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Exploring Experiences of Advocacy by People with Learning Disabilities: Testimonies of Resistance de Duncan Mitchell

Exploring Experiences of Advocacy by People with Learning Disabilities: Testimonies of Resistance

Editat de Duncan Mitchell, Rannveig Traustadottir, Rohhss Chapman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2006
This book charts the course through which people with learning disabilities have become increasingly able to direct their own lives as fully active members of their communities. Many of the personal accounts, photographs and songs included in this book will be accessible and encouraging to people with learning disabilities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781843103592
ISBN-10: 1843103591
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Duncan Mitchell is Professor of Health and Disability at Manchester Metropolitan University and Head of Clinical Services for Manchester Learning Disability Partnership. Rannveig Traustadottir is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. She is active in national and international disability associations and is the President of the Nordic Network on Disability Research. Rohhss Chapman is a development worker for Cumbria People First, and is studying for a PhD on self advocacy and people with learning disabilities at The Open University, UK. She is also a member of the Social History of Learning Disabilities Group. Louise Townson is Project Director for Carlisle People First, and is a member of the UK Government task force on Valuing People. Nigel Ingham has, during the past 25 years, developed inter-agency reminiscence and oral history projects in North West England and South East Scotland while working in adult education and the voluntary sector. Currently he is working for Community Service Volunteers (CSV), managing a Heritage Lottery-funded project archiving the residential and working culture of the Royal Albert Hospital, Lancaster, a former large Victorian long-stay institution for people with learning difficulties. Sue Ledger is a service manager with an inner London borough and has worked alongside people with learning difficulties in developing a range of support services in the UK and with two overseas projects.

Cuprins

1. Introduction, Duncan Mitchell, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.Part I: Personal Accounts of Advocacy and Resistance. 2. Advocacy as Resistance: Speaking Up as a Way of Fighting Back, Dorothy Atkinson, The Open University, UK, Mabel Cooper and Gloria Ferris, London Consultative Group, UK. 3. Restriction and Resistance: The Experience of Life on a Locked Ward for People with Learning Disabilities, Katherine Owen, The Open University, UK. 4. `I Would Never Walk, Talk, Sit or Stand!' The Girl on the Tricycle, Marjorie Chappell, independent writer and speaker, with Duncan Mitchell. 5. Two Pioneers of Self-advocacy: Ray Loomis and Tom Houlihan, Paul Williams, University of Reading, UK. 6. `I've Had Enough of the Everyday Thing': Karen Spencer's Life Story, Karen Spencer, Central England People First, UK, with Jan Walmsley, The Open University, UK. 7. Resilience and Resistance in the Life Histories of Three Women with Learning Difficulties in Iceland, Gudrún Stefánsdóttir, Iceland University of Education, and Rannveig Traustadóttir, University of Iceland, Reykjavik,Iceland. 8. Songs of Resistance, Sue Ledger and Lindy Shufflebotham, tbc. Part II: Speaking for Ourselves: Accounts of Self-advocacy in Action. 9. My Life, My Choices, Paul Savage, Tina Wilkinson and Carl Worth, Speaking Up for Action. 10. `What They Want - Yes, But What We Want - Bugger Us!', Andy Docherty, Elizabeth Harkness, Malcolm Eardley and Louise Townson, Carlisle People First, UK, and Rohhss Chapman, The Open University, UK. 11. The Life of a Group and a Personal Story: Experiences from Huddersfield People First, Jeremy Hoy, Huddersfield People First, UK, Dries Cautrels and Dan Goodley, University of Sheffield, UK. Part III: Alliances with Others. 12. Fires Burning: Advocacy, Camping and Children with Learning Disabilities in Ontario, 1950-1990, Jessa Chupik, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. 13. Resistance in Mencap's History, Liz Tilley, The Open University, UK. 14. One Man's Dream that Continues to Inspire Others, Heather Cadbury, Teddington Area Reminiscence Group, UK. 15. Maureen Oswin and the `Forgotten Children' of the Long-stay Wards: Research as Resistance, Sheena Rolph and Dorothy Atkinson, The Open University, UK. 16. Tales from the Burdens, Peter Carpenter, Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust, UK. 17. Taking a Stand Against the Odds, Kelley Johnson, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Part IV: Alternative Interpretations: Reflections on Resistance. 18. Assistance and Resistance: Making Sense of Inter-war Caring Strategies, Pamela Dale, University of Exeter, UK. 19. Stereotyped Behaviour: Resistance by People with Profound Learning Disabilities, Melanie Nind, University of Southampton, UK. 20. Conclusion, Duncan Mitchell. The Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.