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From leisure and disability to disability leisure: developing data, definitions and discourses
- Authors:
- CLARE Linda, COX Sylvia
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(7), December 2003, pp.935-955.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Although both disability studies and leisure studies have grown to become influential subject fields in their own right, there has been little discursive exchange between the two fields. This article seeks to address these equally significant gaps in disability research within leisure studies and leisure research within disability studies. Empirical data examining the role of leisure in the lives of a group of young people with cerebral palsy are introduced to contextualise definitions and discourses of leisure and disability. The article demonstrates that, for many young disabled people, the role of leisure in tackling social exclusion remains within the realms of policy rhetoric, rather than everyday reality. The dissonance between these agendas and actualities is reviewed in relation to definitions and discourses of disability and leisure evident in wider social policies, and in relation to definitions, discourses and models of disability that remain dominant within leisure provision.
Life as a disabled child: a qualitative study of young people's experiences and perspectives
- Authors:
- WATSON Nick, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Edinburgh
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The main aim of this report is to explore young disabled children's experiences and their perceptions of impairment; of services; and of their social relationships with family, peers and professionals. The authors also sought to examine the role of structural and cultural factors in shaping children's experiences; to make recommendations relevant to policy and practice and to develop appropriate methodological approaches for researching the experiences of young people with a range of impairments.
Valuing diversity: the disability agenda: we've only just begun
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(4), June 2002, pp.471-478.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
If society is to value all its disabled people, it needs to find ways of making this collective minority powerful enough to influence the future. Shaping the future is something the Disabled People's Movement has been preoccupied with for decades. The key is unlock some of the fundamental principles of the social model of disability. This model has the potential to transform disabled people's lives. It has become the disability movement's tool for social inclusion.