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Love and resistance of mothers with intellectual disability from ethnocultural communities in Canada
- Authors:
- PACHECO Laura, McCONNELL David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 30(3), 2017, p.501–510.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Background: Mothers with intellectual disability are thought to be passive, dependent and in need of protection. This study contributes to a nascent body of research that challenges this schema, revealing how women with intellectual disability who are mothers resist oppression. Methods: Narrative research methods underpinned by intersectionality theory were used to explore the lives of eight mothers with intellectual disability from various ethnocultural communities in Canada. A total of 33 in-depth interviews were conducted with these eight women over a period of 2 years. Results: The lives of the women who took part in this study were marked by violence. The women resisted. Their resistance strategies addressed two kinds of relationships: their relationships with others and their relationship with themselves. Conclusion: The women in this study employed strategies of resistance, sometimes at great personal cost, to provide their children with a better life. (Publisher abstract)
Disseminating information: a method for human service practitioners
- Authors:
- SMITH N.J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 7(4), Summer 1994, pp.9-14.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
Describes the development of a computer application, funded by the Australian Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, on the management of menstruation to support parents and practitioners in the care of women with an intellectual disability. The system developed, a hypertext database, provided information in a non-linear manner, allowing users to make their own associations between units of information.
The body of political evidence
- Author:
- SONE Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.10.97, 1997, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The revelation that 63,000 people with learning difficulties or mental health problems in Sweden were forcibly sterilised has fuelled the debate about the reproductive rights of people with learning difficulties in this country. Explains the arguments.
Rewards for excellence
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.5.98, 1998, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As the countdown begins for the 1998 Community Care Awards, looks back at last year's winners and finds out what it will take for this year's entrants to win awards for their projects.
Values and visions: changing ideas in services for people with learning difficulties
- Editors:
- PHILPOT Terry, WARD Linda
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 422p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Includes chapters on: supporting families of children and adults with learning difficulties; achieving supported housing; supported employment and real jobs; continuing education for adults with learning difficulties; institutional trends in services; developing better relationships between health and social services; assessment and care management; making contracts work for people with learning difficulties; user participation in services; complaints procedures; developing better services for people from black and minority ethnic communities; gender issues; older people with learning difficulties; self advocacy; challenging behaviour; sexuality; parents with learning difficulties; poverty; and media images of people with learning difficulties. Also contains sections on services provision in the United States and Canada.