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Disability, disadvantage, inclusion and social inclusion
- Editor:
- NORWICH Brahm
- Publisher:
- National Association for Special Educational Needs
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- Tamworth
This report of a seminar considers how educational needs are conceptualised and the significance of how diversity is catered for in schools. Whether and how principles of good practice could be transferred from one area to another are also discussed.
When opportunity is the thing to be equalised
- Author:
- MICHAILAKIS Dimitris
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(1), February 1997, pp.17-30.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses the goal set out by the United Nations in its Standard Rules on the Equalisation of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities. The objective 'equalisation of opportunities' means both to render unlawful discrimination against persons with disabilities in every area of society, and to eliminate those very discriminatory conditions in society which render real participation impossible. The two conflicting approaches to handicap, the individual-centred and the person-environment approach, are both visible in the Standard Rules. This article suggests that the individual-centred approach is structurally related with the understanding of equal treatment as a relationship with formal characteristics, no matter what the setting in which it occurs, while the person-environment approach is related with an active social policy emerging from an understanding of equal treatment as a question of substantial right. Concludes that there is thus a conflict inherent in the Standard Rules.
National service framework for children, young people and maternity services: disabled children and young people and those with complex health needs
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education and Skills
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This standard relates to children and young people who are disabled and/or those with complex health needs, including children and young people with learning disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, sensory impairments, physical impairments and emotional/behavioural disorders. Many disabled children have no need for ongoing health interventions; others require ongoing treatment and/or nursing care and help with the everyday activities. Some disabled children will also be children in special circumstances. Children and young people who are disabled or who have complex health needs receive co-ordinated, high-quality child and family-centred services which are based on assessed needs, which promote social inclusion and, where possible, which enable them and their families to live ordinary lives.
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.