Search Results

Facilitating friendships in the workplace

Friends can be important in finding and keeping a job; friends can contribute to the long term security of a person; one of the benefits of integrated employment will be the possibility of increased social relationships and participation, resulting in the formation of friendships.

Courage

A great poem written from the perspective of a high school student. The student realises after a history lesson on genocide that the exclusion of a student with a disability (Diane) at the school is a much smaller version of such historical atrocities.

Assumptions and stereotypes

This very brief article looks at the effects stereotyping has on people with disabilities and their families. Taken from social role valorisation theory, the author asks professionals and human service workers whether they are giving negative messages about people's image and competence through the service they provide.

Examples of Curricular Adaptations for Students with Severe Disabilities in the Elementary Classroom

The authors of this article were part of a study group focussing on how students with severe disabilities can actively participate in lessons within the regular classroom (K- Year 5) alongside their non disabled peers.

Working Toward Inclusive Schools: Guidelines for Developing a Building-based Process to Create Change

The goal of the Inclusive Education Project was to "create or further develop schools as communities in which all students. . . can attend and experience full membership".

Including all students in the general education curriculum

An article specifically related to the concept of 'curriculum' as seen in most western countries.

Modifying rules of a regular girls softball league to facilitate the inclusion of a child with severe disabilities

"Although many local recreation programs are opening their doors to individuals with disabilities, the vast majority of individuals with more severe disabilities still do not participate in community based recreation programs. . . . . .

Normalisation: A Reader for the Nineties

This is the first book to bring together varied perspectives on its theory and practical application (and as such, Family Advocacy does not necessarily agree with all that is written).

The Pursuit of Leisure: Enriching the Lives of People who have a Disability

Unlike other books on leisure which portray leisure as a discrete 'segment' of life and think about this segment in terms of 'activities' and 'programs' and 'training', this book actually talks about what leisure means to people who have a disability and their families - focussing on how leisure experiences...

A Brief Introduction to Social Role Valorisation as a High-Order Concept for Structuring Services; 3rd (revised) edition

This monograph, while not 'brief' in the usual sense, introduces and defines the theory of Social Role Valorisation (SRV) and its underlying (and interwoven) themes. The monograph serves as an initial orientation to the major subtopics of SRV.

Ordinary Lives