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Take your seats
- Author:
- LAWTON Smith
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, June 2003, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Looks at the election of the UK's first ever disabled people's parliament, an initiative led by the British Council of Disabled People. The aim is for the parliament to be a collective national voice feeding into national issues.
Disability through the lens of culture
- Author:
- TOWER Kristine D.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2(2/3), 2003, pp.5-22.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Effective social work requires cultural sensitivity and competency. Until recently, there was little discussion of culture outside of the contexts of race or ethnicity. This American article is an exploration of the key components of culture with application to the community of people with disabilities. The language, history, stigmatization, economic concerns, common behaviors, and practices of people with disabilities are highlighted. A literature review of sensitivity and competency in crosscultural practice is provided. The article furnishes insights into the lived experience of disability. Suggestions to help practitioners reduce the risks of harm and improve service to this population are presented. Content on disability culture is proposed for social work educators to infuse into core curriculum or add to diversity electives.
Peering at a solution
- Author:
- WINGHAM Gaynor
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 48, 5.11.03, 2003, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
For young people with disabilities, a new approach of peer mentoring is helping the transition to independence. Looks at the Peer Mentoring Project developed by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People.
Empowerment theory and long-living women: a feminist and disability perspective
- Author:
- MORELL Carolyn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 7(3/4), 2003, pp.225-236.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Empowerment theory is central to social work and to feminist gerontology. Yet an emphasis on increasing power and control over the circumstances of one's life does not neatly “fit” the involuntary bodily realities that figure centrally in the experiences of late age. Argues that the paradox of late life empowerment is that it requires acceptance and affirmation of the weak, suffering, and uncontrollable body.
Community integration of older people with developmental disabilities in Hong Kong
- Authors:
- NGAN Raymond Man-Hung, LI Mark Kin-yin, CHEUNG Jacky Chau-kiu
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2(2/3), 2003, pp.101-119.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
To understand the community integration of adults with developmental disabilities in Hong Kong, a comprehensive measure includes four dimensions, pertaining to social activity, social services, interpersonal behavior, and people involved in social interaction. Applying this measure to 692 adults (aged 15-62), the territory-wide study finds that these adults lack company for out-of-home activities and community activities despite their higher knowledge, assertiveness, social interaction, and feeling accepted in the community. With the strengthening of many conditions (including knowledge and community support) for community integration, the adults tend to have greater need for empowerment to enhance their active participation in community activities.
I used to sit there until no one noticed me. Now if I need something I'll ask for it
- Author:
- STANISTREET Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 15(1), September 2003, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
Reports on ACE (Access to Community Education), a pioneering group in Brixham, Devon, run by disabled people for disabled people. Originally set up to provide educational, social and leisure opportunities for disabled people and their carers, ACE is now changing attitudes towards disabled people and increasing the confidence of disabled people themselves.
Home adaptations: user perspectives on the role of professionals
- Authors:
- PICKING Clare, PAIN Helen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 66(1), January 2003, pp.2-8.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Reports on a study which asked people with disabilities whether they believed that they received appropriate professional support, information and practical help when adapting their homes and which sought to learn more about their feelings about the adaptation process. A qualitative research method, using three focus groups in different geographical areas, was carried out with a purposive sample of participants who had received adaptations to their homes and had been assisted by their local authorities. The study suggested that when problems arose or delays were experienced during the building process, an occupational therapist was not the only appropriate professional to provide support. The study also suggested that, given sufficient information and choice, some people with disabilities preferred to organise their own adaptations, could manage with minimal professional intervention and should be empowered to do so.
International perspectives on disability services: the same but different
- Editor:
- YUEN Francis K.O.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Social Work Practice Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 141p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
This book covers a range of topics on disabilities related to physical status, emotional conditions, and community settings. This useful introductory reference will help you develop culturally sensitive disability services both locally and overseas, and it will promote better understanding of people with disabilities. The book is an examination of services for people with disabilities as they exist in several countries. Until recently, cultural context was used to describe race or ethnicity, but this text recognizes people with disabilities as a worldwide community that is advocating for equality and respect. The book focuses on the need for human and social services that endorse capability and empowerment, promoting the person rather than the disability.
Tell them who i was': the social construction of aphasia
- Author:
- MACKAY Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(6), October 2003, pp.811-826.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article addresses people with aphasia. Talking (communication) is linked to the medical ideology and the social ideology. The medical ideology complements capitalism and promotes the individual. The medical ideology has the power for requiring 'normal' language. One speech therapist says, '...take away hope but it is a rare person who can go back to talking normally as they did before'. The medical ideology takes people with aphasia and constructs the incompetence which marginalises them from the work force and sometimes from their families. The medical ideology encourages dependency, which is disempowering. The social ideology under a different notion of talking encourages people to engage in two-way communication. The author looks at sharing information with a sense of humour, which is empowering. He illustrates that people with aphasia have to operate between the two ideologies.
The paradox of disability culture: the need to combine versus the imperative to let go
- Author:
- GAVIN Rose
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(5), August 2003, pp.675-690.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article seeks to demonstrate that, to function as a truly emancipatory phenomenon, disability culture must be relieved of the paradox that keeps it trapped in modernist assumptions that serve to reinforce its marginalised status. The paradox of disability culture may be stated as follows. How can disabled people claim unity without falling into the same exclusionary practices that have served to create their divisive identifications in the first place? Conversely, how can they relinquish the practices of identification that are based on binary oppositions without losing the ability to claim identities at all? The author argues that, by extricating it from its origins in essentialist assumptions, disability culture can be reinvigorated as a truly emancipatory device, which is capable of devising positive identities which, rather than celebrating the 'disabled identity', rely on its dissolution.