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Information: a key to empowerment; a strategy for information for disabled people on the Isle of Wight; report of a six week study tour ... for the Community Health Services Isle of Wight District Health Authority
- Author:
- DAWSON Ruth
- Publisher:
- Isle of Wight District Health Authority. Community Health Services
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 39p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Newport
Report focusing on the role that information plays in improving the quality of life of disabled people, with the aim of producing a workable strategy for information provision.
Empowerment social work with physically disabled people
- Author:
- HOLDSWORTH Lisa
- Publisher:
- University of East Anglia
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 41p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Norwich
An exploration of the potential of empowerment social work to offer a service to physically handicapped people that takes into account their self-defined service needs and their rights to remain in control of their own lives.
Enabling disabled doctors: scoping exercise
- Authors:
- MORGAN Laura, CHAMBERS Ruth
- Publisher:
- Disabled Doctors Action Group
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- Stoke-on-Trent
This report is on a piece of research commissioned by the Disabled Doctors Action Group. The project was a scoping exercise to derive information about sources of help and enablement for disable doctors who wish to work in the NHS and have a fulfilling career. The report also identifies gaps for future research. The Disabled Doctors Action Group evolved from a group of concerned champions acting on behalf of the delegates attending a seminar sponsored by West Midlands Deanery, BMJ Careers, Staffordshire University and NIMHE.
Paths to empowerment
- Editors:
- BARNES Marian, WARREN Lorna
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 148p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
In two sections. Section one looks at definitions of empowerment, and existing models and practice. Section two discusses issues for research and researchers. Includes illustrations of different, and sometimes conflicting, voices to emerge from within the user movement and from among voluntary and statutory sector allies.
Disability politics: understanding our past, changing our future
- Authors:
- CAMPBELL Jane, OLIVER Mike
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Written by disabled people with the aim of enabling other people with disabilities to understand their past and change their future. Examines the changes in the profile of disabled people throughout Britain over the last 15 years, including the emergence of the disability movement. Concludes by considering possible future directions for disabled people in 21st Century Britain.
Self-determination across the life span: independence and choice for people with disabilities
- Editors:
- SANDS Deanna J., WEHMEYER Michael L.
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 374p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Written by adults with disabilities, parents of children with disabilities, and professionals working in the field, this collection of papers offers a wide range of suggestions on promoting self determination for disabled people. Looks at how to: encourage the growth of self esteem; incorporate self determination skills into educational programmes; begin skill training in the home; promote self determination throughout the life span; and how to evaluate the progress of skill acquisition.
Physical disabilities: report of seminars held during 1993
- Author:
- SOUTH EAST INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
- Publisher:
- South East Institute of Public Health
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- Tunbridge Wells
Report from two seminars: the transition of adolescents with special needs from child to adult services; and enabling disabled people.
Information enables: improving access to information services for disabled people; papers presented at the NDIP's 1993 conference
- Author:
- NATIONAL DISABILITY INFORMATION PROJECT
- Publisher:
- Policy Studies Institute
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 67p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains conference papers on: the right to know; the place of information provision in the disability movement; the role of the statutory sector in supporting local information services; informing people with learning disabilities; informing people about disability benefits; and information as an enabling tool.
The cultural politics of the paralympic movement: through an anthropological lens
- Author:
- HOWE P. David
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 187p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to spectacle, and the profile of athletes with disabilities has been increased as a result. This book reviews the current status of the Paralympics and challenges the mainstream assumption that the Games are a vehicle for empowerment of the disabled community. Using ethnographic methods unique in this area of study, P. David Howe has undertaken an innovative and critical examination of the social, political and economic processes shaping the Paralympic Movement. In The Cultural Politics of the Paralympic Movement he presents his findings and offers a new insight into the relationship between sport, the body and the culture of disability. In doing so he has produced the most comprehensive and radical text about high performance sport for the disabled yet published.
Count me in!: a resource pack on disability issues
- Authors:
- TORRENS Shirley, et al
- Publisher:
- British Red Cross,|National Youth Agency
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 71p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This pack is the work of Count Me In!, a national working group of young Red Cross volunteers – many of whom have some form of disability. It is full of activities suitable for use in youth work and other educational settings and aims to raise awareness of disability issues and help you work towards the full inclusion of young disabled people in the widest range of youth activities.