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Models of disability in the labelling and attitudinal discourse in Ghana
- Author:
- AVOKE Mawutor
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(7), December 2002, pp.769-777.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article considers the labelling of people with 'mental retardation' in Ghana against the background of the major underpinning models of disability. The influences of these models on individuals and on services and provisions are discussed. It is argued that traditional and religious beliefs, in addition to present day attitudes within the community, are influences on the perception of 'mental retardation' in Ghana
Is what you need what you really want?
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Need is good and want is bad is the first lesson of care manager, says the author. But when it comes to the supply of personal care products, shouldn't disabled people be involved in choosing them? However argues that disabled people should be involved in choosing their own personal care products.
'Did you see that guy in the wheelchair down the pub?' Interactions across difference in a public place
- Authors:
- LENNEY Michael, SERCOMBE Howard
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(1), January 2002, pp.5-18.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Most research undertaken on interactions between able-bodied people and people with physical disabilities has focused on the way that people with disabilities are de-humanised during the interaction process. Little attention has been given to the possibility that able bodied people are unsure of how to go about interacting with people with disabilities. Reports a qualitative study of interaction in public places with Elton, a young person coping with cerebral palsy. Elton and the other participants used visual symbols to assess approachability, status, ability, attractiveness, and quality of character. The difficulty in each encounter is that it is shaped by people's interpretation of the other, arrived at by their own projections of meaning attached to the 'form' of the body.
Disabled for life?: attitudes towards, and experiences of, disability in Britain
- Authors:
- GREWAL Ini, et al
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 264p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The aims of the research were to provide a picture of work and daily activities of disabled people, compared with non-disabled people, and to examine general attitudes to disability. The study also sought to examine peoples experience of their disability, including discrimination and prejudice, across a range of different areas of life. The research was commissioned to inform the Governments policies to promote equality by helping disabled people overcome the barriers which may exclude them from learning, employment and other aspects of society.
The rights of disabled children and young people
- Author:
- HORNA Patricia
- Publisher:
- Save the Children Sweden
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Stockholm
This paper is about the rights of children and young people with disabilities. It sets out both to discuss the subject of disability from a Child Rights angle and to develop some basic guidelines for tackling this issue in a practical way. The paper aims to shape people’s thinking on everyday attitudes to disabled children and young people. It looks at various ideas about disability and the prejudices and stereotypes in which they are rooted. The rights of disabled children and young people are examined from a universal standpoint.
'Doing motherhood': some experiences of mothers with physical disabilities
- Authors:
- GRUE Lars, LAERUM Kirstin Tafjord
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(6), October 2002, pp.671-683.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses the experiences of physically disabled mothers. The authors interviewed 30 women in the age group 28-49 with medical diagnoses such as: multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular diseases, cerebral palsy and spinal cord injury Becoming a mother implied for many 'capturing' a gender or 'recapturing' a lost gender. The women felt they had to go to great lengths to 'present' themselves and their children as managing 'normally' in order to be accepted as 'ordinary' mothers. Eventually, they feared that their children might be taken away from them if they did not live up to other people's expectations. One possible explanation for what they experienced as other people's scepticism might be that disabled people on the whole are primarily still looked upon as being dependent on other people's help and care. In short, they are often looked upon by professionals and lay people as receivers, and not as carers.
Bringing difference into deliberation? Disabled people survivors and local governance
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.319-331.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article discusses the engagement of disabled people and mental health service users/survivors in the process of participatory democracy. The article considers how notions of "legitimate participants" are constructed within official discourse, and how those can be challenged by autonomous groups of disabled people. It also explores assumptions about appropriate forms of deliberation within participation forums and how an appeal to rational debate can exclude the emotional content of the experience of living with mental health problems from deliberation about mental health policy.
Policy politics and the silencing of 'voice'
- Author:
- SCOTT-HILL Mairian
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.397-409.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article argues that socio-political understandings of disability have not impacted on legal discourse, this article asks two questions. The author questions why a substantive solution, framed by rights discourse, to the problems of disabled people 's oppression and how perceptions of struggle, representation and participation in disability politics influence the way in which it engages with matters of policy. The article suggests that both questions ultimately concern discourse in situations where struggle and contest are highlighted. It argues that, in the search for solutions to social oppression, disabled people would gain much from developing a deeper understanding of "relational politics" that moves beyond perceptions of disability as power and dominance.
Whose voices? Representing the claims of older disabled people under New Labour
- Author:
- PRIESTLEY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.361-372.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article highlights some significant similarities and differences in the social claims made by groups representing older people and disabled people in policy debates under New Labour. Using recent policy examples, the analysis focuses on the claims being made by older and disabled people and the discourses, representations and strategies used to make them. The article suggests that there are considerable areas of common ground on which political alliances and common voice could be built, but there is also evidence of a tactical or discursive distancing between the two groups. These difficulties are interpreted with reference to the centrality of independence and paid employment within policy debates under New Labour.
The politics of self-advocacy and people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- ARMSTRONG Derrick
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.333-345.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article argues that in considering "self-advocacy" as a policy option through which the citizenship of people with learning difficulties can be asserted, it is necessary to start from an understanding of how "learning difficulties" are themselves socially constructed as a label for managing and controlling a "troublesome" minority. For this reason, significant difficulties are encountered by people with learning difficulties in their attempts to advance their civil rights through self-advocacy. This is particularly the case where self-advocacy is represented as part of a policy agenda for "empowerment" within service settings.