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From a different viewpoint: the lives and experiences of visually impaired people
- Authors:
- FRENCH Sally, SWAIN John
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 80p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Workbook designed to help young people explore the lives and experiences of visually impaired people. Uses case studies and interviews and explores issues around disability in general.
Report on part one of the Northern Ireland Children and Young People with Disabilities research project
- Authors:
- MONTEITH Maria, MCCRYSTAL Patrick, IWANIEC Dorota
- Publisher:
- Queen's University Belfast. Centre for Child Care Research
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 121p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
First report in a research study looking at the needs of and services to disabled children and young people in Northern Ireland. Includes a literature review and a section on disabled children living away from home.
Children and young people with disabilities in Northern Ireland: part 1; an overview of needs and services; a summary
- Authors:
- MONTEITH Maria, MCCRYSTAL Patrick, IWANIEC Dorota
- Publisher:
- Queen's University Belfast. Centre for Child Care Research
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Summary of a research report looking at the needs of and provision of services to disabled children and young people in Northern Ireland.
CROA supports people like us
- Author:
- WILLOW Carolyne
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 142, December 1997, p.18.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Children's Rights Officers and Advocates (CROA) give their views on Sir William Utting's report 'People like us'. This article focuses in particular on the recommendation that children and young people who are looked after should have access to children's rights officers.
Listening to disabled youth
- Author:
- ROBINSON Jacky
- Journal article citation:
- Childright, 140, October 1997, pp.5-6.
- Publisher:
- Children's Legal Centre
Looks at society's failure to listen to disabled children and young people and the negative impact this can have. Discusses advocacy as a way of ensuring children are heard.
Assessments of activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living: their use by community-based health service occupational therapists working in physical disability
- Author:
- WOLF Helen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60(8), August 1997, pp.359-364.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Discusses the results of a study to evaluate the appropriateness of activities of daily living (ADL) scales as outcome measures of a community-based multidisciplinary service to physically disabled young people. A literature search was undertaken which raised several questions and concerns. To find out how other teams addressed these issues, telephone interviews were conducted with occupational therapists working in similar NHS teams. They were asked about the nature of their services, their use of ADL and ADL scales and whether these were administered as outcome measures.
Care or empowerment? a disability rights perspective
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 31(1), March 1997, pp.54-60.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article challenges the notion of "care", arguing that people who need support in their daily lives have been constructed as "dependent people". Instead, the author argues, if we want to empower people we must learn from the Independent Living Movement, from the people who struggled against segregation and insisted that access to personal assistance over which they have control is a civil rights issues. Argues that the new direct payments legislation is an important stage in the achievements of a civil rights movement in any work which they develop on issues which are not of mere academic interest but which concern people's rights to choice and control in their lives.
Aspects of the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act and students with learning disabilities: a guide for staff working in health and social services and the independent sector
- Author:
- HOOD Pat
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 15p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Guide designed to help staff in health and social services and the independent sector understand aspects of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 which concern students with learning difficulties.
Gender differences in abused children with and without disabilities
- Authors:
- SOBSEY Dick, RANDALL Wade, PARRILA Rauno K.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 21(8), August 1997, pp.707-720.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article looks at the proportions of boys and girls in various categories of substantiated child abuse and whether the gender proportions differ for children with and without disabilities. Finds that more boys were physically abused and neglected, but more girls were sexually abused. Boys with disabilities, however, were over-represented in all categories of abuse. Moreover, gender proportions among abused children with disabilities differed significantly from those found among other abuse children. Several possible explanations for the observed gender and disability status interaction are discussed.
Place of greater safety
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.2.97, 1997, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the dilemma posed by a teenager with Asperger syndrome who needs a specialist residential placement but whose behaviour means he could be dangerous to himself or other children if he is placed in the wrong setting.