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I don't know what you're trying to establish: the housing and urban problems of visually impaired children
- Authors:
- ALLEN Chris, MILNER Joanne
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 3(1), January 2004, pp.1-10.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Uses the social model of disability to examine visually impaired children's experiences of their housing and neighbourhoods. In the study 45 children between the ages of 5 and 16 were interviewed. From the sample, 34 lived in owner occupied houses and located in 'good areas' in the city or in the suburban fringe. Results found that they did not experience any significant problems with the design of them. The source of their problems was within these environments, and was caused by factors such as the intensity of movement, for example, from flows of traffic. Discusses the social policy implications of these findings.