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Working with disabled people in consultation and research
- Authors:
- BARNES Di, KENDALL Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 19(1), 2001, pp.17-24.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
When a consultation exercise is designed with disabled people, the result will be influenced by all the participants' experience of consultation and their knowledge and understanding of research. The exercise will also be a product of particular place and time. These influences are explored in a case study carried out by the authors in partnerships with disabled people; they adopted a pluralistic and flexible approach to consultation, which gave information as well as sought it, and included a commitment to developing community skills with an eye on succession.
The meaning of disability
- Author:
- VARO-WATSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, April 2001, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The author, a disabled service user, discusses definitions given to disability, and explains why care managers need to provide a positive baseline for disabled service users.
That kind of life: social exclusion and young disabled people with high levels of support needs
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny,
- Publisher:
- SCOPE
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 49p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report is concerned with the experiences of a group of children and young people who are at a high risk of social exclusion. It is based on the experiences of forty four young people aged between fifteen and twenty, all of whom have high levels of support needs.
Quality in services for disabled children and their families: what can theory, policy and research on children's and parents' views tell us?
- Authors:
- MITCHELL Wendy, SLOPER Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 15(4), September 2001, pp.237-252.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article seeks to define 'quality' in services for disabled children and their families. Theoretical models are initially reviewed and then considered in relation to key policy guidelines, empirical data drawing upon parents' and children's experiences of 'quality' in services are presented. Demonstrates the many different levels within the concept of 'quality' and highlights the importance of recognising and respecting that children and parents frequently value different aspects of 'quality'.
Research into practice
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.12.01, 2001, p.45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at new research commissioned by the Spelthorne Forum for Children with Disabilities, which offers pointers as to how respite care for disabled children might be better provided in future.
Face to face: an inquiry into the unmet information needs of disabled people
- Author:
- KNIGHT P. Cynthia
- Editor:
- KINRADE Derek.
- Publisher:
- National Information Forum
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report was based on a survey of disabled people in three London boroughs, Hackney, Southwark and Tower Hamlets. The survey aim was to find out disabled people's experiences of information provision by their local authority. In particular the survey looked at the provision of information as to what services a disabled person could receive from their local authority and how it was accessed, if at all. The three boroughs taking part in the survey selected, at random, disabled people from their registers and invited them to participate - 69 people responded in total. The sample covered a variety of disabilities, age ranges and ethnic backgrounds, of a sufficient spread to take account of the different communities in each borough. The main finding of the survey was that 61% of the participants felt that they did not receive information that met their needs and 86% of them had experienced difficulties in getting the necessary information. Most of them also said they that wouldn't know how to go about getting the information and 83% of them were worried by this situation. The main requirement identified by the participants was for clear, accurate and accessible information they could easily understand.
Ask the users
- Authors:
- CURRY Paul, CUPPLES Joan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(1), 2001, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Reports on an action research project involving day service users in Luton which showed the way for future vocational development.
Where are the children's experiences? Analysing social and cultural exclusion in 'special' and 'mainstream' schools
- Authors:
- DAVIS J.M., WATSON N.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(5), August 2001, pp.671-687.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article employs ethnographic data to illustrate that disabled children encounter discriminatory notions of 'normality' and 'difference' in both 'special' and 'mainstream' schools, and that these experiences relate to both the structural forces in schools, and the everyday individual and cultural practices of adults and children. In contrast to much of the literature in the field, this article examines the everyday life experiences of adults and disabled children from their own perspective. Highlights disabled children's own criticisms of 'special' and 'mainstream' schools to illustrate the fluid nature of disabled children's lives within educational settings. Argues that schools will be prevented from becoming fully inclusive until adults who control schools take account of children's views of specific educational processes and until educational policy makers adopt a more nuanced multi-level approach to inclusion. Children should be enabled to challenge the structural, cultural and individual conditions which create disability.
Autonomy in everyday life, for whom?
- Author:
- BARRON Karin
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(3), May 2001, pp.431-447.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A disability reform came into force in Sweden in 1994 which emphasises the importance for disabled people of increased autonomy and self determination in everyday life. Interviews with disabled women and men have shown that while there are those who, because of the legislation, have increased control in their everyday living, there are also those who in no way have benefited from this reform. Some of the disabled participants had not even heard of the legislation before the time of the interview. They are in a situation where they require support, which they do not have, in order to apply for services of their choice and, if necessary, appeal against negative decisions with regard to the applied for services. Concludes with a discussion about the Janus-faced nature of individual rights.
Learning to listen: consulting children and young people with disabilities
- Author:
- LEWIS Maddy
- Publisher:
- Save the Children UK
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Disabled young people have the same rights as everybody else, but their needs often have to be met differently. For instance, all young people have the right to have a say in decisions that affect them. It can be hard enough for a non-disabled teenager to get adults to understand them, but for a young person who isn't able to speak or write things down, it can be impossible unless others find alternative ways of communicating with them - for example, through body language or special equipment. Many disabled young people's needs aren't properly met because the mainstream idea that social exclusion means not having a job, training or qualifications doesn't necessarily apply to them. The isolation felt by many disabled young people will only disappear when adults - from parents and teachers to doctors and government policy-makers - learn how to consult and listen to them.