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Being there
- Authors:
- ANDERBERG Peter, JÖNSSON Bodil
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(7), December 2005, pp.719-733.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article examines the use of the Internet as experienced by people with significant mobility/physical impairments who are accustomed to using computers. The study is based on interviews and focuses on computer usage in everyday action and interaction. Contact with the majority of participants was established through the Swedish Internet Centre in Tenerife, Spain. In many cases, the possibilities that the computer and Internet offer have meant not only important improvements in quality of life, but first-time occurrences of great personal significance. The analysis is phenomenographic, resulting in main categories and subcategories, illustrated primarily through direct quotations. The three main categories are independence, communication, and learning.
Equal lives strategy: services for disabled people in Essex
- Author:
- ESSEX. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Essex. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Chelmsford
This strategy is based upon the feedback received from the consultation process on ‘Equal Lives’. It sets out the aims of social services in the way it commissions services for people with physical and sensory impairments. The first stage of the ‘Equal Lives’, consultation set out ways in which services for disabled people may be redesigned to help ensure that they remain independent by exercising control over their own life-styles and circumstances. Essex Social Services proposes to use ‘independent living’, the choice and control resting with disabled people, as the value base for future services for people with physical and sensory impairments.
Support and access in sports and leisure provision
- Author:
- DEVAS Magda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.231-245.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper will look at different ways of enabling people with learning difficulties to engage in leisure opportunities: the Support Model and the Access Model. These models will be put in their social context and then critiqued. The support model will be be contextualised in the theory of normalisation, access in disability theory. The support worker role will be shown to be useful in motivating people with learning difficlties into new activities, as well as having a protecting element, and unwittingly, disguise the level of discrimination people with learning difficulties are subject to. The access worker role will be shown to have strengths in understanding discrimination. With this analysis, it has the potential to dismantle disabling practices. However, the needs of people with learning difficulties have ramifications for disability theory. In practice, that means that ideas of self-advocacy need to be taken on board. Through interviews with sports personnel, social workers and people with learning difficulties, the implications of creating fully comprehensive access will be examined. I will conclude that both effective support and comprehensive access must be in place before people with learning difficulties are able to make a meaningful choice as to how they are enabled to participate in sports. It is only at that point of choice that the two models become complementary rather than competing discourses of provision.
Same difference? Older people's organisations and disability issues
- Authors:
- PRIESTLEY Mark, RABIEE Parvaneh
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(6), October 2002, pp.597-611.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article addresses some important areas of commonality in the political interests of older and disabled people. It reports findings from survey and interview research with local organisations representing older people, and their engagement with disability issues. The authors review similarities in the claims and mobilisation of older and disabled people, and by reviewing the groups that participated in the study. The main part of the article identifies substantive policy issues that were perceived as important to older people. Here, there are considerable areas of overlap with the claims of disabled people's organisations (for example, in relation to information, independent living, accessible housing, transport, social support, and incomes).