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Informacijos paslaugos neįgaliesiems: informacinės prieigos organizavimas Danijoje

Informacijos Mokslai, 2011
Straipsnio objektas – informacijos paslaugos Danijos neįgaliesiems. Siekiant atskleisti neįgaliųjų informacinio aprūpinimo šioje šalyje būklę, nagrinėjamos negalią turinčių asmenų prieigos prie informacijos galimybės ir situacija, už neįgaliųjų ...
Jurgita Rudžionienė, Indrė Lašinytė
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Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
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Disability in education response sheet [completed response from the Further Education Development Agency (FEDA)] [PDF]

, 2000
"FEDA welcomes the introduction of legislation for disability rights in education. This should ensure that disabled people have better access to educational opportunities.

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Tragic but brave or just crips with chips? Songs and their lyrics in the Disability Arts Movement in Britain [PDF]

, 2009
Disability culture is a site within which social and positional identities are struggled for and dominant discourses rejected; in which mainstream representations of people with impairments – as victims of personal tragedy – are held to the light and ...
Barnes, Berger, Britt, Campbell, COLIN CAMERON, Fiske, Hasler, Holdsworth, Holdsworth, Humphries, Marks, Martin, Masefield, Mercer, Miller, Morrison, Read, Reeve, Smith, Storey, Strinati, Sutherland, Swain, Swain, Swain, Taylor, Thomas, Young   +27 more
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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ergonomic Standards for Pedestrian Areas for Disabled People: Methodology and Sample Identification [PDF]

, 1988
This project is a TRRL research contract, the aim of which is to produce guidance on the design of pedestrian areas and footways for elderly and disabled people.
Berrett, B., Leake, G.R., May, A.D., Whelan, J.   +3 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Ergonomic standards for pedestrian areas for disabled people: literature review and consultations [PDF]

, 1988
As part of the project for the Transport and Road Research Laboratory concerned with the development of design guidance for pedestrian areas and footways to satisfy the needs of disabled and elderly people, a thorough examination of the literature ...
Berrett, B., Leake, G.R., May, A.D., Whelan, J.   +3 more
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Educating Health Professionals about Disability: A Review of Interventions [PDF]

, 2013
Health professionals need to understand the human rights and health needs of disabled people. This review of evidence on interventions demonstrates that a range of often innovative approaches have been trialled.
Anderson E.S., Cervasio K., Chmar J.E., Dehaitem M.J., Delucia L.M., Disability Rights Commission, Dorji S., Freudenthal J.J., Graham C.L., Jones P., Jurczyk I., Karlowicz K.A., Kleinert H.L., Larson-McNeal M., Mullen K., Oliver M., Shakespeare T., Sharma N., Sumilo D., Symons A.B., World Health Organization, World Health Organization and World Bank   +21 more
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‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn, Kate D'Cruz, Mark Brown, Jacinta Douglas, Dianne Winkler   +4 more
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