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Innovations in advocacy and empowerment for people with intellectual disabilities
- Editor:
- WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Lisieux Hall Publications
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 279p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chorley, Lancs.
Focuses on advocacy and empowerment for people with learning difficulties. Includes chapters on: innovations in advocacy and empowerment; changing systems; self advocacy; the development of the international self advocacy movement; the impact of accessible information on people with learning difficulties; involving people with learning difficulties in the work of a public policy research institute; participation and empowerment through continuing education; empowerment through oral history and personal stories; setting up and running a health advocacy group for women; self advocacy by black people with learning difficulties; empowerment for older people; involving people with profound and multiple disabilities in person centred planning; involving people with learning difficulties in staff selection and recruitment; direct payments; partnerships in policy making; crime and the law; and helping people with learning difficulties to shape services.