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The centrality of impairment in the empowerment of people with severe physical impairments: independent living and the threat of incarceration: a human right
- Author:
- HOUSTON Stewart
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 19(4), June 2004, pp.307-321.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
To research what empowerment and independent living meant to physically impaired people with severe impairments, and to consider whether their understanding and interpretation of empowerment equates to the politically generated version of empowerment and independent living as described in the Direct Payments Act 1996. An important element of the research was to consider the issue of impairment in the empowerment of physically impaired people with severe impairments within current social models of disability, i.e. current field of disability studies the need for a social model of impairment. As the research progressed it became evident that the Direct Payments Act was not about empowerment, but rather a process of 'enablement' in which the principles of empowerment and independent living espoused by physically impaired people was fundamentally different to the politically-generated version inherent within the Act itself. The findings revealed that empowerment and independent living transcended the realms of the political rhetoric of 'enablement' and was seen as a rights issue in which 'the right to live in ones own home or accommodation within mainstream society and community without fear of incarceration in a residential institution' was accorded the status of a fundamental human right.
The state of independence
- Author:
- KESTENBAUM Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.2.96, 1996, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks whether government proposals for direct payments to disabled people are as comprehensive and wide-ranging as they ought to be.
Growing pains
- Author:
- WHITELEY Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.1.96, 1996, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disability groups have welcomed plans to legislate for direct payments so people can buy their own care. However, there are still widespread concerns the government's Bill does not go far enough.
Valuing diversity: the disability agenda: we've only just begun
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.471-478.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
If society is to value all its disabled people, it needs to find ways of making this collective minority powerful enough to influence the future. Shaping the future is something the Disabled People's Movement has been preoccupied with for decades. The key is unlock some of the fundamental principles of the social model of disability. This model has the potential to transform disabled people's lives. It has become the disability movement's tool for social inclusion.