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Families with children with disabilities - inequalities and the social model
- Authors:
- DOWLING Monica, DOLAN Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(1), January 2001, pp.21-35.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article suggests that families with children with disabilities experience a range of inequalities that families with children without disabilities do not suffer. It draws on a recent qualitative study to illustrate the way in which it is not just disabled people, but in the case of disabled children, whole families that suffer from unequal opportunities and outcomes. Draws on the social model of disability to show that the lives of these families are often characterised by financial hardship, stress and anxiety as a result of social barriers, prejudices and poorly conceived service provision. The social model of disability is usually drawn upon to illustrate the way in which social organisations disable people with impairments. In this instance, we illustrate the way in which social organisations disable not just the family member who has an impairment, but the whole family unit. By applying this model of disability, new ways of creating practices and policies for these families can be developed which incorporate their views into the heart of the policy-making process.
Growing gains
- Authors:
- ROONEY Chris, CHAMBERLAIN M Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.2.98, 1998, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The authors explain how the Leeds Young Adult Team supports young disabled people in the sometimes difficult move towards independence and adulthood.
Dropping 'E's: the missing link in quality assurance for disabled people
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 44/45, Autumn 1995, pp.7-21.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Community Care reforms have revived interest in service quality. Argues that the definition of service quality is valued-led and that dominant ideologies have contributed to the continued oppression of disabled people. The design of quality assurance systems is considered and it is suggested that organisations controlled by disabled people have a central role to play in providing disablement services. Two conclusions are drawn. First, service quality cannot on its own be a sufficient condition for disabled people's emancipation. Second, 'quality' has been used as a policy substitute for the necessary condition of 'equality'.
Good practice guidelines
- Author:
- BARNARDO's
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Barkingside
These good practice guidelines are intended for services which seek to support young disabled people in their transition to adulthood. The guidelines concern what service providers should try to do. They are based on what young disabled people themselves have said about what helps and does not help in the experience of growing up and becoming more independent.
An introduction to disability studies
- Author:
- JOHNSTONE David
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 186p, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd
Disability studies is now a legitimate area of academic study. It is multidisciplinary in its critique of oppressions that have historically 'dumped' people on the margins of society. Contents include: critical factors in community care and independent living; legislation in the UK and USA; what is the meaning of quality of life?; euthanasia and the new eugenics; disability research; medical health and disability; the enabling environment.
Enduring exclusion
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Search, 34, Winter 2000, pp.18-21.
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Looks at the new research which analyses the impact of government policies designed to promote employment opportunities for disabled people over the last 20 years.