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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.
Inclusion or exclusion: disabled people in Britain tomorrow; the Leonard Cheshire Lecture; Stationers' Hall, London, Wednesday 13 January 1999
- Author:
- PUTTNAM Lord
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Lecture focusing on three basic themes: the potential of technological change to provide real empowerment for disabled people; the representation of disabled people in the media and arts; and what needs to change before we become a society that can seriously debate and tackle issues surrounding disability.
Still lives: narratives of spinal cord injury
- Author:
- COLE Jonathan
- Publisher:
- MIT Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 330p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The author wanted to find out about living in a wheelchair, without having what he calls "the doctor/patient thing" intervene. He has done this by asking people with spinal cord injuries the simple question of what it is like to live without sensation and movement in the body. If the body has absented itself, where does the person reside? He describes his method in the first chapter: "I have gone to people, not with a white coat or a stethoscope...[but] to listen to their lives as they express them," and it is the narratives of twelve people with spinal cord injuries that form the heart of the book. The twelve people with tetraplegia (known as quadriplegia in the US) or paraplegia whose stories he tells testify to similar impairments but widely differing experiences. The author employs their individual responses to shape the book into six main sections: "Enduring," "Exploring," "Experimenting," "Observing," "Empowering," and, finally, "Continuing." Each concludes with a commentary on the broader issues raised. The book moves from a view of impairment as tragedy to reveal the possibilities and richness of experience available to those living with spinal injuries. In exploring the creative and imaginative adjustments required to construct a "still life," it makes a plea for the able-bodied to adjust their view of this most profound of impairments.
Social work practice with people with disabilities in the era of disability rights
- Authors:
- BEAULAURIER Richard L., TAYLOR Samuel H.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 32(4), 2001, pp.67-91.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Social workers, especially those in health care and rehabilitation systems, must consider practice changes necessitated by recent legislation and the growing activism of disability rights groups. The authors review from an American perspective, essential elements of the emerging sense of both oppression and empowerment that is occurring for many people with disabilities and groups; consider key aspects of ADA and other pertinent legislation that place new emphases on the self-determination of people with disabilities; and discuss what implications changing practice roles might have for social workers' relationships and patterns of interaction with other professionals in medical, health care and rehabilitation settings. The authors also outline a beginning effort at designing a conceptual framework. This framework may also be useful in work with people who have other long term care needs and chronic conditions.
The role of access groups in facilitating accessible environments for disabled people
- Author:
- IMRIE Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 14(4), July 1999, pp.463-482.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article considers the contrasting ways in which disabled people seek to overturn socio-attitudinal, political and physical barriers to their mobility and access requirements in the built environment. It documents how disabled people are attempting to influence the form and content of local authority access practices and policies, through the context and contours of access groups. Concludes by discussing how some of the wider structural and agency-level constraints on disabled people's political and policy interventions in access issues might be removed.