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Meeting the needs of children with disabilities: families and professionals facing the challenge together
- Author:
- WARNER Helen K.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 166p.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Children with disabilities have needs that reflect the needs of every child of their age or stage of development, but in addition they will have other needs that are unique and special to them. This text provides the reader with an insight into the needs of children with both physical and learning disabilities, particularly within an acute care setting.
Babies with anomalies: a Scottish overview
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Programme for Clinical Effectiveness in Reproductive Health
- Publisher:
- ISD Publications
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report aims to provide an overview, based on a range of data sources, of the prevalence of, and mortality due to, all forms of congenital anomoly. In addition, three specific categories of anomoly have been chosen for more detailed study. The selected anomoly are: congenital heart disease, cleft lip and palate and neural tube defects.
Talking about aphasia: living with loss of language after stroke
- Authors:
- PARR Susie, et al
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 157p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Looks at living with aphasia, a language impairment which can result from stroke. Draws on in-depth interviews with fifty aphasic people to explore the experience of aphasia from the dramatic onset of stroke and loss of language to the gradual revelation of its long term consequences.
Disability in Australia: exposing a social apartheid
- Authors:
- GOGGIN Gerard, NEWELL Christopher
- Publisher:
- University of New South Wales Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 245p.
- Place of publication:
- Sydney, NSW
This book names and explore a hidden blight in society: the routine, daily and oppressive treatment of people with disabilities. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from health and welfare, sport, biotechnology, deinstitutionalisation, political life, and the treatment of refugees, this work puts disability firmly on the agenda.
Childhood disability and health and social services policy in Northern Ireland
- Authors:
- MONTEITH M., et al
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
The recent policy and planning developments such as the implementation of the 1995 Children (NI) Order, children’s service planning, and the Health and Well-Being Investment planning have the potential to increase the inclusion of children with disabilities and their families into planning processes and service provision, but as yet none of them have been explicitly dedicated to increasing the quantum of public services available to disabled children. Research to date has shown that the provision of social services to disabled children and their families has been limited, piecemeal and fragmented. The Children (NI) Order brought some re-organisation of these services, alongside some additional funding, but there still remains considerable unmet need.
Improving Disabled People's Access to Health Provision: conference; 28 February 2003, Stirling
- Author:
- IMPROVING DISABLED PEOPLE'S ACCESS TO HEALTH PROVISION CONFERENCE
- Publisher:
- Scottish Human Services Trust
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 134p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Since 1 October 1999, the Disability Discrimination Act has required service providers to make “reasonable adjustments” for disabled people, such as providing extra help or making changes to the way they provide their service. From 1 October 2004, these requirements will be extended in relation to physical barriers to access. The Scottish Executive, NHS Scotland, and Disability Rights Commission believe that improved access to health provision for disabled people should not be led by legislation alone. Improving access is not just about the built environment - it is about developing inclusive attitudes and practices that permeate every aspect of services so that people have their diverse needs recognised. The conference aimed to encourage an open debate about the current position within the NHS and to encourage delegates to champion this agenda in their workplace.
Focusing on cerebral palsy: reviewing and communicating needs for services
- Authors:
- PARKES Jackie, DONNELLY Michael, HILL Nan
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 64p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents an overview of the medical literature published between 1966-1999 on the epidemiology of cerebral palsy. The review includes information about the numbers and needs of people with cerebral palsy, risk factors, and changing trends in the condition. It focuses mainly on children where most is known and provides a medical approach to disability.
The provision of and support for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in Scotland: equipment and services; a report of a working group of the National Paramedical Advisory Committee
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Scottish Office. National Paramedical Advisory Committee
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Scottish Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 62p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Augmentative and alternative communication includes not only equipment but also the totality of principles, techniques and technologies which may be provided to people with severe speech impairments. This report looks at provision and support for this user group in a Scottish context.
Improving disability services: the way forward for health and social services
- Authors:
- BEGUM Nasa, FLETCHER Sheila
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 32p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Quick guide to improving services for disabled people. Aimed at senior managers in health and social services who may have overall responsibility for services for disabled adults, yet not have a detailed involvement at an operational level. Issues looked at include: information; access; advocacy; assessment; accommodation; aids and adaptations; day care; independence; health care; and user involvement. Also looks at legislation and guidance.
The power to change: commissioning health and social services with disabled people
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 46p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out guidelines for those commissioning health and social services for people with physical and/or sensory impairments between the ages of 16 and 65.