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Access 2 pictures
- Author:
- People First
- Publisher:
- People First
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 1v.looseleaf, CD ROM
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes a CD ROM containing pictures for cutting and pasting into documents, and a looseleaf folder with sections on good and bad ways of providing information to people with learning difficulties, including a step by step guide on making a piece of accessible information.
Power on whose terms?
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 10(3), January 1997, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author explains how self-advocacy can be made a genuinely empowering process for people with learning difficulties.
Famous for fifteen minutes
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.10.98, 1998, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a training project that teaches people with learning difficulties to make videos - a powerful medium for self-advocacy.
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.
I want to tell you a story
- Author:
- BENN Melissa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.6.99, 1999, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that empowering people with learning difficulties is not about giving them what we think they need but about listening to what they have to say about their lives, feelings and experiences.
New horizons in special education: evidence-based practice in action
- Editors:
- CARPENTER Barry, EGERTON Jo, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Sunfield
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 230p.
- Place of publication:
- Stourbridge
This book presents new ways to enable children with severe learning disabilities and autism to learn, and is based on the evidence of seven years of research by professionals working with children and young people at Sunfield. Projects included communication and self-advocacy, community access, health and mental health, family inclusion, curriculum development , psychology and therapies, and the Arts. Therapists, psychologists, teachers, teaching assistants, care workers, social workers and catering staff, along with families and children have all contributed to the book.
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.