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This is an excellent collection of stories and articles that are helping signify the current paradigm shift in the way we think about services for people with disabilities and how we define 'community'.
Read MoreThis report is the proceedings of a special one day conference organised by SWRC and held in Sydney on September 23 1988. The general theme seems to have been 'community' specifically related to the process of deinstitutionalisation.
Read MoreThe authors of this monograph interviewed 51 families on three occasions over a 12 month period to examine their use of health and welfare services for their young children with disabilities.
Read MoreThis article is a brief synopsis of Janice Daar Watson's article on children and sexual abuse (found on our book shelves in, The Disabled Child and the Family ). Janice calls for positive sex education and an abuse prevention program for children who have intellectual disabilities.
Read MoreThis paper, presented at the 1990 ASSID Conference, considers issues in relation to sexual abuse of adults and children with intellectual disabilities. It considers risk factors, prevention, protection, and intervention.
Read MoreThe article relates the story of Mr. Jordan, a man who was institutionalised and engaged in a range of long term extreme and self injurious behaviours.
Read MoreThis paper lists the common causes of vulnerability of groups of people who are at risk of being marginalised in society. These include misrepresentation of their needs and rejection.
Read MoreThis paper suggests some techniques for parents of children with disabilities to use in dealing effectively with agencies, institutions and professionals, and in ways which are also self empowering. It emphasises that knowledge and skill are very powerful - "they are meant to be used as tools, not weapons".
Read MoreThis paper clearly sets out what is meant by the term "normalisation" (social role valorisation).
Read MoreThis article by Wolfensberger - Director of the Training Institute for Human Service Planning and Change Agentry at Syracuse University - describes his experience of visiting a particular hostel in Sweden where, as the residents are socialised into the culture and into adulthood, they are also socialised into culturally normative...
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