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What can assistive technology offer disabled adults?
- Author:
- RESEARCH IN PRACTICE FOR ADULTS
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice for Adults
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
This briefing presents an overview of assistive technology and explains how it is a key component of the independence agenda, helping disabled people gain greater control over their social environment.
Navigating healthcare: gateways to cancer screening
- Authors:
- DEVANEY Julie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 24(6), October 2009, pp.715-726.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The first phase in the Gateways to Cancer Screening project - a user-driven participatory research project that examines barriers and facilitators to preventive cancer screening for women with physical mobility disabilities is reported. Through a systematic review of the literature it was found, despite the fact that women with disabilities have the same biological risk of developing cancer as non-disabled women, women with mobility impairments face systemic, architectural, procedural and attitudinal barriers to preventive cancer screening. The goals of the project are to identify barriers and facilitators to screening, identify the gaps in the existing literature related to issues of diversity and ultimately set the stage for disabled women to effect change through the telling of their own stories.
Physical and social barriers to social relationships: voices of rural disabled women in the USA
- Authors:
- TAUB Diane E., McLORG Penelope A., BARTNICK April K.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 24(2), March 2009, pp.201-215.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Through exploring the lived experiences of disabled women, this study investigates how physical and social barriers affect their social relationships. In-depth tape-recorded interviews investigating a variety of social and interpersonal issues were conducted with 24 women with physical or visual impairments who lived in a rural region of the midwestern USA. Using content analysis, the researchers examined interview data for common themes and patterns relating to social relationships. The findings indicate that physical barriers, related to the physical environment and personal physicality, along with social barriers, involving preconceptions of others about impairment and restrictions in personal networks, hamper the initiation and maintenance of social relationships. Further, the experiences of this group of disabled women corresponded most closely with the premises of a social relational understanding of disability.