Project details: Concepts of access for people with learning disabilities: Towards a shared understanding
Research Team
1. Professor Melanie Nind
2. Dr Jane Seale
Funding Body
Duration
October 2005 - October 2007
Grant
£15,000
Description
A series of six invited seminars with the aim of advancing, through inter-disciplinary debate, our shared theoretical framework and understanding of the concept access for people with learning difficulties.
The objectives are:
- To bring together, in ongoing, focused discussion, people with learning disabilities, a range of practitioners including educators and health professionals, advocacy groups and rights campaigners, and new and experienced researchers;
- To engage in shared questioning of the concept of access: Access for what purpose? How do people experience access? What is worth accessing? What kind of access do people with learning disabilities want? How can access be enabled and evaluated?
- To stimulate and enrich the debate about access for people with learning disabilities with input from researchers working on access across a range of fields and disciplines;
- To enhance clarity around the concept of access for people with learning disabilities without over-simplifying what is involved;
- To foster the process of access through greater understanding.
Thematic Analysis of all seminars (word) or (pdf)
Theme Diagrams (pdf) or (powerpoint)
Seminar One: Personal Accounts of Access
Caroline Gray Presentation (powerpoint) or (pdf)
Jan Walmsley Presentation (powerpoint) or (pdf)
Lou Towson Presentation (powerpoint) or (powerpoint)
Seminar One Summary Notes (word) or (pdf)
Seminar Two: Access to Education and Employment
Chris Abbott Presentation (powerpoint) or (pdf)Seminar Two Summary Notes (word) or (pdf)
Symbolised Seminar Two Summary (pdf) or (pdf)
Seminar Three: Access to Health, Social Care and Citizenship
Seminar Three summary notes (word) or (pdf)
Seminar Four: Access to Culture, Environment and Human Rights
Jonty Rix presentation (word) or (pdf)
Seminar Four Summary Notes (word) or (pdf)
Symbolised Seminar Four Summary (word) or (pdf)
Seminar Five: Access to Community and Friendships
Roy McConkey Presentation (powerpoint) or (pdf)
Jane Seale and Melanie Nind Presentation (powerpoint) or (pdf)
Seminar Five Summary Notes (word) or (pdf)
Seminar Six: The past and future of access
Mabel Cooper and Dorothy Atkinson Presentation (powerpoint) or (pdf)
Seminar Six Summary Notes (word) or (pdf)
