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In whose service? Technology, care and disabled people: the case for a disability politics perspectives
- Authors:
- JOHNSON Liz, MOXON Eileen
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.241-258.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the introduction of telematics technologies, which are advancing rapidly in Britain and throughout the world, and which impact increasingly on the lives of disabled people. Argues that technology based services have been largely determined by the interests of care service professionals, technologists and the commercial sector. Missing from the debate has been the perspective of the disability movement, which challenges professional hegemony, and introduces important issues such as choice, control and access to the wider environment.
A Supported employment workbook: individual profiling and job matching
- Author:
- LEACH Steve
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 221p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
For all job developers in the disability and employment field, this workbook presents strategies based on real situations. It emphasises the importance of self determination, ensuring that the individual makes his/her own choices to determine a future career. Contents include: the supported employment process; initial contact; the vocational profile; job searching and marketing; job analysis; support review process; progression to unsupported employment.
Support and access in sports and leisure provision
- Author:
- DEVAS Magda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.231-245.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper will look at different ways of enabling people with learning difficulties to engage in leisure opportunities: the Support Model and the Access Model. These models will be put in their social context and then critiqued. The support model will be be contextualised in the theory of normalisation, access in disability theory. The support worker role will be shown to be useful in motivating people with learning difficlties into new activities, as well as having a protecting element, and unwittingly, disguise the level of discrimination people with learning difficulties are subject to. The access worker role will be shown to have strengths in understanding discrimination. With this analysis, it has the potential to dismantle disabling practices. However, the needs of people with learning difficulties have ramifications for disability theory. In practice, that means that ideas of self-advocacy need to be taken on board. Through interviews with sports personnel, social workers and people with learning difficulties, the implications of creating fully comprehensive access will be examined. I will conclude that both effective support and comprehensive access must be in place before people with learning difficulties are able to make a meaningful choice as to how they are enabled to participate in sports. It is only at that point of choice that the two models become complementary rather than competing discourses of provision.