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Communicating with disabled children
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, CONNORS Clare
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 27(1), Spring 2003, pp.26-35.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The authors discuss the methods used in a study seeking disabled children's accounts of their everyday lives. In the study 26 disabled children were interviewed, visual aids and activities were also used. The design and effectiveness of these methods are discussed. The authors conclude that communicating with most disabled children is little different from communicating with any child.
Care and treatment?: supporting children with complex needs in healthcare settings
- Authors:
- STALKER Kirsten, et al
- Publisher:
- Pavilion,|Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 91p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Significant numbers of children and young people with complex physical, medical and cognitive health needs may be spending unnecessarily long periods of time in hospital and other healthcare settings because inadequacy of community-based resources is preventing their discharge. This report details the findings of research conducted in England and Scotland to identify how many children with complex support needs are spending longer than one month in healthcare settings in Scotland and England, how and why they are in hospital, why they have not been discharged home or to appropriate alternative community-based facilities, and how well the hospital or healthcare setting is meeting their emotional, social and educational needs. It finds that many of these children could and should be discharged but are not, for a variety of reasons: primarily the lack of appropriate resources in the community and poor discharge planning processes, coupled with the inability of their families to manage their care and supervision without intensive support. Hospitals and healthcare settings in many cases are not meeting their needs and these children are being denied the protection offered by UK legislation governing children’s rights and welfare. The researchers conclude that much more should be done by health authorities and health boards, by NHS trusts, hospitals and community services, and by social services and education departments to ensure these children receive the same standards of care, treatment and protection accorded to other children, and that inappropriate admissions and such lengthy stays should be avoided at all costs.
The views and experiences of disabled children and their siblings: a positive outlook
- Authors:
- CONNORS Clare, STALKER Kirsten
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 187p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book considers the following topics: disabled children's understanding of disability; thew ways in which children negotiate the experience of disability in their daily lives; children's perceptions of their relationships with professionals and their knowledge and views of service provisions; siblings' perception of the effects on them of having a disabled brother or sister