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Getting ready for work: a work experience scheme for young people with multiple disabilities and significant support needs
- Author:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- SKILL (National Bureau for Students with Disabilities)
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 16p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Students in mainstream education are all expected to undertake some form of work experience at around the age of 14 or 15. This report describes a project in Liverpool which offers work experience to young, severely disabled people who have traditionally been denied this opportunity.
'Just when you think you got it all sorted...': parental dilemmas in relation to the developing sexuality of young profoundly disabled people
- Authors:
- SWAIN John, THIRLAWAY Carole
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 24(2), 1996, pp.58-64.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Sexuality is a neglected topic in the literature focusing on young profoundly disabled people. For parents and formal carers who work with parents and young people themselves, however, sexual development and identity pose fraught and complex challenges in understanding and addressing young people's needs. This paper is based on qualitative research which explored parents' experiences, feelings and understandings and the responses of formal carers to parents' perspectives. The parents faced contradictory pressures to deny and not to deny sexuality. Formal carers drew on beliefs about 'good parenting' in reactions to the position of parents. Both groups confronted real dilemmas with young people who are incapable, and may never be capable, of informed consent of self-determination in sexual relationships.
Coping with the care of a severely disabled child
- Author:
- BERESFORD Bryony
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(1), January 1996, pp.30-40.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The unrelenting, and often overwhelming, stresses experienced by parents caring for a disabled child have been well charted, as have their impact on personal and family well-being. This paper reports on a study which took such research a step further by focusing on the ways parents cope with the stresses and strains of care. Reports on the way in which the negative aspects of caring for a disabled child were balanced by two positive factors: the parent-child relationship and the ways parents coped with the problems they encountered and the emotional distress they felt. Discusses parents different coping strategies and the role of services in supporting parents in the ways they chose to cope.
Planning for life 2
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 1p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter accompanying 'Planning for life: developing community services for people with complex multiple disabilities; no. 2: good practice in Manchester'.
Planning for life: developing community services for people with complex multiple disabilities; no.2; good practice in Manchester
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Planning for life 1 called for examples of good practice in services for people with multiple disabilities. This report was submitted by the Joint Service in Manchester, run by the SSD and the local health trust. The services they provide are for people with learning difficulties as well as people with complex multiple disabilities.