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Helen Keller: rethinking the problematic icon
- Author:
- CROW Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(6), October 2000, pp.845-859.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper charts the creation of Keller's popular image and enduring iconic status, analysing their purpose and the implications they hold for disabled people. It then examines the truth of her life, revealing how contemporary are the issues which determined it. Finally, it explores the value of retelling her biography and the relevance it holds in the building of disability culture.
Listening to the voices of individuals with disabilities
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, BRICOUT John C., BASKIND Frank R.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 79(2), March 1998, pp.188-196.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Discusses how social work literature, research, and practice on disabilities has lagged behind other topical areas dealing with oppressed groups. Presents a social work literature search and analysis as well as interviews with six individuals with disabilities about their experiences with social workers. Individuals with disabilities assert that they were treated as though they had categorically fewer aspirations, abilities, and perhaps even fundamental rights than did non-disabled people. Provides a base for follow-up research on models of consumer-focused social worker practice in the area of disability.
'What matters to me is not what you're talking about' - maintaining the social model of disability in 'public and private' negotiations
- Authors:
- BECKETT Clare, WRIGHTON Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(7), December 2000, pp.991-999.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Moving from a medical to a social model of individual disability is a political process of change with implications for understanding of and relationship to borders between individual, social life and political participation. This process has echoes in the conceptual experience of change through movement for women's liberation and gay liberation. Conceptualisation of a public/private divide has been identified in both these movements, and can also be used productively to further the use of a social model of disability. In this way, public change in status and participation can be linked to private defeat of barriers to public and political participation. This article identifies some uses of conceptualising public and private as a way of locating service provision within a social model of disability.
Interviewing non-disabled people about their disability-related attitudes: seeking methodologies
- Author:
- TREGASKIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.343-353.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Within the field of disability studies there has been a concentration upon the representation of disabled people's experiences within a social context. However, research into non-disabled people's perspectives on disability and impairment has traditionally been based upon a psychologically-driven individualist model of disability which sees disabled people uncritically as 'the problem'. In this apparent epistemological divide, little work has been done on the exploration of non-disabled people's perspectives from a social model angle. This paper outlines a current study of the formation of such perspectives, and specifically explores the methodological conditioners of such an enquiry.
Risk factor: nobody wins
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.1.00, 2000, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to Sarah Swallow, a social worker about dealing with a disabled client who misuses alcohol.
Deconstructing a disabling environment in social work education
- Authors:
- JAMES Pauline, THOMAS Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 15(1), 1996, pp.34-45.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper gives an account of a project with two objectives; first, to give greater prominence to social work with visually impaired people on a Diploma in Social Work programme with the establishment of a particular area of practice focusing upon the needs of blind and partially sighted people, and second, to positively attract students with visual disabilities to social work training. Both objectives are rooted in an analysis based upon the social model of disability which asserts that it is society which disables by responding negatively to the needs of people with disabilities.
Social work practice with deaf clients: issues in culturally competent assessment
- Authors:
- MYERS Laura L., THYER Bruce A.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 26(1), 1987, pp.61-76.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Persons with severe hearing loss live in a unique cultural context with which social workers may not be familiar. This article reviews the skills needed for the culturally competent social work assessment with deaf clients, including communication skills, interviewing methods, taking case and family histories and behavioural observation.
A cry for help
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.2.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the realities of handling extreme domestic violence in a multidisciplinary team.