disabilities and learning difficulties into regular lives and communities.
The isolation of 'villages'
- Author:
- COLLINS Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(1), September 1996, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author, Director of Values into Action, describes the findings of the recent report, which rejects the notion that village communities are cost effective. Stresses that people with learning difficulties have the right to live non-institutionalised lives in the community, and that transforming of mental handicap hospitals into village communities would amount to little more that the erection of new signboards.
Which way now?
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.8.96, 1996, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Village communities for people with learning difficulties are again at the centre of a fierce debate about their effectiveness. The author talks to the leading exponents for and against these communities.
Aging parents of adult children with mental retardation: is age a factor in their perception of burdens or gratifications?
- Authors:
- MCDERMOTT Suzanne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 27(1/2), 1996, pp.133-148.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article describes a study of ageing parents of adult children with learning difficulties. The challenges faced by ageing parents are discussed from the perspective of life-span developmental psychology. Examines whether there are differences based on age of parent in caregiver burdens and caregiver gratifications. No significant differences on the basis of age were found and analyses of the results suggest that age of parent may be less helpful in understanding the experiences of life-long caregiving than family context and history. Recommendations for practice and policy are discussed.
Informal care networks of older adults with an intellectual disability
- Authors:
- PROSSER Helen, MOSS Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 9(1), 1996, pp.17-30.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes a study of people with intellectual disability over the age of 40 years who were still living with relatives in the family home. Previous studies have revealed that there exist different types of social networks and that identifying network type and available informal support is important for planning effective service delivery. The main focus of this investigation was on the structure and characteristics of informal support networks and the pattern of support that occurred.
Experiences of an integration link scheme: the perspectives of pupils with severe learning difficulties and their mainstream peers
- Author:
- BEVERIDGE Sally
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(1), 1996, pp.9-19.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Warnock Committee (1978) was of the view that the education of children with special educational needs would be enhanced by closer working links between mainstream and special schools and recommended that these should be established. This paper explores the perspectives of pupils involved in an integration link. Data from the mainstream pupils and the special school group demonstrated a generally positive acceptance of the scheme. However, profiles of individual pupils from the special school group revealed significant variations in the ways they respond to the opportunity for interaction with their mainstream peers. This article argues that if integration schemes are to promote successful interactive experiences for all the pupils involved, then aspects of individual diversity need to be taken into account.
The paradox of the quality of life of adults with learning difficulties
- Author:
- BANFALVY Csaba
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(4), December 1996, pp.569-577.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper is based on an empirical survey conducted in 1995 in Hungary. Data came from a stratified random sample of about 1300 adults with learning difficulties from all over the country. The author combines qualitative and quantitative methods in analysing the quality of life of people with learning difficulties and takes into consideration that their quality of life is as much determined by sociological factors as by the biologically and educationally understood level of difficulties. The paper shows that success in education and in the labour market does not equate to successful social integration. The quality of life of adults with learning difficulties is sometimes better in social circumstances which are less favourable for high achievement in education and in the labour market. Though the people from more privileged backgrounds may seem to lead a more active and social everyday life than those with working class origins they are still considerably less integrated in their social environments.
One and two year outcomes for adults with learning disabilities discharged to the community
- Authors:
- DONNELLY M, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 168, May 1996, pp.598-606.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Looks at a study which assessed long-stay patients with learning disabilities in hospital and 12 and 24 months after discharge in Northern Ireland, to examine the effects of relocation. Results found that there was little or no change in people's low pre-discharge skill levels. There were also few changes in the pattern of activities or the social networks of people 12 months later. Little or no further change in outcomes was reported 24 months after discharge. Concludes that the implementation of the deinstitutionalisation policy in Northern Ireland has been limited by the predominance of residential and nursing homes and the lack of 'ordinary' accommodation. Argues that there is a need for purchasers and providers to give more attention to the ways in which the principles of normalisation could be incorporated in the process of contracting and delivering services.