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It'll be all rights
- Author:
- BRODY Simeon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.06.06, 2006, p.46.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author asks how far councils have gone in meeting the forthcoming duty to promote equality of opportunity for disabled people. The article focuses on the progress made in producing and disability equality scheme, and the extent of involving disabled people in drafting these schemes.
Power to the pupils
- Author:
- MacCONVILLE Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- Children Now, 8.03.06, 2006, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Haymarket
Ealing council's special educational needs school service decided to hold a conference, entitled Powerful Voices, on disability and education with pupils as delegates. This article highlights the key lessons learned from organising the conference.
Evaluating the impact of mobility-related assistive technology on the lives of disabled people: a review of outcome measures
- Authors:
- HARRIS Anne, PINNINGTON Lorraine L., WARD Christopher D.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68(12), December 2005, pp.553-558.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This research review aimed to assess the adequacy available outcome measures to evaluate the impact of mobility assistive technology on participation. The aim was to assess how these tools measured activity and participation in relation to mobility. Each measure considered some useful aspect of participation, but none took sufficient account of the needs of those with mobility impairments or could evaluate adequately the impact of different technologies. To support client-centred and evidence-based practice, an outcome measure that evaluates the impact of mobility assistive technology on activity and participation is required.
Practising group work: a processual account
- Authors:
- SUKHRAMANI Neelam, BAIG Mohammad Imran
- Journal article citation:
- Indian Journal of Social Work, 64(1), January 2003, pp.1-32.
- Publisher:
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Group work has been vastly practised, but minimally documented method in the Indian context. This article is an attempt to narrate, as well as to use a theoretical framework to analyse the experiences of working with a group in an integrated school of children with and without physical disabilities. Efforts have been made to detail out each phase by delving into the nature of activities undertaken, the involvement that it elicited from the members, the group dynamics and the role played by the group worker. The article aims to provide a practitioner or a would-be practitioner an account of group work process.
Emancipatory research methodology and disability: a critique
- Authors:
- DANIELLI Ardha, WOODHAMS CAROL
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 8(4), October 2005, pp.281-296.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper questions the prescription of emancipatory participatory research for studying disability espoused by some disability researchers and activists. It argues that the advocacy of participatory and emancipatory research can be criticised on several grounds including problems of internal inconsistency and contradiction, an overly selective use of the works of feminist researchers and that research using such an approach could constitute an exercise of power that potentially marginalises some voices and potentially oppresses some disabled people and researchers. Ultimately, it is suggested, the emancipatory paradigm may serve to undermine the generation of knowledge that can be used by disabled people for self-emancipation. The paper concludes that rather than prescribe emancipatory research as the only legitimate methodology for disability research, disability writers should, as feminists have in researching gender, adopt a more pluralist and eclectic approach to theorising and researching disability.
Are you listening?: what disabled children and young people in Wales think about the services they use
- Author:
- TURNER Claire
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government. Children First
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 62p., ill.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This consultation was commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government. It elicited the views of disabled children and young people across Wales about the services they use and their recommendations for change. The findings will be used to inform the Children’s First bjectives, the National Service Framework for Children and wider policy developments. Disabled children and young people’s involvement in making decisions about their own care and treatment is not consistent across services. Whilst disabled children and young people may make small day to day decisions, adults still appear to make the more important decisions on their behalf. There are few examples of disabled children and young people’s involvement in shaping services.
Personal assistance: direct payments or alternative public service: does it matter for the promotion of user control?
- Author:
- ASKHEIM Ole Petter
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(3), May 2005, pp.247-260.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Personal assistance organised as direct payments is seen as an important means for securing user control and freeing disabled people from their reliance on welfare professionals and unpaid carers. The hypothesis put forward in the article is that just looking at whether personal assistance is organised as direct payments or as an alternative service represents an overly restricted approach to judge how the user’s preferences are taken care of. By comparing models of personal assistance in the US, the UK, Sweden and Norway it will show that several other factors influence user control. In the final part of the article the question is raised as to whether paternalism is always negative for welfare service users. Since the users constitute a broad group it might be questioned if the assumption of the service users as rational, well informed and competent to make the best choices is always valid.
Crossing the boundaries: how training can improve joint working
- Author:
- ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In the current climate where working in partnership is both encouraged and expected, training plays an important part in this process.The aim of this good practice guide is to show how training can improve joint working, to show the benefits there will be for both service providers and people receiving services, and to give examples of good practice. The guide looks at what ‘works well’ particularly from the viewpoint of disabled people. It also covers what causes problems and what could be done to address these. Its intention is to encourage service providers and trainers to think about how training can improve joint working and to take action to put thought into effect.
Finding out things
- Author:
- THOMPSON John
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Examines the issues in disability research with users and their carers. Research methods, user involvement and outcomes are considered.
Starting with choice: inclusive strategies for consulting young children
- Authors:
- DICKINS Mary, EMERSON Sue, GORDON-SMITH Pat
- Publisher:
- Save the Children
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
When children are encouraged to choose, they develop confidence and the ability to make decisions for themselves. It is good for them, and for the places they learn and play. Young children with disabilities have a right to make choices too. Involving all children in decision-making can be challenging but, if the right questions are asked in the right ways, young disabled children can and will express their views. The book provides practical guidance on consulting young children, and a range of techniques that help young children to express their views and make choices. It also looks at when consultation can be effective, at how it fits in to the foundation stage guidance, and at how to train and support early years workers to gain the skills they need.