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The Kilbrandon report and disabled children: some reflections 50 years on

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014
Fifty years after the publication of the Kilbrandon Report 1964, which paved the way for the creation of the Children's Hearings System in Scotland, this reflective paper revisits what the report had to say about disabled children and young people.
Kirsten Stalker
doaj   +1 more source

Helping chronically ill or disabled people into work: what can we learn from international comparative analyses? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This project has added to knowledge in five main areas: It has mapped the range and types of policies and interventions that have been implemented in Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK that may influence employment chances for chronically ill ...
Burstrom, Bo   +10 more
core  

Special school staff perspectives on how careers guidance is provided to their autistic young people

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Careers guidance has long been positioned as a tool to improve young people's transition from education to employment. In addition, schools and colleges in England have a statutory requirement to provide careers guidance to their students. Yet limited research has investigated how careers guidance is provided in special schools for autistic ...
Sam Dexter   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disabled People or Their Support Persons' Perceptions of a Community Based Multi-Sensory Environment (MSE): A Mixed-Method Study. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2023
Wilkinson A   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Expressive haptics for enhanced usability of mobile interfaces in situations of impairments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Designing for situational awareness could lead to better solutions for disabled people, likewise, exploring the needs of disabled people could lead to innovations that can address situational impairments.
Bhatnagar, Tigmanshu   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A rights‐informed and respecting approach to more inclusive schools: Based on a Citizens' Panel pilot project

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is about how a rights perspective, both children's and others' rights, can be used to make sense of schooling which is more inclusive of children and young people with special educational needs/disabilities (SEN/D). It is based on a project that used deliberative democratic approaches, in the form of a Citizens' Panel, to address ...
Brahm Norwich
wiley   +1 more source

Independent Living, Politics and Implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
[Excerpt] The idea of ‘independent’ living as used by the disabled people’s movement around the world is a radical concept firmly rooted in the ideological, cultural and pragmatic traditions of western society.
Barnes, Colin
core   +1 more source

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