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Getting ready for work: a work experience scheme for young people with multiple disabilities and significant support needs
- Author:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Publisher:
- SKILL (National Bureau for Students with Disabilities)
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 16p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Students in mainstream education are all expected to undertake some form of work experience at around the age of 14 or 15. This report describes a project in Liverpool which offers work experience to young, severely disabled people who have traditionally been denied this opportunity.
'Armed now with hope...': the construction of the subjectivity of students with integration
- Author:
- MARKS Genee
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(1), 1994, pp.71-84.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Students who are integrated into the regular school system have traditionally been constructed in a variety of ways that reflects the philosophies and the policies of the relevant educational systems. Within these systems though, students have also constructed views of their own subjectivity, yet their perspectives and perceptions have seldom been studied. This paper explores the integration policy in Victoria, Australia, over the last decade to gain insight into the way students are constructed, and construct themselves, drawing on the poetry and diaries of a teenager who was been integrated into the regular school system.
En/countering disablement in school life in Australia: children talk about peer relations and living with illness and disability
- Author:
- MCMAUGH Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 26(7), 2011, pp.853-866.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper reports the experiential accounts of young people with physical disability or chronic illness as they made the transition to junior high school, with a particular focus on their social experiences with peers and friends. The participants were 24 young people, with a mean age of 12.4 years, with visible and physically limiting disabilities and health conditions including cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and cystic fibrosis. Their personal accounts were gathered in 3 interviews during the course of a year from late Year 6 to late Year 7. A total of 72 recorded conversations, amounting to more than 100 hours of communication, documented the transitional experiences of the participants. Children’s reports were examined in a reflexive, disability studies framework, in which commonalities and difference in experience were examined. The findings highlight a common experience of disability-related harassment and differential experiences of friendship, peer rejection and school culture. While children encounter and actively counter disablement in a variety of ways, it is clear that they are also cognisant of the stigma, prejudices and disabling expectations that are at the core of these experiences.
Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: general guidelines
- Author:
- QUALIFICATIONS AND CURRICULUM AUTHORITY
- Publisher:
- Qualifications and Curriculum Authority/Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 36p.
- Place of publication:
- London
These guidelines support the planning, development and implementation of the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties. They draw on effective practice across a range of schools and can be used in mainstream and special primary schools, specialised schools and independent schools. They also provide support to the range of services that work with these schools.
The best days of their lives?
- Authors:
- ABBOTT David, MORRIS Jenny, WARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 15(3), 2002, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Many disabled children sent away to residential school have mixed feelings about their experiences. Reports on the findings of a recent study by the Norah Fry Research Centre.
People don't understand: children, young people and their families coping with a hidden disability
- Author:
- CAVET Judith
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 110p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes the experiences of families whose children are affected by faecal incontinence as a result of a physical impairment. Demonstrates the powerful social pressures associated with this disability by presenting accounts of affected children, young people and their parents, often in their own words. Discusses how a more supportive environment can be achieved.
Together we can plan my future: the needs of school leavers with a visual impairment and additional disabilities
- Author:
- SeeABILITY
- Publisher:
- SeeABILITY
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 79p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leatherhead
Report focusing on the needs of young people with a visual impairment who also have additional disabilities and who are about to leave school in the West Country. Includes sections on: a profile of the West of England; the young people's disabilities; their future needs; the needs of parents; and summary of key findings.
The views and experiences of disabled children and their siblings: a positive outlook
- Authors:
- CONNORS Clare, STALKER Kirsten
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 187p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book considers the following topics: disabled children's understanding of disability; thew ways in which children negotiate the experience of disability in their daily lives; children's perceptions of their relationships with professionals and their knowledge and views of service provisions; siblings' perception of the effects on them of having a disabled brother or sister
Easing the way with special needs
- Authors:
- RANDALL Peter, GIBB Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 6(3), 1992, pp.206-210.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper describes the failure of social workers and teachers to communicate effectively in meeting the needs of disabled young people in the transition from school to community, and the use of a complete special needs assessment and planning package, the GIRA Disability Assessment as a means whereby an effective transition between school and social services provision can be effected.
The adoption experience: families who give children a second chance
- Author:
- MORRIS Ann
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 223p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Uses real life stories to take the reader through every stage of the adoption process. Aims to inform professionals, adoptive parents, potential adopters and all those whose lives are affected by adoption. Contains chapters on: first meetings and first months; adopting babies and toddlers; adopting schoolchildren; taking on young people; adopting a disabled child or a child with learning difficulties; adopting an emotionally, physically or sexually abused child; single, unmarried, and gay adoptive parents and adoption over birth by choice; adoption and race; openness; attachment; adoption breakdown; tracing; a birth mother's story; and an adoptee's story.