1st Edition
Understanding and Promoting Access for People with Learning Difficulties Seeing the Opportunities and Challenges of Risk
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The issue of access is at the forefront of the practical challenges facing people with learning difficulties and people working with or supporting them. This engaging text brings together evidence, narratives and discussions that question and advance our understanding of the concept of access for people with learning difficulties. Seale and Nind draw on their expertise to analyse a wide range of... Read more
Selected Contents:1. Why the interest in access and learning disability? (Melanie Nind and Jane Seale) ACCESS TOOLS AND PROCESSES 2. Access in mind: a review of approaches to making ideas and information accessible (Jan Walmsley) 3. Creativity, Control and Communication: the use of life-story work as a tool to facilitate access (Ann Aspinall and Kate Gascoyne) 4. Access all areas: The use of symbols in public spaces (Chris Abbott and Cate Detheridge) ACCESS ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 5. Building bridges and bonds: Promoting social inclusion (Roy McConkey) 6. It’s my heritage too: Developing participatory methods for promoting access to heritage sites (Jonathan Rix) 7. No Looking back (Gary Butler) ACCESS EXPERIENCES 8. Taking a leap of faith (Mary Waight and members of the Bracknell advocacy group) 9. We don’t need protecting (Darren Grant, Wayne Taylor and Drew Bradley from Choice Advocacy, supported by Judith Clayton and Claire Royall) QUESTIONS OF ACCESS 10. Promoting access to community and participation: What role can citizenship education play? (Hazel Lawson)
Biography
Jane Seale and Melanie Nind both work in the School of Education at the University of Southampton. Both Jane and Melanie have a strong track record of publishing in the area of inclusion and learning disabilities and of publishing edited works with Routledge and other publishers.
