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Self-advocacy and supported learning for mothers with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, BOOTH Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(2), June 2003, pp.165-193.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article describes the work of the Supported Learning Project (SLP). The SLP was a DfEE ACLF funded programme designed to provide personal support and development in self-advocacy to mothers with learning difficulties. The authors provide an account of the project, an overview of the learning gains made by the mothers and the obstacles to progress they encountered, and an evaluation of the project's success in achieving its intended aims. The article concludes with a discussion of the transferable lessons that emerged from working with this hard-to-reach group of excluded mothers.
Citizen advocacy in Camden and Westminster: an independent evaluation funded by BILD; April 2003
- Author:
- CAMDEN AND WESTMINSTER CITIZEN ADVOCACY. The Advocacy Project
- Publisher:
- Camden and Westminster Citizen Advocacy
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The BILD Citizen Advocacy Project currently working with local advocacy groups and advocacy organisations in Camden and Westminster to: produce common guidelines for citizen advocacy groups; explore the benefits of local affiliations between advocacy groups; and map the existing provision of advocacy groups. BILD is part of the new consortium which will be responsible for distributing the additional monies for citizen advocacy referred to in Valuing People.
Advocating for equality
- Authors:
- LEWINGTON Wendy, CLIPSON Caroline
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aims of this research were: to establish the level of advocacy provision for people with physical, sensory, communication and profound and multiple impairments; to make recommendations to Government, policy-makers and others on how to ensure that people with sensory, physical, communication and profound and multiple impairments are able to access appropriate independent advocacy provision; to identify what support and resources current advocacy providers would require to develop their schemes to include people with physical, sensory, communication and profound and multiple impairments; to establish whether local authorities have a local advocacy plan and whether advocacy providers feel this would be beneficial in their area The main findings from the research also included the following.. Many disabled people with physical, sensory, communication and profound and multiple impairments would benefit from the support of an independent advocate.. There is inadequate independent advocacy provision, especially for people with physical, sensory, communication and profound and multiple impairments. The main causes of lack of independent advocacy provision are funding issues and a lack of skills and experience around working with these groups of people. The types of independent advocacy undertaken by advocacy schemes may not always meet the needs of these groups of people. Finally, there is very little evidence of advocacy plans at a local level, but overwhelming support for their development among advocacy schemes.
A survey of self-advocacy groups for people with learning disabilities in an English region: part II
- Author:
- McNALLY Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7(3), September 2003, pp.231-250.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article is on the development, implementation and analysis of a survey of self-advocacy groups for people with learning disabilities in the midlands region of England. One hundred questionnaires were posted to groups and 53 were completed — a good response for remote work with groups whose members may not read. In postal surveys non-response can be overestimated because ineligible or unreachable respondents may be regarded as refusals. Three respondents identified themselves as ineligible; therefore the response rate was no less than 54 percent. Groups provided information about their origins, structure and functioning. Among the key findings were the consistency of the issues identified as important, and the willingness to engage in research. The overwhelming majority of groups indicated that they would participate further in the project. Participatory research paradigms from the social model of disability can enhance our understanding of self-advocates' experience.
Leadership and change in human services: selected readings
- Author:
- WOLFENSBERGER Wolf
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 272p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Wolf Wolfensberger is a significant figure in the world of human services, especially in the field of learning disability. His work on normalization and citizen advocacy in the late 1960s and early 1970s has been acknowledged by supporters and critics alike to have been fundamental to developments in a number of countries, most notably the USA. Canada, Australasia and the UK. The term citizen advocacy was coined in the 1970's by Wolfensberger, who believed that people in institutional care needed independent representation by people in their communities if they were ever going to experience normal living. His further work in developing the theory of social role valorization, the successor to normalisation, and as a commentator on broader trends in society and their effects on vulnerable people and services for them have ensured his place as a major voice for values and the human worth of all people.
Count us in: the inquiry into meeting the mental health needs of young people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- MORGAN Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 8(3), July 2003, pp.37-43.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on a one-year inquiry conducted by the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities into meeting the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities. The inquiry included the distribution of questionnaires to professionals through advertising in specialist journals, forms were also sent to social services departments, child and adolescent mental health services and staff in special schools. Focus groups were also held with young people with learning disabilities and their carers. The article reports on two themes of the Inquiry: the promotion of emotional well-being and resilience, and services to meet the needs of young people with learning disabilities who experience mental health problems. Based on the findings the Committee made 23 recommendations.
Learning difficulties
- Author:
- WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 15, April 2003, pp.31-36.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Reports on a research project, 'Journey to Independence', which looked at what people with learning difficulties have found useful in accessing and using direct payments. The project was carried out by a self-advocacy organisation Swindon People First in partnership with the Norah Fry Research Centre at the University of Bristol, with support from the Community Fund. The project also provided the project team with research skills needed to carry out the research, and provides important lessons for those wanting to increase the involvement of people with learning difficulties in research that concerns them.