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Different paths: challenging services; a study of the housing experiences of black and minority ethnic disabled and D/deaf people
- Authors:
- BUTT Jabeer, DHALIWAL Sukhwant
- Publisher:
- Habinteg Housing Association
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 54p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents a study into the housing experiences of black and minority ethnic disabled and D/deaf (disabled deaf) people. Through focus groups involving BME disabled and D/deaf service users and their carers and statutory, public and voluntary sector service providers in the London Boroughs of Brent, Camden and Waltham Forest, it explores: how disabled and D/deaf people from BME communities access appropriate housing; the disadvantages and barriers participants identified as preventing them from securing suitable accommodation and services; the key issue of whether their needs are best met by responding to them as a distinct group – as opposed to perceiving them simply as members of ‘BME’ or ‘disabled’ communities; and opportunities for conferring greater choice and control to BME disabled and D/deaf people.
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.
Service provision for preschool children who are deaf: parents' perspectives
- Authors:
- ROBINSHAW Helen, EVANS Roy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2(1), 2003, pp.3-39.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The data reported have been derived from the first national review of preschool service provision for deaf children and their families. This paper examines the kinds of service provision seen as desirable by families with deaf children between 0 and 5 years of age in relation to current UK Government interest in: Universal Neonatal Hearing Screening, family support initiatives including a focus on parent-professional partnerships, and Inclusive Education. Data presented including families' responses to early identification; the information available following identification; perceptions of their own partnerships with professionals; and the value of family centred services for themselves, their children, and for family life. From these data, aspects of good practice are identified and illustrated for consideration in future service development. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Jargons for deafness as institutional constructions of the deaf body
- Author:
- ROSEN R. S.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(7), December 2003, pp.921-934.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Jargons for deafness are seen here as social institutional constructions of the deaf body. Social institutions develop agendas commensurate with their view of the place of deaf people in society, create jargons to define its deaf clientele base and proffer programmes to construct them. This study examines current jargons developed by constellations of 'healing', 'helping' and 'agencist' social institutions developed in the USA since 1990 in light of their purposes and practices.
Sensory wellbeing
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 24, November 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Provides key information and statistics on sensory impairments.
Inspection of services for people with a physical or sensory impairment in Torfaen borough council, February 2001
- Author:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publisher:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 78p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Peer support groups and young black and minority ethnic disabled and deaf people
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Peer support is important to all young people, but previous research has shown that young Asian, Caribbean and African disabled and Deaf people have limited knowledge of where to get this support. Yet some do go to local peer support groups to spend time with other young black and minority ethnic people who have similar experiences. Researchers from the REU spent time with young people in five peer support groups to learn more about their groups and what they valued from them.
Within reach: an evaluation of the schools access initiative
- Author:
- SCOPE
- Publisher:
- National Union of Teachers
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This study evaluates the Schools Access Initiative (SAI), which aims to increase access to mainstream schools for pupils with a physical or sensory impairment. The aim of the study is to follow up on to earlier reports: ‘Within reach: a study’ (1992) and ‘Within reach: the school survey’ (1993). These earlier reports were the basis for a campaign which preceded the introduction of SAI. A sample of eight LEAs and twenty seven schools are used as a basis for the report. Attitudes to inclusion; LEA knowledge of accessibility; views on management of the SAI; and sufficiency of the SAI are looked at.
Autism: a sensorimotor approach to management
- Editor:
- HUEBNER Ruth A.
- Publisher:
- Aspen
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 510p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Gaithersberg, MD
Presents an extensive literature review of the current literature on the incidence and management of sensory and motor dysfunction in autism; includes papers on the neuropsychology of autism, sensory processing, attachment theory, and play therapy; offers new ideas for assessment and intervention using the sensorimotor approach; integrates the insights of researchers, clinicians, parents and people with autism; and uses chapter objectives, discussion questions and case studies in each paper.
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.