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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.
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- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 9, December 2001, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the key legislative and policy changes for people with disabilities over the last few years.
Subversive political praxis: supporting choice, power and control for people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- THOMPSON S. A.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(6), October 2003, pp.719-736.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper is drawn from research conducted with gay and bisexual men with learning difficulties, a project that included participants' various struggles to self-identify within these alternative sexualities. Significant parts of this identity work were mitigated by participation in what is referred to here as 'politically radical support groups'. Three facilitators of these groups, professionals in the areas of sex education, were interviewed and a common itinerary was uncovered, namely a subversive and political praxis. At its heart, such praxis argues that educational endeavours for people with learning difficulties must not only account for disabling practices, but more importantly, maximally prioritise the mitigation of such prejudice within educational activities. Furthermore, it is argued that political praxis is not merely theoretical; six practical strategies are offered. In these ways, caregivers are offered concrete approaches to (genuinely) support the choice, power and control for people with learning difficulties.
Rewards for excellence
- Author:
- MAPP Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.5.98, 1998, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
As the countdown begins for the 1998 Community Care Awards, looks back at last year's winners and finds out what it will take for this year's entrants to win awards for their projects.