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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.
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.
Is the independent living movement about liberation or oppression?
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(4), April 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Argues that it is time the independent living movement stopped thinking about disabled people in stereotypes and focused on their opportunities for real living.
Opportunity blocks
- Author:
- BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.1.01, 2001, p.14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author argues that society's attitude to work and benefits does much to deny disabled people access to quality job opportunities, education and enriching life experiences.
Disability is natural: revolutionary common sense for raising children with disabilities
- Author:
- SNOW Kathie
- Publisher:
- Braveheart Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 632p.
- Place of publication:
- Woodland Park, CO
Children with disabilities, under the loving guidance of their parents-the true experts-can lead successful, natural lives at home, in school, and in their communities. The first step to ensure children lead successful, natural lives requires us to recognize that disability is not the "problem." The problem is, and always has been, society's attitude toward, and social policies for, children and adults with disabilities. Parents can learn common sense techniques for raising successful children with disabilities. When it is recognized that disability is a natural part of the human experience, new attitudes lead to new actions for successful lives at home, in school and in communities. When parents replace today's conventional wisdom with the common sense values and creative thinking, all children with disabilities (regardless of age or type of disability) can live the life of their dreams. It is necessary to define a child by his or her assets - instead of a disability-related "problem," and to create new and improved partnerships with educators, health care professionals, family and friends.
From welfare to citizenship: participation and empowerment in disability organisations
- Author:
- ACHESON Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Scope, November 2001, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
This article looks at new research which examines the issues of participation and empowerment in organisations addressing disability. Asks how well-equipped service provider organisations are to promote citizenship and inclusion and whether voluntary organisations are changing to reflect the view that disabled people should acquire greater control over the services they use.
The researched opinions on research: visually impaired people and visual impairment research
- Authors:
- DUCKETT Paul S., PRATT Rebekah
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(6), October 2001, pp.815-835.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes a research review, into the opinions of visually impaired people on visual impairment research. 37 visually impaired people across Central Region, Scotland were interviewed. Findings suggest areas of need for visual impairment research, both concerning what is researched and how it is researched.The authors make three core recommendations that identify the need for research to: respect people's individuality; be practical and action orientated, and contribute to an empowering and emancipatory research agenda.
Social behaviour and illness information interact to influence the peer acceptance of children with chronic illness
- Authors:
- ALDERFER Melissa A., WIEBE Deborah J., HARTMANN Donald P.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Health Psychology, 6(3), September 2001, pp.243-255.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study investigates social behaviour as a contributor to the peer acceptance of children with chronic illness. Results found that although children described as ill received lower acceptance ratings than healthy children, prosocial/ill children were more accepted than aggressive/ill children. Social behaviour interacted with physical status to affect acceptance. Concludes that social behaviour influences the peer acceptance of hypothetical children with chronic illness. Prosocial behaviour enhances acceptances of children described with illness, while aggressive behaviour hampers it. Additionally, prosocial behaviour is more, while aggressive behaviour is less damaging for children described as ill versus healthy. The potential processes by which peers judge acceptance of children with illness are discussed.
No sign of harm: issues for disabled children communicating about abuse
- Authors:
- OOSTERHOORN Rebecca, KENDRICK Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse Review, 10(4), July 2001, pp.243-253.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article explores the views of professionals working with children using alternative/augmented communication systems on the issues relating to communication about abuse. Interviews were carried out with 20 staff from eight establishments for disabled children across Scotland. It describes the range of alternative/augmented communication systems used and the barriers to communication about abuse. Staff generally accepted the importance of providing the appropriate vocabulary in augmented communication systems, but systems that provide such vocabulary were not widely used. Staff considered that a major difficulty concerned the level of understanding disabled children might have about concepts of abuse. Staff felt that discovery of abuse was more likely to come from them noticing physical signs, behaviour or mood changes than from the child communicating explicitly about abuse. Highlights the need for appropriate training and increased coordination between social work, health and education.
Challenging fundamental assumptions about mental health service users and work
- Authors:
- RINALDI Miles, HILL Robert
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 5(2), May 2001, pp.5-10.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
New research challenges three commonly held assumptions; that mental health service users do not want to work, that work will make their condition worse, and that what they are really best suited to is sheltered work. Re-examines these assumptions in the light of interviews with service users and employers.