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Support and access in sports and leisure provision
- Author:
- DEVAS Magda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.231-245.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper will look at different ways of enabling people with learning difficulties to engage in leisure opportunities: the Support Model and the Access Model. These models will be put in their social context and then critiqued. The support model will be be contextualised in the theory of normalisation, access in disability theory. The support worker role will be shown to be useful in motivating people with learning difficlties into new activities, as well as having a protecting element, and unwittingly, disguise the level of discrimination people with learning difficulties are subject to. The access worker role will be shown to have strengths in understanding discrimination. With this analysis, it has the potential to dismantle disabling practices. However, the needs of people with learning difficulties have ramifications for disability theory. In practice, that means that ideas of self-advocacy need to be taken on board. Through interviews with sports personnel, social workers and people with learning difficulties, the implications of creating fully comprehensive access will be examined. I will conclude that both effective support and comprehensive access must be in place before people with learning difficulties are able to make a meaningful choice as to how they are enabled to participate in sports. It is only at that point of choice that the two models become complementary rather than competing discourses of provision.
Legislation to counter discrimination against persons with disabilities: report drawn up by the Working Group on Legislation against Discrimination of Persons with Disabilities
- Author:
- STEINMEYER Heinz-Dietrich
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 74p.
- Place of publication:
- Strasbourg
Reviews legislation against discrimination on the grounds of disability in European Union member countries, with reference to such areas as education, mobility , accessibility, employment, health care, sport and leisure. Identifies three means of achieving equality of opportunity: anti-discrimination law, preferential treatment and compensatory measures.
Physical handicap: a guide for the staff of social services departments and voluntary agencies
- Authors:
- BELL Lesley, KLEMZ Astrid
- Publisher:
- Woodhead-Faulkner
- Publication year:
- 1981
- Pagination:
- 263p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Disabled people in Britain and discrimination: a case for anti-discrimination legislation
- Author:
- BARNES Colin
- Publisher:
- British Council of Organisations of Disabled People/Hurst & Co
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 282p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Clay Cross
Challenges the perception that disabled people are clients of social services. Outlines legislative action taken in other countries to ensure that disabled people have the same rights as others. Argues that in Britain we have failed to attack discriminatory practices because of the entrenched charity model of services. Includes chapters on: education; employment; social security; housing and transport; leisure and the influence of the media; and political life.