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Using children's books as an approach to enhancing our understanding of disability
- Author:
- PARDECK John T.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(1/2), 2005, pp.77-85.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Children's books can be used as a tool for teaching about the unique needs of children with disabilities. This article offers strategies for using books as a medium for increasing our understanding about disability. In the article a disability is viewed as an aspect of cultural diversity. A list of children's books focusing on the topic of disability is offered. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Medicaid managed care, substance abuse treatment, and people with disabilities: review of the literature
- Authors:
- BACHMAN Sara S., DRAINONI Mari-Lynn, TOBIAS Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 29(3), August 2004, pp.189-196.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Presents a review of the literature relating to substance abuse, disability, and Medicaid managed care which suggests that substance abuse is a serious issue for individuals with disabilities. Identifies topics for a research agenda on the needs of individuals with disabilities who also experience co-occurring substance abuse disorders. Implications for social work policy and practice are discussed.
Life participation approaches to aphasia: international perspectives on communication rehabilitation
- Authors:
- BOLES Larry, LEWIS Mimi
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2(2/3), 2003, pp.47-64.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Discusses a recent development in aphasia treatment, termed the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA). LPAA is a model of aphasia rehabilitation that is being practiced internationally in Canada, Australia, England, and the United States. This approach is consumer-driven, and emphasizes reengagement in life. LPAA views family members and the larger community as active contributors to the rehabilitation process. Rather than focusing on the hypothetical situations depicted in pictures, real-life social interactions comprise the therapy context with LPAA.
Case management in action: an examination of two cases in the area of alcohol related brain damage
- Authors:
- CLEAK Helen, SERR Klaus
- Journal article citation:
- Australian Social Work, 51(1), March 1998, pp.33-38.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article examines two cases of a small non-government agency in Australia where case management services are delivered to people with alcohol acquired brain damage. Presents an analysis which supports the view that continuity of care and intensive relationship building with clients is vital for successful client outcomes and has application to a variety of programmes which service chronically disabled clients.
Treating people with physical disabilities
- Authors:
- STRAW Dennis, SCHASCHL Sharon
- Journal article citation:
- Addiction Counselling World, 8(46), May 1997, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Addiction Recovery Foundation
For many people with physical disabilities, chemical dependency imposes greater limitations than their physical impairment. Discusses the importance of treating addiction in people with disabilities.
Reconstructing the self: photography, education and disability
- Author:
- NEWBURY Darren
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 11(3), September 1996, pp.349-360.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Despite the centrality of photography to an understanding of the self and other in contemporary culture, its educational significance has been largely ignored. This paper examines the potential of photographic work as a means of exploring and reconstructing understandings of disability in an educational context of Foundation arts course. It is argued that the practical work produced by students on the project enabled them to understand how their identities are constructed within photographic discourses such as charity advertising and family photography, and to begin to reconstruct new understandings of the self. It is also argued that this goes beyond progressivist pedagogies or photography as a kind of art therapy.
Therapy at the Bobath Centre
- Author:
- SHENTON Baby
- Journal article citation:
- Mencap News, 45, June 1994, pp.14-15.
Describes how the work of the Bobath Centre helps children with disabilities.
Remedies for difficulties
- Author:
- CRAFT Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.6.92, 1992, pp.iii-iv.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Outlines some strategies to protect children with a physical or learning disability from abuse.
Help for the disabled and their families: a domiciliary physiotherapy research project
- Authors:
- GLOSSOP E. Sonia, SMITH Dennis S
- Publisher:
- Brent and Harrow Health Authority
- Publication year:
- 1979
- Pagination:
- 27p.+ appendices, tables, illus.
- Place of publication:
- London
What evidence, whose evidence?: physical therapy in New York State's clinical practice guideline and in the lives of mothers of disabled children
- Author:
- LANDSMAN Gail H.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 62(11), June 2006, pp.2670-2680.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
To provide recommendations based on the best scientific evidence available about “best practices,” the New York State Department of Health Early Intervention Program sponsored the development of an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for assessment and intervention for young children with motor disabilities. The author served on the multidisciplinary consensus panel convened to develop the guideline, holding a position as a parent of a child with motor disabilities, and in addition utilizing data from her qualitative anthropological research on mothers of young children newly diagnosed with disabilities. This article describes the state panel's process for developing the guideline, focusing on recommendations about physical therapy interventions for cerebral palsy. Although evidence-based practice privileges randomized clinical trials, few studies of physical therapy techniques for young children with motor disabilities meet such criteria for evidence. The panel's recommendations, in the absence of such scientific evidence, are analyzed in comparison with competing theories of motor development in physical therapy research and practice, and with interpretations of physical therapy held by mothers of young children with disabilities who were interviewed in the study. The article explores questions of what constitutes evidence in three arenas: (1) clinical practice guidelines, (2) physical therapy research, and (3) the lives of families of young children with motor disabilities. It has broader implications for understanding how information, variously derived, is transformed into evidence. While to some extent authority and power affect the range of knowledge that can be transformed into evidence, the more significant constraints may be the rules of evidence we value and the particular paradigm of our science.