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  • War and disability

    A series of articles concerned with the links between war and disability in developing countries (although the atrocities of war have also affected the so called 'developed' world - see for example, File no. 2002).

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  • Emma's story

    This is a short and inspiring article about a family's decision and work to have Emma educated in regular schools. Emma's mother openly discusses the continual fears she had for Emma, particularly concerning rejection and tormenting by other children, but ultimately writes that it has definitely been worth it.

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  • Statement on therapy with children

    This is a really great short article on the ways that workers (and therapists in particular) can work with parents and within their own service agencies to facilitate the inclusion of children with disabilities in the ordinary life of the community. Keyword: Professionals

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  • The Disability Blanket

    This article is an insider's view about what happens to people when services and the professionals who work in them come to dominate people's lives. For example he writes, ". .

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  • Citizenship and culture: the role of disabled people in Navajo society

    The authors completed a study of thirty four Navajo extended families, with a member with a disability. The disabilities diagnosed were all severe. Their findings indicated a very different perception of disability to a western one. Most importantly perhaps, the manifestation of a disability (e. g.

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  • A sense of belonging: Integration in recreation and leisure-time activities

    The major barriers to participation of people in community activities is not funding, but attitudinal barriers. These barriers mean that funding becomes a problem because people are not prepared to think creatively and flexibly.

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  • Choices are nice but not easy

    This paper is the product of the Advancing Choice Project which has been looking into the way people with severe disabilities make choices.

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  • Difference and defiance

    This editorial to a New Internationalist special on disability gives a brief introduction to the issue of disability cross culturally.

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  • The eye of the beholder

    The author begins by describing the lives of two boys with disabilities in India, one from a poor family with a negative experience of his disability and one from a rich family with a positive one.

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  • Sex Education

    Williams decided that she would avoid the often technical and constrictive approach of a 'how to teach' article because "any education has to be based on an understanding of the topic".

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