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What makes a good self advocacy project: a toolkit
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
A toolkit to help self-advocacy groups to plan, design and run projects. It covers: planning a new project, running a project, checking that your project is working, deciding if your project was a success and sharing good ideas from your project with other people. It will be useful for self-advocacy groups, run by and for people with learning disabilities, and those funding self-advocacy groups, such as local authorities and charities. The toolkit is in easy read format and was developed with funding from the Big Lottery through DRILL (Disability Research through Independent Living and Learning). (Edited publisher abstract)
Supporting self-advocacy
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.01.08, 2008, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article draws on SCIE's 'Position Paper 6: Supporting Self-Advocacy' to highlight how best to support self-advocacy services for people with learning disabilities.
People First celebrate their success stories
- Authors:
- BOOTH Wendy, BOOTH Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 7(2), October 1993, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on the Third International Conference of the People First movement, held in Toronto in June, which attracted 1400 self-advocates and their supporters from 32 countries.
Supporting self advocacy: a report of two conferences held in June and September 1989 at the King's Fund Centre
- Editor:
- WHITTAKER Andrea
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 60p.,illus.,list of orgs.,biblio
- Place of publication:
- New Romney
Contains contributions by people with learning difficulties and by people working in supportive roles. Provides information and practical ideas.
Keeping it safe: self-advocacy by people with learning difficulties and the professional response
- Author:
- DOWSON Steve
- Publisher:
- Values into Action
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 24p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Challenges many of the ideas and practices associated with self-advocacy.
We can speak for ourselves: self-advocacy by mentally handicapped people
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Paul, SHOULTZ Bonnie
- Publisher:
- Souvenir Press
- Publication year:
- 1982
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Exploring the ethical underpinnings of self-advocacy support for intellectually disabled adults
- Authors:
- CHAPMAN Rohhss, TILLY Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Ethics and Social Welfare, 7(3), 2013, pp.257-271.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Self-advocacy organisations support people in a wide range of political activities, alongside providing key social networks. The emergence of formalised self-advocacy for intellectually disabled people marked an important cultural shift. These groups soon became associated with the pursuit of social change and the attainment of rights. The role of the self-advocacy support worker, working together with self-advocates, has been pivotal. However, studies have shown there has been concern over the relationship between self-advocates and those who advise or support them. Both parties are aware of the potential tensions of supporters teaching people skills to take control, to manage their workers, whilst, perhaps inadvertently, assuming a powerful position in the relationship. This interesting paradox hints at ethical complexities inherent in the role. A key challenge facing these support workers is how they can support their employers to run successful organisations, without ‘taking over’. Using material from both Chapman and Tilley's research of self-advocacy organisations in the UK, this article problematises some key ethical issues within the role. (Edited publisher abstract)
Getting better
- Authors:
- LEEDS ANIMATION WORKSHOP, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- Leeds Animation Workshop
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- (11 mins.), DVD
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Six short animated stories about people with learning disabilities who also have mental health problems. The films shows how people with learning disabilities need to stand up for themselves to get fair treatment and in order to look after their health. It also shows what to expect when visiting the doctor's, the clinic or visit the dentist. A booklet is included.
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.
Self advocacy training project: People First Fraserburgh
- Author:
- PEOPLE FIRST FRASERBURGH
- Publisher:
- Outside the Box Development Support
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
An accessible report by People First (Fraserburgh) of a project to develop training which will help people with learning difficulties speak up for themselves is presented. The aim of the training is also to help staff who work in local authorities and other jobs understand why people can have difficulty speaking up for themselves.