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Addressing issues of sexuality with adolescents with disabilities
- Authors:
- GORDON Phyllis A., TSCHOPP Molly K., FELDMAN David
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(5), October 2004, pp.513-527.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Adolescents with disabilities frequently experience considerable scrutiny from their non-disabled peers concerning their perceived differences. Consequently they may possess negative self-views and often have difficulties in friendship and intimate relationship development. Limited research has examined sexual development of adolescents with disabilities. Discusses issues related to the sociological and psychological implications of disability and the manner in which they impact sexual development of adolescents
Fostering children with disabilities
- Author:
- NATIONAL FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- National Foster care Association
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 62p.,lists of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Written for foster carers. Includes information on all types of disability, and goes on to look at: people and agencies available for help and support; helping a child move to a foster home; communication; play; special education; life expectancy; sex education; and young people moving into adulthood.
The adolescent with developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD)
- Author:
- KIRBY Amanda
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 143p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Adolescence is hard for most of us, but for an individual with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD) it can be twice as hard. Amanda Kirby, Medical Director of the Dyscovery Centre and the mother of a DCD child herself, addresses the main difficulties encountered by adolescents with DCD, including building relationships and coping with secondary school. With a common sense approach she provides a series of practical ideas on how individuals can tackle these difficulties making The Adolescent with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder an essential resource for adolescents with DCD, as well as parents, teachers and health professionals.
Peer and adult relationships of adolescents with disabilities
- Author:
- SKAR R. N. Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adolescence, 26(6), December 2003, pp.635-649.
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
The purpose of this study was to enhance knowledge of what it is like to grow up with a disability, specifically, with focus on how adolescents with restricted mobility perceive social roles and relationships to peers and adults. The group investigated consisted of 12 adolescents with restricted mobility from northern Sweden, aged from 15 to 19 years. The adolescents were individually interviewed. The analysis resulted in a core category (Who am I), which describes how the adolescents perceive themselves. The core category was related to three subcategories: Relationships to friends--describes the adolescents' experiences of peer relationships, Relationships to adults--describes adolescents' relationships to adults, Thoughts about relationships in the future--comprises wishes for future relationships. The results indicated that the 12 disabled adolescents saw themselves as regular members of the adolescent peer group but that the members of the adolescent group saw them as being different. The relationships to friends of the same age were either markedly defective or did not exist at all, while relationships to adults were often characterized as ambivalent or asymmetric, i.e. the adults were simultaneously helpful and supportive while over protective and dominant. The study revealed that despite the many hindrances, the adolescents had a comparatively positive view of their future.
Adolescence, risk and resilience: against the odds
- Editors:
- COLEMAN John, HAGELL Ann, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 205p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book considers a range of disadvantages that may impact on adolescents and suggests ways to overcome them. It is about demonstrating a positive approach to young people and their circumstances and shows how the concepts of risk and resilience are related. Contributors examine: the nature of risk and resilience in adolescence; the role of the family; growing up in substitute care; sex and risk; mental health and mental disorders; young disabled people; anti-social behaviour; social exclusion, risk and young adulthood.
Foster youth emancipating from care: caseworkers' reports on needs and services
- Authors:
- LEATHERS Sonya J., TESTA Mark F.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 85(3), May 2006, pp.463-498.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
This article presents findings from a survey mailed to caseworkers, who answered questions about special needs, individual living skills, educational attainment, and services for 416 randomly selected young people in foster care in Illinois. A third of the adolescents had a mental health disorder, developmental disability, or other special need that their case workers believed would interfere with their ability to life independently. Additionally, urban youth were underserved relative to other youth. Youth with more behavioural problems and educational and job skill deficits were less likely that other youth to continue to receive child welfare services past age 18, suggesting that services must be provided throughout adolescence to meet the needs of the most vulnerable clients.
Caged in chaos: a dyspraxic guide to breaking free
- Author:
- BIGGS Victoria
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 200p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Written by a teenage dyspraxic, this book is a practical guide for dyspraxics and those around them struggling and determined to get to grips with the social, physical and psychological chaos caused by developmental co-ordination disorders (DCDs). In her own conversational style, the author discusses both the primary effects of her ‘learning difference' – disorganization, clumsiness and poor short-term memory – and the secondary difficulties she and other dyspraxics encounter, including bullying, low self-esteem and loneliness. She offers down-to-earth advice on a wide range of issues, from body language, puberty, health and hygiene to family life and social skills. Personal stories and ‘this-is-what-it's-like-for-me' accounts from other dyspraxic adolescents are also included.
From adolescence to young adulthood: the partnership challenge for learning disability services in England
- Author:
- HUDSON Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(3), May 2003, pp.259-276.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The transition from adolescence to young adulthood is acknowledged to be difficult for all young people, but the problems facing those with a learning disability will tend to be greater. This article identifies these additional difficulties, and considers the extent to which new policy requirements and expectations in England can address them. At the heart of this new approach is the need for partnership working between a complex range of agencies and professionals. What is at stake is not only a better system of support for some vulnerable young people, but also--in microcosm--the viability of partnership working as a policy tool for addressing complex issues.
Young disabled people moving into adulthood
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Although it is a legal requirement that all young people over the age of fourteen with a statement of special educational needs have a transition plan, a third of young people surveyed in one study did not have a plan. Education and social services are often not working well together in transition planing. There is also poor coordination between children and adult social services. Young people who are disabled and in placements out of their local area are particularly likely to experience inadequate transition planning.