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The meaning of disability
- Author:
- VARO-WATSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, April 2001, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The author, a disabled service user, discusses definitions given to disability, and explains why care managers need to provide a positive baseline for disabled service users.
Wanted caring employees
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.6.00, 2000, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled people can exercise more control over their care by using direct payments. The author talks to users about the difference that direct payments have made in their lives.
My home, your workplace: people with physical disability negotiate their sexual health without crossing professional boundaries
- Authors:
- BROWNE Jan, RUSSELL Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(4), June 2005, pp.375-388.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper aims to describe research that examined the views of people with physical disability, living in Australia, of their sexual well-being needs from their own perspective. The study explored the impact their sexual well-being needs had on their relationships with professional carers. A social model of disability was used to understand how sexual well-being is facilitated or denied in community care. It also explored whether clients’ sexual well-being needs could be met without carers or clients ‘crossing the line’. The findings indicate the multiple ways that ‘professional boundaries’ were negotiated between clients and professional carers. The data show that the location of the ‘line’ changed, depending on a range of personal, social, economic and environmental factors. The data also show a gap between the sexual well-being needs of people living with a physical disability and the level of support provided at the social and organisational levels. Suggestions are made for research and practice directions.
Concerns of speech-impaired people and those communicating with them
- Authors:
- EMERSON Joyce, ENDERBY Pam
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 8(3), May 2000, pp.172-179.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study investigated the perception and experiences of people with speech impairments and of the general public when communicating with speech impaired people. The aim was to identify the actual concerns of people and factors that make communication easier or more difficult, to inform treatment programmes and information. Findings emphasize the importance of taking time and being assertive.
Who do disabled people think they are?
- Author:
- FLETCHER Agnes
- Journal article citation:
- New Bulletin, 355, November 2005, pp.19-21.
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
In 2004 the Disability Rights Commission commissioned some research questions which asked disabled people about the impact their condition had on them, what they feel and say about it and their attitudes towards disability discrimination and disability rights. The study highlighted three groups - the 'unaffected', the 'dealing', the 'hiding' and the 'bothered'. The article highlights the priorities for the Disability Rights Commission in terms of targeting its information and finding the right way to talk to people.
Forging a new identity
- Author:
- VERNON Maxine
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.2.02, 2002, p.38.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how the winner of the Community Care awards 2001 disability category is encouraging disabled people to acquire new skills and to develop their self-respect where needed.
Where are the children's experiences? Analysing social and cultural exclusion in 'special' and 'mainstream' schools
- Authors:
- DAVIS J.M., WATSON N.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(5), August 2001, pp.671-687.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article employs ethnographic data to illustrate that disabled children encounter discriminatory notions of 'normality' and 'difference' in both 'special' and 'mainstream' schools, and that these experiences relate to both the structural forces in schools, and the everyday individual and cultural practices of adults and children. In contrast to much of the literature in the field, this article examines the everyday life experiences of adults and disabled children from their own perspective. Highlights disabled children's own criticisms of 'special' and 'mainstream' schools to illustrate the fluid nature of disabled children's lives within educational settings. Argues that schools will be prevented from becoming fully inclusive until adults who control schools take account of children's views of specific educational processes and until educational policy makers adopt a more nuanced multi-level approach to inclusion. Children should be enabled to challenge the structural, cultural and individual conditions which create disability.
Listening to the voices of individuals with disabilities
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, BRICOUT John C., BASKIND Frank R.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 79(2), March 1998, pp.188-196.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Discusses how social work literature, research, and practice on disabilities has lagged behind other topical areas dealing with oppressed groups. Presents a social work literature search and analysis as well as interviews with six individuals with disabilities about their experiences with social workers. Individuals with disabilities assert that they were treated as though they had categorically fewer aspirations, abilities, and perhaps even fundamental rights than did non-disabled people. Provides a base for follow-up research on models of consumer-focused social worker practice in the area of disability.
Disability
- Author:
- KEEP John
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2, October 1996, pp.37-42.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
In the past few months, local authority policy and practice surrounding charging for services has been one of the most controversial areas of social care. Argues that as a method of rationing care in times of limited resources, charging leaves much to be desired from the service user's point of view.
Helpful actions seen through the eyes of parents of children with disabilities
- Authors:
- PREZANT Fran Pollock, MARSHAK Laura
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 21(1), January 2006, pp.31-45.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Parents of children with disabilities interact with a wide range of service providers in order to assure appropriate services for their children. While some actions performed by professionals are viewed as helpful, many are viewed as obstructive. Surveys completed by over 120 parents in the United States identified past actions perceived to be helpful and those thought to be unhelpful as well as identification of professionals associated with those actions. Using the critical incident technique, narrative responses were based on actual experiences that parents described. Parents were also asked to articulate specific actions they would like professionals to take in the future. Over half of the responses request desired relationships with professionals that focus on respect, collaboration, communication and information sharing. Implications for pre-professional training are discussed.