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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.
Multiculturalism and disability: a critical perspective
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, DePOY Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.207-218.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reviews current multicultural thinking, in relation to disability and offers a critical view of the advantages and disadvantages of positioning disability within the emergent multicultural discourse. Implications for future thinking and action to promote equal opportunity and self-determination for persons with disabilities as a cultural group with a political agenda are then advanced.
Trouble in Paradise- a disabled person's right to the satisfaction of a self-defined need: some conceptual and practical problems
- Author:
- HANDLEY Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.313-325.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper questions the usefulness of the rights-based approach to ameliorating social situation of disabled people in Britain and advances two criticisms. First, that rights and self-defined needs have been under-theorised by disability theorists to the extent that they have insufficiently appreciated he problems that these approaches pose. The paper suggests that rights to appropriate resources to satisfy self-defined needs will generate vast numbers of competing rights claims and that the resulting tendency of rights to conflict has been under-appreciated. Secondly, that there has been little consideration of how these conflicts might be reconciled. The first two sections of the paper look at the concepts of ascribed and self-defined needs, respectively, whilst the final one looks at some of the problems of the rights approach and some of the difficulties of making self-defined need the basis of rights claims.
Disability studies as ethnographic research and text: research strategies and roles for promoting social change
- Author:
- DAVIS John M.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(2), March 2000, pp.191-206.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper problatises the notion of research production within disability studies by comparing literature on emancipatory research with concepts of reflexivity, authority and empowerment employed within ethnographic research. It critically examines a number of proposals within disability studies on how researchers can stimulate or contribute to processes which improve their respondents life conditions. A variety of strategies for change are discussed within the context of how ethnographers do fieldwork, and write up and disseminate their findings.
Social care practice handbook
- Authors:
- LEONARD CHESHIRE, SOCIAL CARE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire,|Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- ca. 254p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource covers all aspects of dealing with clients in health care, social care, home car, day care and short-term residential and day-care settings, including fundamental basics, such as respecting clients rights and effective communication. Includes a code of ethics and policy on equal opportunities.
'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.
Children and young people with a hidden disability: an examination of the social work role
- Author:
- CAVET Judith
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 30(5), October 2000, pp.619-634.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
There has been little research attention paid to the nature and extent of social work intervention with children and young people with invisible impairments. The study described here found that children and young people with a hidden and stigmatizing impairment received a social work service which was at a minimal level. Recommendations are made about social services input, but it is recognized that the level of social services intervention available to these families may, in part, be a reflection of a low priority assigned to disabled children generally. It is argued that, although such an assignment is a common picture in recent research about social services provision to disabled children, a change in priorities is needed which recognizes the importance of coherent support to disabled children as a means of improving their environment and thereby reducing families' stress levels and the likelihood of abuse or rejection.
Respite care for disabled children: micro and macro reflections
- Author:
- COCKS Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(3), May 2000, pp.507-519.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Examines the proposal that by exploring at a micro level the control exercised over children it is possible to identify the wider societal mechanisms for maintaining power at a macro level. The focus of the paper is on the provision of respite care for disabled children in settings away from home. Drawing on principles within childhood sociology and referencing recent research within disability studies consideration is given to issues of 'power and control' in relation to disabled children and how that reflects the structure of adult society. Concludes with discussion of the concept of citizenship as a model for change.
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.
Disabled students and transition planning: a role for social work
- Author:
- ADAMS Amanda
- Publisher:
- Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 59p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Surbiton
This publication is concerned with the transition to independent living for young disabled people and the potential role for social work in this process. Using empirical data from interviews conducted with final-year students in a residential further education college, it examines their perceptions of independent living and the "disabling barriers" faced in planning for this transition. The findings are then located within current theoretical, legislative and organisational frameworks in order to validate student experiences within the wider arena of young disabled people and independent living. A role for social work in tackling such inequalities within a non-traditional setting is also considered. The publication concludes by making some general observations in relation to policy and practice issues for social workers involved in transition planning with young disabled people and their families.