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In whose service? A review of the development of services for disabled people
- Author:
- FRENCH Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Traces the history of welfare provision for disabled people from the Middle Ages, through the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the medical profession, the Eugenics movement, post-war services, deinstitutionalisation and the role of disabled people.
Engaging with the disability rights movement: the experience of community-based rehabilitation in southern Africa
- Author:
- MILES Susie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(4), December 1996, pp.501-517.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Argues that unless community-based rehabilitation (CBR) programmes enter into genuine consultation with the disability rights movement they are in danger of repeating the mistakes of institution-based rehabilitation. Partnership between CBR programmes, and disabled people's and parents' organisations in southern Africa has led to the development of a more consumer focused approach to CBR where disabled adults and parents have been fully involved in the design and implementation of programmes, CBR workers have a clearer understanding of disability as a development issue. Education, employment and poverty alleviation have been given a higher priority than medical rehabilitation in these programmes. The evolving concept of CBR and its relationship with the disability rights movement has been observed and documented by The Save the Children Fund, and forms the basis of this paper.
Independent living: gender, violence and the threat of violence
- Authors:
- HENDEY Nicola, PASCALL Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(3), June 1998, pp.415-427.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Explores the perceptions and concerns of young adults with severe physical disabilities about independent living, access to services and the meeting of needs. Young women especially experienced difficulties about leaving home, because of their own and their parents' fears about vulnerability; some who did leave home experienced highly restricted social lives because of anxiety about neighbourhood violence. Found that few had established partnerships, but violence and sexual abuse from partners emerged as an issue for which there is little policy.
The disability rights movement: from charity to confrontation
- Authors:
- FLEISHER Doris Zames, ZAMES Freida
- Publisher:
- Temple University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 278p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, PA
This book, a history of the American disability movement, documents the evolution of attitudes from isolation and charity to confrontation and rights; from sheltered workshops to independent living; from 'cripples' and 'invalids' to people with disabilities. Contents include: deinstitutionalisation and independent living; disability rights legislation; the struggle for change; access to jobs and health care; physician assisted suicide; disability and technology; disabled veterans; education; identity and culture.