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Enhancing self-esteem: a self-esteem training package for individuals with disabilities
- Authors:
- HAGILIASSIS Nick, GULBENKOGLU Hrepsime
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 125p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd
This book is tailored specifically to meet the needs of adults with disabilities. It is a resource that provides relevant, cognitively-suitable and age-appropriate information and exercises to aid trainers working with adults with physical and multiple disabilities, and is suitable for people with mild intellectual disability and severe communication impairment. The material is designed to be used in 10 two-hour sessions that explore skills that will help to develop and maintain self-esteem. Each session is fully scripted, with comprehensive instructions for the trainer and photocopiable hand-outs.
Speak for yourself
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.11.05, 2005, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Keynote speakers at conferences on disability issues tend not to be disabled. The author reports on a consultancy service in Hampshire, All Inclusive, which is to be owned and managed by people with disabilities and will provide keynote speakers for conferences, disability awareness training and access audits.
Special training for special needs: a competency-based training programme for personnel working with young people with special needs
- Authors:
- WOLFE Barbara L., PETTY Virginia G., McNELLIS Kathleen
- Publisher:
- Simon and Schuster International
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 1v.looseleaf
- Place of publication:
- Hemel Hempstead
American programme of study which can be used in a variety of training settings.
LIFESTYLES; An approach to training staff in normalisation principles
- Authors:
- BROWN H., ALCOE J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 6(3), 1987, pp.21-22.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Describes the principles and the different stages of the training exercise.
Effects of short-term disability awareness training on attitudes of adolescent schoolboys toward persons with a disability
- Authors:
- MOORE Danielle, NETTLEBECK Ted
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 38(3), 2013, pp.223-231.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Background: Schoolboys (N = 156, M age = 13 years) participated in a disability awareness training programme that included guest speakers (athletes from the Paralympics and the Special Olympics), a documentary about people with a disability, a disability simulation activity, and factual information about different disabilities. Method: Participants were allocated to a training program or a control condition. Subsequently, control participants completed the training program. Attitudes toward disability were measured by the Chedoke–McMaster Attitudes Towards Children With Handicaps (CATCH) Scale and the scale from the “Just Like You” disability awareness intervention, before and after training. Results: Training improved attitude scores, and gains were retained at one-month follow-up. Conclusions: Disability awareness training that delivered relevant information by involving guest speakers with a disability, included documentary evidence about the lives of people with a disability, and included interactive discussion, was successful. CATCH and “Just Like You” are useful tools for measuring self-reported attitudes about disability. (Publisher abstract)
Let's stick together
- Author:
- REID Tricia
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, December 2008, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Briefly reports on the new leadership training course for disabled adults and parents of disabled children which is run by Partners in Policymaking. The course covers issues including health and education, person-centred planning and individual budgets. It also provides information and skills training so that people with disabilities and family members can speak for themselves.
By-passing the dragon. Supported employment and strategic change
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(2), October 1998, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
In this analysis of employment and day services n the late 1990s, the author finds that agencies which seek to allow each individual to gain from both government and non-governmental sources of support have built a by-pass around the health and social services dragon.
Accessible training: improving access to training for disabled trainees
- Authors:
- FREENEY Mike, DUCKWORTH Stephen, PARKINSON Marcia
- Publisher:
- Industrial Common Ownership Movement
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 88p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Handbook designed to help training organisations or individual trainers to make their training provision accessible to disabled people. Includes sections on: marketing training to disabled people; financial implications for disabled people undertaking training; access issues; disability etiquette; countering discrimination; training for people with learning disabilities; sources of equipment, funding and other support; and directory of contacts.
Developing staff competencies for supporting people with developmental disabilities: an orientation handbook
- Authors:
- GARDNER James F., CHAPMAN Michael S
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 173p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Textbook aimed at those working with people with learning difficulties and and or disabilities and their families.
Paying for training 1987/88: a comprehensive guide to sources of finance for adult training. Rev. ed
- Authors:
- McCREADIE John, MANSON-SMITH Derek
- Publisher:
- Planning Exchange
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- Var. pag.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Intended as a principal reference point for people seeking essential details of the assistance available to finance or otherwise subsidise adult training.