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Helping ourselves
- Author:
- WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.6.95, 1995, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on Equal People, a course produced by the Open University in partnership with Mencap and People First. The course is unique in that it is open to everyone, including people with learning difficulties. Describes the aims of the course.
Normalisation emancipatory research and inclusive research in learning disability
- Author:
- WALMSLEY Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(2), March 2001, pp.187-205.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article traces the influence of two major sets of ideas: normalisation/srv, and the social model of disability on inclusive research in learning disability. The argument is that normalisation set the agenda for learning disability research for two or more decades. Inclusive researchers continue to apply normalisation thinking to work with people with learning difficulties, particularly in assuming the role of advocate. Latterly, a number of researchers have tried to rise to the challenges posed by emancipatory research, particularly in attempting to find ways to put people with learning difficulties in control. Whilst some ideas from emancipatory research have been applied in learning disability, there are debates in the disability literature that have not been addressed in learning disability research to date. The result is that inclusive research in learning disability is in danger of being marginalised, both in the context of disability studies and in the context of the broad sweep of learning disability research.