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Don't push me around: disabled children's experiences of wheelchair services in the UK
- Authors:
- SHARMA Neera, MORRISON Jan
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
This report looks at the state of wheelchair provision to young people. The report finds that a lack of money and a postcode lottery of provision are having a disastrous impact on the lives of many disabled children across the UK. The underfunding means that young people who need wheelchairs are generally only given the most basic of equipment, despite the fact this regularly fails to meet their needs. At the same time, lengthy waiting times for assessments and provision mean that disabled children's life chances and childhoods are even further diminished.
Disability
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, October 2001, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Disabled people face many physical barriers in the home, in participating in sport and exercise and in employment. Looks at a range of recent research which examined housing adaptations and home equipment, practical support in employment, opportunites for young people to participate in sport and physcial activity among disabled adults.
Don't leave us out: involving disabled children and young people with communication impairments
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 80p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Explains how the author and her co-researchers set about obtaining the views and experiences of thirty young disabled people, many of whom were described as having severe communication and or cognitive impairments, regarding the plans and provisions made for them by local authorities and others. Describes the practicalities involved, including gaining consent, planning visits, using facilitators, equipment and communication aids, and being with the young people. Also describes how the project established a reference group of young people who could advise the researchers as the project progressed.
The disability rights movement: from charity to confrontation
- Authors:
- FLEISHER Doris Zames, ZAMES Freida
- Publisher:
- Temple University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 278p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, PA
This book, a history of the American disability movement, documents the evolution of attitudes from isolation and charity to confrontation and rights; from sheltered workshops to independent living; from 'cripples' and 'invalids' to people with disabilities. Contents include: deinstitutionalisation and independent living; disability rights legislation; the struggle for change; access to jobs and health care; physician assisted suicide; disability and technology; disabled veterans; education; identity and culture.
Consulting with children whose impairments affect their communication
- Author:
- CHILDREN IN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Children in Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This factsheet summarises the main systems of communication in current use in the UK for children and young people with communication difficulties and provides a brief explanation of them. These systems come under the overall heading of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, a term which refers to any method of communicating that supplements the ordinary methods of speech and handwriting, where these are impaired. The factsheet covers technical aids, signing systems, symbol systems and tactile systems.