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Developing Connexions: young people with disabilities, mental health needs or autistic spectrum disorders
- Authors:
- ROWLAND-CROSBY Nic, GIRAUD-SAUNDERS Alison, SWIFT Paul
- Publisher:
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 141p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report outlines a two and half year project evaluating the support offered by the new Connexions Service to young people with learning difficulties, physical impairments, to young deaf people, those with visual impairments, young people experiencing mental health problems or those with autistic spectrum disorders. The project covered five Connexions Services across the country. Lessons for good practice are outlined and recommendations for future service improvements made.
Independent living for physically disabled people
- Authors:
- CREWE N.M., et al
- Publisher:
- Jossey-Bass
- Publication year:
- 1983
- Pagination:
- xxiii,406p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- San Francisco, CA
The implications of disability protests for social work practice
- Author:
- BARNARTT Sharon N.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 6(1/2), 2007, pp.195-215.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The demands made by over 800 disability protests in the USA are examined. Across all impairment types, these include accessibility of buildings, transport and communication; and equal opportunity in relation to employment, education and independent living. Impairment-specific demands have also been made. Those with mobility difficulties have campaigned for routine accessibility not only of public buildings but of private homes. People with hearing problems focus on communication issues, but also want the recognition and acceptance of deaf culture. This has, for example, led to an interest in the relative merits of mainstream or specialist education, and a negative attitude among some deaf people to cochlear implants. Among blind people, demands have focused on transport and building accessibility, and wages and conditions in sheltered employment. For those with psychiatric impairments, key issues are patient rights and the challenging of stigma, while for those with severe developmental disabilities abuse within institutional settings remains a problem. The implications of these demands for social workers are briefly discussed. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
The web: access and inclusion for disabled people: a formal investigation conducted by the Disability Rights Commission
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 48p.
This report demonstrates that most websites are inaccessible to many disabled people and fail to satisfy even the most basic standards for accessibility recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium. It is also clear that compliance with the technical guidelines and the use of automated tests are only the first steps towards accessibility: there can be no substitute for involving disabled people themselves in design and testing, and for ensuring that disabled users have the best advice and information available about how to use assistive technology, as well as the access features provided by Web browsers and computer operating systems. Disabled people must frequently overcome additional obstacles before they can enjoy the full range of information, services, entertainment and social interaction offered by the Web: blind people need sites to provide, for example, text as an alternative to images for translation into audible or legible words by specially designed screenreading devices; partially sighted people may be especially reliant upon large-format text and effective colour contrast; people who are dyslexic or have cognitive impairments may benefit in particular from the use of simpler English or alternative text formats, such as Easy Read, and from the clear and logical layout of an uncluttered website; people whose first language is British Sign Language may also find Plain English indispensable; and people with manual dexterity impairments may need to navigate with a keyboard rather than with a mouse.
A jigsaw of services: inspection of services to support disabled adults in their parenting role; key messages for practitioners and first line managers
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary and key messages from an inspection of local authority services to parents with disabilities, learning difficulties, sensory impairments, or who are chronically sick.
A jigsaw of services: inspection of services to support disabled adults in their parenting role
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 64p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
Inspection of local authority support and services for parents with disabilities, including disabled people, people with learning difficulties, people with sensory impairments, and chronically sick people.
A jigsaw of services: inspection of services to support disabled adults in their parenting role
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter accompanying inspection report.
Unmet need in community care: an analysis of policy and literature on need and unmet need, and a study of practitioners' concepts of unmet need
- Authors:
- KEDDIE David, BAUMANN Matthew
- Publisher:
- Dorset. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 60p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dorchester
Report looking at the difficulties in recording unmet need, and at the key characteristics of unmet need, focusing on Dorset. Defines need and unmet need; outlines research methods; and presents summaries of findings for disabled people, older people, people with learning difficulties, people with mental health problems, and people with sensory impairments.
Inspection of services to support disabled adults in their parenting role: Cornwall County Council; May 1999
- Authors:
- GOODINGE S., BARWOOD A
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. West Inspecti
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Inspection of services to support disabled adults in their parenting role: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council; June 1999
- Authors:
- GOODINGE S., BIRTWISLE T., CLARK J
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate, Western Inspe
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol