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Personal assistance for students with disabilities in HE: the experience of the University of London
- Author:
- PARKER Viv
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(4), July 1999, pp.483-504.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the experience of students using personal assistants from the University of East London. The issues explored were: funding; the employer-employee role and employment matters; power and authority relationships; personal, family and professional relationships with assistants, other students, tutors and staff, and access to non-academic activities and the management of assistants.
Together we can plan my future: the needs of school leavers with a visual impairment and additional disabilities
- Author:
- SeeABILITY
- Publisher:
- SeeABILITY
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 79p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leatherhead
Report focusing on the needs of young people with a visual impairment who also have additional disabilities and who are about to leave school in the West Country. Includes sections on: a profile of the West of England; the young people's disabilities; their future needs; the needs of parents; and summary of key findings.
On small shoulders: learning from the experiences of former carers
- Authors:
- FRANK Jenny, TATUM Chris, TUCKER Chris
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 39p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains accounts by adults, who as children looked after sick or disabled relatives. Missed education, underdeveloped social skills, psychological and physical illness and restricted career opportunities were common experiences. Other issues were lack of support from agencies, and the frequent need of families to hide the true facts from public view. Concludes with recommendations on future policy and practice for service providers.