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Being there
- Authors:
- ANDERBERG Peter, JÖNSSON Bodil
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(7), December 2005, pp.719-733.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article examines the use of the Internet as experienced by people with significant mobility/physical impairments who are accustomed to using computers. The study is based on interviews and focuses on computer usage in everyday action and interaction. Contact with the majority of participants was established through the Swedish Internet Centre in Tenerife, Spain. In many cases, the possibilities that the computer and Internet offer have meant not only important improvements in quality of life, but first-time occurrences of great personal significance. The analysis is phenomenographic, resulting in main categories and subcategories, illustrated primarily through direct quotations. The three main categories are independence, communication, and learning.
Service provision for an independent life
- Authors:
- HELGOY Ingrid, RAVEBERG Bodil, SOLVANG Per
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(4), June 2003, pp.471-487.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the question of how an independent daily life is possible for disabled people when relying upon professional service provision and the bureaucratic gate-keeping systems of the welfare state in relation to an interview study. Eighteen mobility disabled and 20 service providers in one local setting in Norway were interviewed. Highlights at least three categories regarding how independence is interpreted among the disabled: the super-normal, the independent living activists, and those experiencing powerlessness and lack of support. The analysis points out how these categories are constructed in relations between the disabled person, professional service providers and the gate-keeping systems of the welfare bureaucracy.
My assistant and I: disabled children's and adolescents' roles and relationships to their assistants
- Authors:
- SKAR Lisa, TAMM Maare
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(7), December 2001, pp.917-931.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Presents a grounded theory study to describes how children and adolescents with restricted mobility perceive their assistant with a focus on their roles and relationships with one another. The group investigated consisted of 13 children and adolescents with restricted mobility from northern Sweden, aged from 8 to 19 years. The findings showed that relation towards/from the assistant were both mutual and non-mutual, and that there were relations that by the children/adolescents were perceived as ambivalent and unequal. The findings are discussed on the basis of the significance of these roles and relations in the children and adolescents' development.
Volunteering by people with disabilities: a route to opportunity
- Author:
- NIYAZI Filiz
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Volunteering
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One way in which disabled people can demonstrate their independence is by taking up voluntary work. The problem is, however, that the premises are not always physically accessible. Their advertising does not always make it clear that disabled people are as welcome as anyone else. Despite their much-vaunted equal opportunities policies, they are not always prepared to foot the bill for the extra support disabled volunteers sometimes need (there are not always extra costs involved). And the kind of training they provide for their volunteers rarely takes account of disabled people in its design, content and delivery.