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Encouraging a paradigm shift in services for people with disabilities
- Author:
- COCKS Errol
- Publisher:
- Edith Cowan University. Faculty of Health and Human Sciences. Centre for the Dev
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Perth
Paper discussing the belief that human services, particularly services for people with disabilities, are currently dominated by a "modern formal human services paradigm". Because of some of the assumptions inherent in this paradigm and because of broad societal dislocation, it is argued that modern formal human services operate dysfuntionally and contain elements which are inimical to the interests of both vulnerable people and of society. Provides a critique and analysis of the dominant paradigm and presents an alternative model of service provision.
Disabling laws, enabling acts: disability rights in Britain and America
- Author:
- GOODING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Pluto Press
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 238p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that if the law can be used to counter discrimination on the grounds of race and gender, its scope should be extended to disabled people, and that the welfare model of disability should be abandoned in favour of a rights-based perspective.
Defining disability - a position statement by the Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.5-7.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
A paper presented at a conference held in Nottingham in late 1993 'Key Issues in Disability: Rights or Charity, the Future of Welfare'. Considers the 'medical model' or 'individual model' of disability, and the development of the 'social approach' as a politically significant alternative definition.
Multidisciplinary quality assessment: the case of a child development team, part I
- Author:
- HOWARD Lynne M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57(9), September 1994, pp.345-348.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Places the concept of measuring quality in a multidisciplinary team within the context of child health services, with particular reference to provision for children with disabilities. Current preoccupations with measuring quality have been examined, noting that the difficulty of measuring service quality is compounded by quality itself being a concept open to a variety of interpretations. The managerial model of measuring quality of health care in a similar way to industrial quality has been rejected in favour of a qualitative approach, where consumers consider their needs to have been met and staff opinion concurs with this.
Cultural representation of disabled people: dustbins for disavowal?
- Author:
- SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(3), 1994, pp.283-299.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Impairment and imagery are neglected within the social model approaches to disability. This is connected to a neglect of representation. Comparing the experience of disabled people to that of women, the author explores the prejudice underlying cultural representation, using a variety of theoretical models, and concludes by suggesting an explanation for popular prejudice against disabled people.
Issues of empowerment: anti-oppressive groupwork by disabled people in Ireland
- Authors:
- NI CHORCORA Maire, JENNINGS Eddie, LORDAN Nuala
- Journal article citation:
- Groupwork, 7(1), 1994, pp.63-78.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Examines the dilemmas inherent in working to empower marginalised groups. Seeks to analyse the difficulties of a groupwork model which views empowerment as a political process. The authors discuss their experience as disabled people in the development of a group, where members concern and commitment was to overcome their feelings of powerlessness. The paper concludes by identifying key issues in the groupwork process which facilitated empowerment, and enabled members to take control and challenge their oppressors.
Multidisciplinary quality assessment: the case of a child development team, part 2
- Author:
- HOWARD Lynne M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57(10), October 1994, pp.393-397.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The second of three articles. Explains the methodology of the study. The findings of the interviews of a range of staff within the team are explored in detail using the structure-process-outcome model outlined in the first article.
Out in the margins
- Author:
- APPLEBY Yvon
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(1), 1994, pp.19-32.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Using a social construction model of both disability and lesbianism, this paper focuses on the intersection of these two identities in questioning the accessibility of the lesbian community to women who are both lesbian and disabled. Whilst many physical barriers and lack of awareness can contribute to the exclusion of disabled lesbian women from the lesbian community, so also can the unquestioned assumptions by many ablebodied lesbian women that disabled lesbian women are asexual and are somehow 'other', and are 'different' from themselves. Disabled lesbian women may be forced to contend with, and resist, discrimination from both an ablebodied heterosexist society and ablebodied discrimination from within the lesbian community. The challenges of addressing the complex issues of identity commonality, difference, and diversity will be discussed within a feminist perspective.
Why not consider Citizenship?: a critique of post-school transitional models for young disabled people
- Author:
- TISDALL E. Kay M.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(1), 1994, pp.3-17.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The transition from school to 'adulthood', for young disabled people, is generally considered difficult by the relevant literature and service providers in the field. The present transitional models, however, both lack a consensus on the criteria for a 'successful' transition and fail to incorporate the young people into the debate. The young people can be treated with little respect and given little control in transitional decisions, particular as three negative statuses are typically attributed to them when they face transitional services: of being crisis-ridden adolescents, of being needy clients, and of being marginalized members of society. Instead, a transitional model based on citizenship is advocated, which would include re-locating the debate over 'successful' transition criteria with disabled people, altering the present 'transitional service' system to revolve around the young people, and greater connections between disability advocacy organisations and young disabled people.
Quality of life for persons with disabilities: international perspectives and issues
- Editor:
- GOODE David
- Publisher:
- Brookline Books
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 218p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge, MA
Comparative study of the quality of life of people with learning difficulties. Includes papers on: quality of life in the Danish context; a six year study of a quality of life model; Australian legislation, service delivery and quality of life; overview of theory and practice in Germany; quality of life and unemployment among people with disabilities in Hungary; the National Quality of Life for Persons with Disabilities Project in the USA; the California quality of life project; towards an understanding of quality of life in people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities; quality of life and ageing; quality of life at school; training staff in quality of life issues; and the concept of quality of life and its current applications in the field of developmental disabilities.