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Speaking up, speaking out: pathways to self advocacy; handbook
- Authors:
- LARCHER Janet, et al
- Publisher:
- Communication Matters
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Aims to help people speak up and speak out for themselves, and provides guidance on how this can be facilitated. The handbook providing detailed information about advocacy and communicating with a person with severe communication difficulties. Each section of the handbook is accompanied by case studies which illustrate key issues and questions that are raised in the main text.
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.
Speaking up, speaking out: pathways to self-advocacy; practical guide
- Authors:
- LARCHER Janet, et al
- Publisher:
- Communication Matters
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Aims to help people speak up and speak out for themselves, and provides guidance on how this can be facilitated. The guide contains key points in easily reproduced form for use as overheads and handouts in group training sessions. The Practical Guide has been developed for use by key communication partners to help build realistic advocacy plans for individuals whom they are supporting.
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.