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So much policy, so little change!
- Author:
- HOLLAND Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, 1(1), March 2007, pp.3-6.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article provides a brief historical perspective and describes recent policy guidance relating to the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities in England. It also highlights the role that health and social care services have played turning the policies into practice. Finally it will suggest why people with learning disabilities continue to be one of the most excluded and discriminated groups within our society and how our drive towards social inclusion remains the key challenge for all of us.
Discriminating on the grounds of need not disabilities
- Authors:
- BROWN Michael, MacARTHUR Juliet
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 21.7.99, 1999, pp.48-49.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on a project to improve access to health care for people with learning difficulties.
Invisible to themselves or negotiating identity? The interactional management of 'being intellectually disabled'
- Authors:
- RAPLEY Mark, KIERNAN Patrick, ANTAKI Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(5), November 1998, pp.807-827.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses how there seems to be a professional, and perhaps societal, consensus that the identity label of 'intellectual disabled' is an aversive even 'toxic' one. Parents' concerns over the toxicity of the label led them to bring up their children in ignorance of their disabilities, and thus produce people who are 'invisible to themselves'. Drawing on work in discursive psychology, the authors argue that the social identity of 'being intellectually disabled', and its management in talk, is considerably more fluid and dynamic than the static characteristic of self implied by the construct of an all-embracing, 'toxic', identity. A person with an intellectual disability can, like any other, avow or disavow such an identity according to the demands of the situation in which they find themselves.
Acting against discrimination
- Author:
- KINRADE Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Nurse, 18(12), August 2003, pp.714-715.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on a survey which interviewed people with a variety of disabilities on their experiences in hospital. Results revealed that their needs were often not met and that they felt staff had negative views of disabled people.
What choice: a consideration of the level of opportunity for people with mild and moderate learning disabilities to lead a physically active healthy lifestyle
- Authors:
- MESSENT Peter R., COOKE Carlton B., LONG Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 27(2), 1999, pp.73-77.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article asks whether inequalities of opportunity exist between the general population and adults with mild and moderate learning disabilities to lead a physically active lifestyle, and if the provision of equivalent opportunities should be considered a human right. For the learning disability population the right to opportunities to be physically active can be divided into primary and secondary rights, the former is the right to opportunities, the latter is whether and how the opportunities are taken up. This review suggests that care in the community is insufficiently resourced to provide adequately beyond basic needs and that significant inequalities do exist between the general and learning disability populations in relation to opportunities and choices to be physically active.
Levelling the odds
- Author:
- WALKER Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.5.96, 1996, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The needs of older people with learning difficulties are often overlooked. The author argues that if service providers can find ways of meeting the challenge, the can lead full lives.
Care assessments concerning involuntary removal of children from intellectually disabled parents
- Authors:
- ALEXIUS Katarina, HOLLANDER Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 36(3), 2014, pp.295-310.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study set out to analyse how parenting and the needs of the children are assessed by social authorities and courts in families where one or both parents have an intellectual disability (ID). The texts of child welfare investigations and court judgments in 16 cases of care orders concerning parents (30) with IDs and their children (29) in two counties in Sweden were analysed by a hermeneutic case study. The study shows that even though many of the children are described as already harmed by neglect, clear assessments of care needs are not presented and it is uncertain which of the children's needs a placement in a family home is assumed to satisfy. The conclusion of the article is that, even though no direct discrimination can be established, the particular individual and structural difficulties of the families' life circumstances are not taken into consideration. This can be seen as a discriminatory practice. (Publisher abstract)
Residential supports for people with intellectual disabilities: questions and challenges from the UK
- Author:
- EMERSON Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 24(4), December 1999, pp.309-319.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Uses recent developments in services in the UK as a case study to identify some of the challenges facing the provision of residential supports to people with intellectual disabilities. Three main areas are discussed: (1) responding to existing levels of unmet need and increasing levels of demand; (2) reducing inequalities in access to and the quality of services; and (3) obtaining and demonstrating "best value". In particular, discussion is focused on the relationships between needs, resources, process and outcomes in residential services for people with intellectual disabilities and the implications of these relationships for obtaining "best value".