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The disability audit: RADAR's survey of disability organisations' views on Labour's first 18 months in Government
- Author:
- ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
- Publisher:
- Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Conductive education and the politics of disablement
- Author:
- READ Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 13(2), April 1998, pp.279-293.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Discusses how conductive education has been characterised by some disabled academics as an intervention that is oppressive to disabled people. This article describes the practice of Conductive Education and its development in the United Kingdom and explores why it came to be perceived by some from within the disabled people's movement as contrary to their interests.
Communicating with children who have disabilities: a right for the child - a challenge for the adult
- Author:
- WELCH B.M
- Publisher:
- B.M. Welch
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- Preston
Outlines some of the general principles involved in communicating with children with disabilities, using a child centred approach throughout.
Researching disability issues
- Authors:
- MOORE Michael, BEAZLEY Sarah, MAELZER June
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 106p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Designed to present a clear guide to carrying out research on disability issues. Aims to demonstrate the value of critical attention to social, rather than medical starting points for researching disability, through reviewing a variety of studies which look at different aspects of disabled people's lives. Different quantitative and qualitative methodological frameworks are considered, ranging from analysis of observation data to conversation-based data. Presents examples of the dilemmas which face researchers and connects these ideas to individual personal action. Places the pivotal role of disabled people in research as central throughout.
Dereliction of duty
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.4.98, 1998, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how disabled children in care are still missing out on the support they are entitled to, and many are not consulted about the views and wishes.
Listening to the voices of individuals with disabilities
- Authors:
- GILSON Stephen French, BRICOUT John C., BASKIND Frank R.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 79(2), March 1998, pp.188-196.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Discusses how social work literature, research, and practice on disabilities has lagged behind other topical areas dealing with oppressed groups. Presents a social work literature search and analysis as well as interviews with six individuals with disabilities about their experiences with social workers. Individuals with disabilities assert that they were treated as though they had categorically fewer aspirations, abilities, and perhaps even fundamental rights than did non-disabled people. Provides a base for follow-up research on models of consumer-focused social worker practice in the area of disability.
Distress and disability
- Author:
- SAYCE Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 89, January 1998, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Discusses whether users of mental health services are 'disabled'.
Still missing: volume 1; the experience of disabled children and young people living away from home
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Publisher:
- Who Cares Trust
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 57p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the experiences of thirty disabled people who spent most of their childhood away from their families. A companion volume examines policy and practice implications of the experiences recorded here and looks in detail at how three local authorities are attempting to meet the needs of disabled children.
Access to assessment: the perspectives of practitioners, disabled people and carers
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Recent community care legislation means that disabled people must undergo an eligibility test in order to access an assessment of their needs. A study exploring access to the assessment procedures used by two local authority social services departments. The study - based on observations of social workers' assessment practice and interviews with disabled people and carers.
Reaping the benefit?
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.3.98, 1998, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The government's onslaught on benefit fraud has dealt a double blow to mentally ill people on disability benefits. Reports on how both their health and their incomes are at risk.