Self-Advocacy in the Lives of People with Learning Difficulties

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-335-20526-4
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Disability, Human Rights, and

* How do people with the label of learning difficulties challenge disabling environments?
* What role can professionals play in supporting such challenges?
* How do self-advocacy groups contribute to disability politics and the development of theories of disability?

This timely book sets out to answer these questions for students, teachers and practitioners working in the field. It examines self-advocacy in the lives of people with learning difficulties. The term 'learning difficulties' is used to describe people who have been labelled at some point in their lives as requiring specialist 'mental handicap services'. Learning difficulties is preferred over other synonyms such as mental handicap, mental impairment or learning disabilities, because it is the term preferred by many in the self-advocacy movement (the focus of this book).

Hitherto, a number of books have introduced and examined the notion of self-advocacy. This volume goes beyond these studies to offer an appraisal of self-advocacy in the lives of people with learning difficulties that is grounded in their own experiences. It redresses the dominant focus on learning difficulties as pathology or tragedy, highlighting the ways in which people so-labelled are fighting for their own human rights in a disabling society through their involvement in self-advocacy groups. It outlines a number of lessons for supporters, policy makers, professionals and service providers in relation to the resilience of self-advocates with learning difficulties and gives examples of good practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodley, Dan

Goodley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series editor's preface
Section 1: Setting the agenda
Introduction
Self-advocacy and people with learning difficulties
Self-advocacy, impairment and the social model of disability
Researching self-advocacy
Section 2: Living self-advocacy
Five life stories of 'top self-advocates'
Learning from life stories
Section 3: Self-advocacy in action
Inside Self-advocacy groups
Typologies and dynamics
Across self-advocacy groups
Support and models of disability
Section 4: Self-advocacy revisited
The politics of resilience
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dan Goodley is a lecturer and researcher in the Disability Research Unit, Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds.