Search results for ‘Subject term:"physical disabilities"’ Sort:
Results 1 - 10 of 286
Hands up
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.10.92, 1992, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the Americans with Disabilities Act and explains how disabled people are themselves central to its implementation.
Disability research by disabled and non-disabled people: towards a rational methodology of research production
- Authors:
- TREGASKIS Claire, GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(5), December 2005, pp.363-374.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper explores some of the problems and opportunities that may derive from the development of working relationships between disabled and non-disabled researchers. First a number of key barriers that face disabled researchers from the outset of research are sketched out. In seeking to identify good research practice that can challenge such barriers, it is suggested that enabling modes of research production may often be uncovered through a careful examination of the working relationships between members of research teams. This approach is illustrated through a discussion of a range of relational issues that have impacted upon the authors’ own research partnership: (i) Relating in research: Tackling fears and issues around self-disclosure; (ii) Psychoanalytic sensitivity: Privileging ontological experience and reflexivity; (iii) Towards a feminist ethics of care: Challenging methodological individualism; and (iv) Interdependence in research: towards enriched analysis. In terms of advancing an agenda for inclusive disability research, it is believed that making explicit the complexity of disabled/non-disabled research relationships like this is one practical way in which general assumptions of a binary disabled/non-disabled split may be challenged, whilst simultaneously recognizing that equitable working partnerships can only derive from the equal valuing of difference.
When it comes to power, how important is the distinction between of and for?
- Author:
- POLLARD Jim
- Journal article citation:
- New Bulletin, 347, July 2004, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
Introduces RADAR's Tipping Point project which aims to look at what places disabled people at the heart of an organisation.
Learning from experience: involving black disabled people in shaping services
- Authors:
- EVANS Rachel, BANTON Martin
- Publisher:
- Council of Disabled People
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 94p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leamington Spa
This report presents the findings of a one year research project, which explored one organisation's experiences in developing the involvement of black disabled people. Undertaken by the Council of Disabled People Warwickshire (CDP), and organisation run and controlled by disabled people, the aims of the research were to learning from CDP's experience to date by: examining definitions of involvement and exploring what involvement means for black people working in different ways with CDP; and reflect on what has and has not worked for CDP in developing the involvement of black disabled people.
Working with disabled people in consultation and research
- Authors:
- BARNES Di, KENDALL Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 19(1), 2001, pp.17-24.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
When a consultation exercise is designed with disabled people, the result will be influenced by all the participants' experience of consultation and their knowledge and understanding of research. The exercise will also be a product of particular place and time. These influences are explored in a case study carried out by the authors in partnerships with disabled people; they adopted a pluralistic and flexible approach to consultation, which gave information as well as sought it, and included a commitment to developing community skills with an eye on succession.
Funny, punchy, powerful and political
- Author:
- SYMES Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 57, September 1995, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
Talks about the London Disability Art Forum's work in developing a 'disability culture'.
Transforming disability research
- Author:
- WALKER Martha Lentz
- Journal article citation:
- ReHab NetWork, 38, Summer 1995, pp.13-17.
- Publisher:
- National Vocational Rehabilitation Association
Describes the impact of Participatory Action Research (PAR) on disability research in the United States of America.
No great expectations
- Author:
- DAY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, May 1994, p.10.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The Disabled Persons Act 1986 was intended to improve the co-ordination of services and assessment of disabled peoples' needs and to ensure that their carers were more involved in decision making, and had information that would help them make genuine choices and exercise their rights. The author says that the Act has failed in its aims.
Who's taking the lead in Europe?
- Author:
- HALDANE Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Disability Issues, 16, April 1994, pp.14-15.
Looks at European Union (EU) funding programmes such as HELIOS and how far they favour projects which involve disabled people in developing policies.
Disabled people, service users, user involvement and representation
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, CAMPBELL Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(3), 1994, pp.315-325.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Examines the emphasis of service agencies on the 'unrepresentativeness' of disabled people and service users; looks at how this is experienced by the latter and considers why the issue has gained such importance. Examines the means attached to representation by recipients and providers of services. As well as looking at how the issue of representativeness is used to devalue, exclude and disempower disabled people and service users, the article explores its relation with the competing participatory and representative models and practices of democracy employed by disabled people and service providers.