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Mind and body together
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.09.04, 2004, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on the findings of a research which looked at the support needs of people with physical impairments who also have mental health and their experiences of both types of services. The study was carried out by Jenny Morris in partnership with Mind for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The research found that people experienced significant barriers to getting their needs met and that there was little communication between mental health and physical disability services. Individual workers could make a difference, but they were struggling against barriers themselves.
Making a difference
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 55, 2004, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Reports on new research from the Norah Fry Centre, 'Making a difference', which highlights the key role of multi-agency working in addressing the complex healthcare needs of disabled children. In the study a total of 115 professionals, 25 families, and 18 children or young people were interviewed.
Using a phone: people with additional needs; promoting action
- Author:
- ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR DISABLED AND ELDERLY PEOPLE
- Publisher:
- Advisory Committee on Telecommunications for Disabled and Elderly People
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summarises points emerging from a qualitative project involving 40 in-depth interviews about the telephone needs of disabled and older people and sets out the action needed based on the study findings.
Using a phone: people with additional needs; qualitative interviews with people with a range of disabilities
- Author:
- ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS FOR DISABLED AND ELDERLY PEOPLE
- Publisher:
- Advisory Committee on Telecommunications for Disabled and Elderly People
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 83p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report on telephone use by disabled and older people, based on user views. Assesses telecommunications needs, overall satisfaction/dissatisfaction with current equipment and services and reasons for this, looks at the level of awareness of specialist services and equipment available, and identifies any aspirations people may have with regard to the telephone service in general and how these could be provided.
CREDO east: evaluation report
- Author:
- BYERS Richard
- Publisher:
- CREDO East
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 22p., appendices
- Place of publication:
- Rugby
Based in the east of England, CREDO east is a charitable organisation that works with teenagers who have multiple impairments and who require high levels of support to live their lives as they wish. The author was commissioned by CREDO east to evaluate their work in order to inform future planning. The research centred on four young people, all of whom had Circles of Support initiated and facilitated by CREDO east. Most of them also participated in CREDO east’s community activities and events. Data were gathered through interviews with three of the young people, family members, and Circle members, some of whom were also involved professionals. Questionnaires were also sent to professionals to obtain their views more generally on the work of CREDO east and its impact. Responses were overwhelmingly positive. CREDO east was said to have given young people and families a voice, opened up a range of opportunities for young people and their families, and developed community support networks that are powerful, creative and sustainable. Young people and family members valued CREDO east’s independence very highly. Professionals were also very positive about CREDO east and its work although they reported that there were sometimes tensions between the work of CREDO east and budgetary and procedural constraints that they themselves experienced. The author concludes that in the future CREDO east should continue to develop personalised initiatives while also expanding their capacity to engage more significantly with services, professionals and larger numbers of service users.
Yes! she knows she's here
- Author:
- SCHAEFER Nicola
- Publisher:
- Inclusion Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 154p.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Through this book readers are treated to the work that Catherine, her friends and family have accomplished in buying an ordinary home and setting up a supportive household. In the late '90's, living in one's own home is still controversial in the world of disability, particularly for an individual who doesn't speak in words and who participates with 24 hour per day support from others. Catherine has now been on this path for more than eleven years. In 1986, days before her 25th birthday, Catherine moved from her parents’ into her own home. It was an exciting, somewhat anxious time, the culmination of two years of planning and hard work on the part of many people. Everyone was eager to help Cath create a home for herself where she would have both the necessary paid, live-in support and the freely given friendship and help of others living in the two upstairs apartments. This book celebrates Cath’s 35th birthday and the 10th anniversary of her move.
The CREDO project
- Author:
- JAY Nadine
- Journal article citation:
- Focus, 32, April 2001, pp.15-21.
- Publisher:
- RNIB
Reports on the CREDO Project. A 2-year project aimed at supporting young people between the ages of 13 and 19 who are perceived as having profound and complex impairments. The National lottery Charities Board have funded Circles Network to run two projects, one in England and the other in Northern Ireland. Both projects focus particularly on the move form childhood, which is often a stressful time for young people and their parents.