Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 28(4), 2015, pp.319-329.
Publisher:
Wiley
Background: News media frames public perceptions. As such, news media becomes a useful source of analysis to understand the presence (or otherwise) of people with disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities, within parenting discourses.
Method: Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this article examines major Australian newspapers over the period from January 2004 to December 2008, critiquing the construction of parenting and disability. A small number of articles are examined in close depth for tone, polarity syntactic and paradigmatic choice, deconstructing the underlying discourses that shape the article and thereby popular perceptions of parenting and disability.
Discussion: Discourses of care and child protection are emphasized in news articles about parenting, creating perceptions that negate the role of people with disabilities as parents. Such perceptions result in a systematic symbolic castration of people with intellectual disabilities from the role of parent in Australian society.
Conclusion: By providing a framework for understanding the public perceptions of parents with disabilities (particularly intellectual disabilities), this paper demonstrates that changes are necessary in Australian media reporting on parents with disabilities to bring such reporting more closely in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Background: News media frames public perceptions. As such, news media becomes a useful source of analysis to understand the presence (or otherwise) of people with disabilities, particularly intellectual disabilities, within parenting discourses.
Method: Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this article examines major Australian newspapers over the period from January 2004 to December 2008, critiquing the construction of parenting and disability. A small number of articles are examined in close depth for tone, polarity syntactic and paradigmatic choice, deconstructing the underlying discourses that shape the article and thereby popular perceptions of parenting and disability.
Discussion: Discourses of care and child protection are emphasized in news articles about parenting, creating perceptions that negate the role of people with disabilities as parents. Such perceptions result in a systematic symbolic castration of people with intellectual disabilities from the role of parent in Australian society.
Conclusion: By providing a framework for understanding the public perceptions of parents with disabilities (particularly intellectual disabilities), this paper demonstrates that changes are necessary in Australian media reporting on parents with disabilities to bring such reporting more closely in line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
parenting, disabilities, parents with learning disabilities, mass media, learning disabilities, parents;
This article attempts to explain what community law is and how it may be relevant to family law practice. It focuses particularly on family law involving disabled children, and/or disabled adults. The article covers the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; National Assistance Act 1948; Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000; section 28A of the CSDPA; Children Act 1989 section 17, section 17A and section 17B; and Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000.
This article attempts to explain what community law is and how it may be relevant to family law practice. It focuses particularly on family law involving disabled children, and/or disabled adults. The article covers the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; National Assistance Act 1948; Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000; section 28A of the CSDPA; Children Act 1989 section 17, section 17A and section 17B; and Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000.
Subject terms:
parents with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, community care, children, disabilities, family law;
Summarises some of the key messages from a recent SCIE knowledge review, 'Supporting disabled parents and parents with additional support needs'. The knowledge review aimed to define the needs of parents at different stages of parenthoods and assess the type of support that they needed at each stage.
Summarises some of the key messages from a recent SCIE knowledge review, 'Supporting disabled parents and parents with additional support needs'. The knowledge review aimed to define the needs of parents at different stages of parenthoods and assess the type of support that they needed at each stage.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, needs, parenting, parents, parents with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, disabilities, parental mental health;
This review sets out to investigate the nature and extent of evidence relating to independent advocacy for disabled people at risk of losing choice and control in four specific situations: during transition to adulthood; when the children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures; when entry to residential care is a possibility; when disabled people are victims or alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. In doing so, it describes and evaluates evidence about the need, costs and benefits associated with independent advocacy. The final section summarises the state of the evidence base currently available and the gaps therein, and suggests what additional research is needed to further our knowledge in this field.
This review sets out to investigate the nature and extent of evidence relating to independent advocacy for disabled people at risk of losing choice and control in four specific situations: during transition to adulthood; when the children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures; when entry to residential care is a possibility; when disabled people are victims or alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. In doing so, it describes and evaluates evidence about the need, costs and benefits associated with independent advocacy. The final section summarises the state of the evidence base currently available and the gaps therein, and suggests what additional research is needed to further our knowledge in this field.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mental health problems, mentally disordered offenders, offenders, parents with learning disabilities, residential care, sensory impairments, service transitions, advocacy, anti-social behaviour, child protection, crime victims, disabilities;
This is the executive summary of a review which sets out to investigate the nature and extent of evidence relating to independent advocacy for disabled people at risk of losing choice and control in four specific situations: during transition to adulthood; when the children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures; when entry to residential care is a possibility; when disabled people are victims or alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. In doing so, it describes and evaluates evidence about the need, costs and benefits associated with independent advocacy. The final section summarises the state of the evidence base currently available and the gaps therein, and suggests what additional research is needed to further our knowledge in this field.
This is the executive summary of a review which sets out to investigate the nature and extent of evidence relating to independent advocacy for disabled people at risk of losing choice and control in four specific situations: during transition to adulthood; when the children of disabled parents are subject to safeguarding procedures; when entry to residential care is a possibility; when disabled people are victims or alleged perpetrators of anti-social behaviour. In doing so, it describes and evaluates evidence about the need, costs and benefits associated with independent advocacy. The final section summarises the state of the evidence base currently available and the gaps therein, and suggests what additional research is needed to further our knowledge in this field.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, mental health problems, mentally disordered offenders, offenders, parents with learning disabilities, residential care, sensory impairments, service transitions, advocacy, anti-social behaviour, child protection, crime victims, disabilities;