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Disability and the life course: global perspectives
- Editor:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 252p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Explores the global experience of disability using a novel life course approach. The book explores how disabling societies impact on disabled peoples' life experiences and highlights the ways in which disabled people have acted to take more control over their own lives
A Supported employment workbook: individual profiling and job matching
- Author:
- LEACH Steve
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 221p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
For all job developers in the disability and employment field, this workbook presents strategies based on real situations. It emphasises the importance of self determination, ensuring that the individual makes his/her own choices to determine a future career. Contents include: the supported employment process; initial contact; the vocational profile; job searching and marketing; job analysis; support review process; progression to unsupported employment.
The decision to go: disabled children at residential schools and the role of social services departments
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, MORRIS Jenny, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 14(1), 2002, pp.5-16.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Sending a disabled child to a specialist residential school may mean that live for much of the year at a school a long way from home. This article explores the views of social services staff on residential schools and the issues the face around how best to work with families who are thinking about a residential school for their child.
Genetics: a quest for perfection
- Author:
- CAPLAN Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 74(1), January 2001, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
The author discusses the choices facing pregnant women over screening and diagnostic tests and how these choices affect disabled people.
Residential schools and disabled children: decision-making and experiences
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
A previous stage of this research explored the policies and practices of 21 local authorities on placing a disabled child at residential school (see Findings 420). Follow-on research in four authorities explored the circumstances in which disabled children and young people came to be at residential school. The study involved observing at decision-making panel meetings, interviewing key professionals, parents and also disabled children and young people currently at residential school.
Factors affecting placement of children in kinship and nonkinship foster care
- Authors:
- BEEMAN Sandra, KIM Hyungomo, BULLERDICK Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 22(1), January 2000, pp.37-54.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This study examines the relationship of child and case characteristics to the placement in kinship and nonkinship foster care of over 2,000 children in a Midwestern urban county in the USA. The analysis indicates that older children, children without disabilities, black and minority ethnic children, children court-ordered into placement, and children whose reason for placement was parental substance abuse are more likely to be placed in kinship foster care. Recommendations are made for future research on the decision to place children in kinship foster care.
A resource pack: developing a key worker service for families with a disabled child
- Authors:
- MUKHERJEE Suzanne, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 72p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This resource pack offers research-based advice on how to develop and implement a key worker services for families with a disabled child. The pack takes the reader through each phase of the process, with examples of activities and exercises which can assist in planning and decision making for each phase. Issues addressed include: what the services should look like; managing change; how to support the service; and facilitating multi-agency steering groups. The pack is aimed at managers and development workers within education services, health services, social services and voluntary organisations.
Information to families with disabled children
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The importance of relevant and accessible information about services for families with disabled children has been highlighted in numerous studies and re-emphasised by Quality Protects. These studies have also shown that this need is frequently not met. This project, conducted by researchers from the University of York, explored the criteria by which parents judge the quality of information and their ideas of good practice in this area. Presents the findings.
Consultation: plan of action or management exercise?
- Authors:
- TOWNSON Louise, CHAPMAN Ross
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 12(4), April 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Consultation is one of the 'four Cs' of the government's Best Value initiative. The authors argue that consultation in its own right is not enough, and that people should be involved on committees right through to the top if a real change is to take place.
Parenting and employment decisions of parents with a preschool child with a disability
- Authors:
- CUSKELLY Monica, PULMAN Lara, HAYES Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 23(4), December 1998, pp.319-332.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Twenty couples, each with a young child with a disability, and 20 matched couples with a normally developing child were interviewed about their current employment status, their reasons for their status and their attitudes towards parenting.