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Disability and discourse: analysing inclusive conversation with people with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Val
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 257p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what happens during the everyday encounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the other people with whom they interact. It explores conversations and encounters from the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, and introduces the established methodology of Conversation Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of students, researchers and practitioners. The book adopts a discursive approach which looks at how people with intellectual disabilities use talk in real-life situations, while showing how such talk can be supported and developed, and follows people into the meetings and discussions that take place in self-advocacy and research contexts. It then offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research.
I can get a job: a step-by-step guide to getting a job
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is thought that less than one in ten people with learning disabilities have jobs. People don't think people with learning disabilities can achieve, so they don't get training and help to find jobs. Helping people find jobs is not seen as important. The rules about benefits can mean that people lose out if they get jobs. It can be difficult to move from 'supported employment' into other paid jobs that people might want. The Government wants more people with learning disabilities to have jobs. This book is a step by step guide to how to get a job.
I want to work: a guide to benefits and work for people with a learning disability
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is thought that less than one in ten people with learning disabilities have jobs. People don't think people with learning disabilities can achieve, so they don't get training and help to find jobs. Helping people find jobs is not seen as important. The rules about benefits can mean that people lose out if they get jobs. It can be difficult to move from 'supported employment' into other paid jobs that people might want. The Government wants more people with learning disabilities to have jobs.
Doing, showing and going: Mencap's arts strategy
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 19p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mencap's plan for enabling people with a learning disability to have better opportunities in the arts.
Researching Together: conference pack: held in Bristol 28th January 1999
- Editors:
- WILLIAMS Val, GYDE Karen (comp.)
- Publisher:
- Norah Fry Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 98p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
The research supporter needs to learn how to step back, and find ways for researchers with learning difficulties to do things for themselves. It is important that people with learning difficulties know how powerful they can be when they are doing research.
The beliefs, values and principles of self-advocacy
- Author:
- INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF SOCIETIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL HANDICAP
- Publisher:
- Brookline Books
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Booklet setting out values and principles for self-advocacy. Also contains sections on: support and the role of a support person; empowerment; institutions; and stories of good practice from around the world.
Theorising empowerment: individual power and community care
- Author:
- SERVIAN Richard
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 77p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Argues that community care policy is the latest in a long line of policies which have failed to live up to the promise of empowering vulnerable individuals. Focuses on people with learning difficulties and presents a framework for analysis to help individuals avoid becoming disempowered.
Free to choose: an introduction to service brokerage
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, TOWE Noel
- Publisher:
- Good Impressions Publishing
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 44p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on a service delivery system which aims to directly empower consumers, and surveys the use of service brokerage with mentally handicapped people in Canada.
Helping people with a learning disability to give feedback
- Author:
- NHS ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- NHS England
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 6
- Place of publication:
- Redditch
This guide explains how, with the right support, people with a learning disability can have their say about the NHS. Support for people to give feedback includes: including people with a learning disability in feedback and engagement work; tapping in to local networks and voluntary organisations to ensure a larger number of people with a learning disability can be reached; ensuring information and questions presented as part of a survey or other feedback initiatives are easy to understand; involving people with a learning disability in designing and running feedback events so that they become more engaging and effective sessions; and ensuring people feel more empowered during any event where they are encouraged to have their say about healthcare. (Edited publisher abstract)
Making life work: freedom and disability in a community group home
- Author:
- LEVINSON Jack
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 304p.
- Place of publication:
- Minneapolis, MN
This ethnography is based on more than a year of research in a New York City group home for adults with intellectual disabilities. Group homes emerged in the US in the 1970s as a solution to the failure of large institutions. However critics claim that community services have not, for the most part, delivered on the promises of rights, self-determination, and integration and portray group homes simply as settings of social control. The author shows how group homes need the knowledgeable and voluntary participation of residents and counsellors alike. For the counsellors it is their workplace but for residents group home work involves working to become more autonomous. It is suggested that rather than being seen as the antithesis of freedom, the group home must be understood as demonstrating the fundamental dilemmas between authority and the individual that are seen more broadly in contemporary liberal societies. Drawing on his experience as a group home counsellor, the author demonstrates that a group home depends on the very capacities for independence and individuality it aims to cultivate in its residents. Chapters include: an introduction to disability in the context of the community and everyday life; how the group home works; group home technologies including administration and plans; and managing risk. The book concludes with a chapter entitled “Making Life Work”.