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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.
Rules of engagement
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.9.95, 1995, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Investigates whether user-led groups are in danger of being taken over by professionals, and even politicians, who claim to speak for service users.
Developing service user involvement in the South Korean disability services: lessons from the experience of community care policy and practice in UK
- Authors:
- KIM Deug Yong, ROSS Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(2), March 2008, pp.188-196.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper considers the scope for the integration of service user involvement within services for people with disabilities in South Korea at a time of rapid development in social policy and practice. Using the UK experience of introducing community care and a mixed economy of service provision over the last 14 years, this paper considers the barriers to service user involvement inherent in the South Korean context and concludes that in a society where there is a shortage of services and a provider-orientated delivery system where most services are delivered by voluntary organisations, more public services are needed and a ‘democratic’ rather than a consumerist approach to user involvement is required. Some elements of the UK system could inform the development of a systematic approach to user involvement in South Korea, notably the right to assessment within a care management structure, the setting of quality care standards and inspection processes and a complaints procedure.
It'll be all rights
- Author:
- BRODY Simeon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.06.06, 2006, p.46.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author asks how far councils have gone in meeting the forthcoming duty to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. The article focuses on the progress made in producing and disability equality scheme, and the extent of involving disabled people in drafting these schemes.
Emancipatory research methodology and disability: a critique
- Authors:
- DANIELLI Ardha, WOODHAMS CAROL
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(4), October 2005, pp.281-296.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper questions the prescription of emancipatory participatory research for studying disability espoused by some disability researchers and activists. It argues that the advocacy of participatory and emancipatory research can be criticised on several grounds including problems of internal inconsistency and contradiction, an overly selective use of the works of feminist researchers and that research using such an approach could constitute an exercise of power that potentially marginalises some voices and potentially oppresses some disabled people and researchers. Ultimately, it is suggested, the emancipatory paradigm may serve to undermine the generation of knowledge that can be used by disabled people for self-emancipation. The paper concludes that rather than prescribe emancipatory research as the only legitimate methodology for disability research, disability writers should, as feminists have in researching gender, adopt a more pluralist and eclectic approach to theorising and researching disability.
Finding out things
- Author:
- THOMPSON John
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Examines the issues in disability research with users and their carers. Research methods, user involvement and outcomes are considered.
Room at the academy?: people with learning difficulties and higher education
- Authors:
- BOXALL Kathy, CARSON Iain, DOCHERTY Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(2), March 2004, pp.99-112.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article considers the contributions of people with learning difficulties to an undergraduate degree programme in Learning Disability Studies at the University of Manchester. It begins with an evaluation of models of disability and their implications for the study and production of knowledge about learning disability. It then goes on to explore the role of people with learning difficulties--and the place of their experiences and knowledges--both on the Learning Disability Studies programme and within the academy. Drawing on the experience of the Learning Disability Studies programme, it argues for the inclusion of people with learning difficulties in learning, teaching and research.
More than a job: securing satisfying careers for people with disabilities
- Editors:
- WEHMAN Paul, KREGEL John
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 374p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
User led book providing professionals with step by step strategies for helping disabled people and people with learning difficulties to find meaningful employment. Emphasises the importance of long term planning and individual control over assessment and training.
The heart of the matter
- Author:
- PARTON Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 15(3), May/June 2015, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Ridgeway, a supported living service for four young people with a range of physical and learning disabilities, was rated 'outstanding by the Care Quality Commission under the CQC's new inspection system. The article looks some of the factors that contribute to the success of the service which aims to put the people it supports at the heart of everything it does: supporting its residents to find employment; planning goals with residents and their families; matching staff and residents who have similar interests; involving residents in the induction of new staff. (Edited publisher abstract)
The disability equality duty and involvement: guidance for public authorities on how to effectively involve disabled people
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- Stratford upon Avon
Public authorities have a legal duty to involve disabled people in creating their Disability Equality Schemes. This involvement must be planned, structured and significant. It will not be acceptable for public authorities simply to consult disabled people. The involvement with disabled people will need to be a much more active process. Alongside being a legal requirement, involvement is the key to achieving better public services for disabled people. Public authorities are not able to ensure disability equality without input from disabled people and their organisations. Central to the success of many involvement strategies will be the ability of public authorities to work with representative bodies of disabled people.