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Disability is natural: revolutionary common sense for raising children with disabilities
- Author:
- SNOW Kathie
- Publisher:
- Braveheart Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 632p.
- Place of publication:
- Woodland Park, CO
Children with disabilities, under the loving guidance of their parents-the true experts-can lead successful, natural lives at home, in school, and in their communities. The first step to ensure children lead successful, natural lives requires us to recognize that disability is not the "problem." The problem is, and always has been, society's attitude toward, and social policies for, children and adults with disabilities. Parents can learn common sense techniques for raising successful children with disabilities. When it is recognized that disability is a natural part of the human experience, new attitudes lead to new actions for successful lives at home, in school and in communities. When parents replace today's conventional wisdom with the common sense values and creative thinking, all children with disabilities (regardless of age or type of disability) can live the life of their dreams. It is necessary to define a child by his or her assets - instead of a disability-related "problem," and to create new and improved partnerships with educators, health care professionals, family and friends.
Learning to listen: consulting children and young people with disabilities
- Author:
- LEWIS Maddy
- Publisher:
- Save the Children UK
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disabled young people have the same rights as everybody else, but their needs often have to be met differently. For instance, all young people have the right to have a say in decisions that affect them. It can be hard enough for a non-disabled teenager to get adults to understand them, but for a young person who isn't able to speak or write things down, it can be impossible unless others find alternative ways of communicating with them - for example, through body language or special equipment. Many disabled young people's needs aren't properly met because the mainstream idea that social exclusion means not having a job, training or qualifications doesn't necessarily apply to them. The isolation felt by many disabled young people will only disappear when adults - from parents and teachers to doctors and government policy-makers - learn how to consult and listen to them.
A review of key worker systems for disabled children and the development of information guides for parents, children and professionals: a report for the Wales Office of Research and Development
- Authors:
- LIABO Kirstin, et al
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Services to families with disabled children are increasingly delivered through a multi agency model. This model recognises the position of families and parents as being the most crucial resource for the care of children. However, research shows that many services still fail to empower parents in their role, and to help them to access services to which they are entitled.
Factfile 2001: facts and figures about children in the UK
- Author:
- NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOME
- Publisher:
- National Children's Home
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains statistical and other information on: population characteristics; family costs, income and poverty; children, housing and homelessness; children and disability; education and health; children at risk; crime; and children in care.
The Keyworker: a practical guide; a comprehensive description and evaluation of the one hundred hours model for supporting the families of children who have disabilities
- Author:
- LIMBRICK-SPENCER Gudrun
- Publisher:
- WordWorks|Handsel Trust
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Provides a description of the practicalities providing a keyworker service for the families of children who have a disability. Details the work of One Hundred Hours, an independent agency in West Yorkshire which developed and used the keyworker model throughout the 1990s. Contents include: the development of the One Hundred Hours keyworker model; examples of keywork in action; working with Simon and his family: a case study; an evaluation of the model; implications for service development; keyworker protocols; putting the model into practice; sources of further information on keyworking.