Search results for "disability"

Nine Rules of Engagement: Reflections on Reflexivity

2019

Wishing to be reflexive, to critically examine our assumptions, is easy. Doing it is less so. For researchers doing a study in their own professional field, it represents a particular challenge. In this essay, I explore this challenge using my own study as exemplar. I am researching workplace inclusion of workers with intellectual disability. As a professional, I have worked with and for people with intellectual disability for many years. The knowledge I bring to my inquiry – about the inabilities, vulnerabilities and needs ascribed to persons labelled thus – is deeply entrenched in common culture, as well as in my professional training. How can I handle this knowledge in my research? To wh…

DEPRESSION, SELF-RATED HEALTH STATUS AND DISABILITY THE EUROPEAN STUDY ON ADULT WELL-BEING (ESAW)

2009

Coordinated Interpersonal Behaviour in Collective Dance Improvisation: The Aesthetics of Kinaesthetic Togetherness

2018

International audience; Collective dance improvisation (e.g., traditional and social dancing, contact improvisation) is a participatory, relational and embodied art form which eschews standard concepts in aesthetics. We present our ongoing research into the mechanisms underlying the lived experience of "togetherness" associated with such practices. Togetherness in collective dance improvisation is kinaesthetic (based on movement and its perception), and so can be simultaneously addressed from the perspective of the performers and the spectators, and be measured. We utilise these multiple levels of description: the first-person, phenomenological level of personal experiences, the third-perso…

Meryl Shriver-Rice (2015) Inclusion in New Danish Cinema: Sexuality and Transnational Belonging

2017

“Diagnosing” the Need or in “Need” of a Diagnosis? Reconceptualizing Educational Need

2017

This chapter is based on compulsory school experiences of students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and their parents in the educational context of Finland. Located in the theoretical framework of Disability Studies, the chapter aims to contribute to theory of inclusive education by initiating a new dialogue on conceptual foundations of inclusive schooling. In this regard, the chapter first deconstructs the concept of educational need that stems from the field of traditional special education as contradictory to the original ideals of inclusive education. It then moves on to reconstruct the concept of educational need in accordance with the foundational values …

Disability Management e culture organizzative: Verso la definizione di un modello di orientamento culturale dell’organizzazione verso la disabilità a…

2016

L’ultimo decennio ha visto indubbiamente aumentare la sensibilità delle aziende italiane nei confronti del Disability Management, inteso come un approccio strategico finalizzato alla valorizzazione e all’empowering dei lavoratori con disabilità. A fronte di questa crescente attestazione d’interesse, tradotta peraltro in sempre più numerose iniziative gestionali mirate, si riscontra tuttavia ad oggi una carenza di modelli che consentano di valutare se, e quanto, la cultura e i valori di un’organizzazione siano congruenti con l’implementazione e lo sviluppo di pratiche di gestione delle differenze legate alla disabilità, pienamente in linea con una logica di valorizzazione delle diverse abili…

Disability management in azienda: Il valore dei limiti

2017

L'articolo mira a definire il Diversity Management Disability in termini di cultura organizzativa, partendo da quello che è il senso del “Limite” e il suo superamento e spiegando in cosa consiste il Disability Management e il suo utilizzo.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human rights of women and girls with disabilities

2021

El presente artículo aborda la situación de especial vulnerabilidad en la que se encuentran las mujeres y niñas con discapacidad, la cual se ha visto agravada en el contexto de la crisis provocada por la pandemia de Covid-19. En efecto, en la primera parte el autor toma nota del actual deterioro de los derechos humanos de las mujeres y niñas con discapacidad, lo cual constituye un desafío para evitar su marginación en términos de doble discriminación. Para afrontar dicho reto, en la segunda parte se pone el énfasis en el papel crucial de la Convención de Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de las personas con discapacidad como estándar mínimo de protección. En este sentido, en la tercera par…

From social stigma to family referent, boccia for a change on the way of thinking

2016

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the practice of Boccia (adapted sport) with children aged between 4 and 14 years old with cerebral palsy in rural India and the changes that this implies in social recognition and quality of family life. This study took place between January 2015 and February 2016. The research aims to fill the knowledge gap given the little information that exists on the importance of the context, specifically in the case of a family with a disabled person. This project is part of the "Family Centred Program" and is based on the use of a structured interview called Family Quality of Life McWilliams (FaQuOL). A statistical analysis using SPSS was conducted t…

La honte d’exister

2013

RésuméÀ la différence de la honte sociale, la honte ontologique se distingue nettement de la culpabilité. La culpabilité a trait à ce que l’on fait (ou ce que l’on est supposé avoir fait), tandis que la honte ontologique se rapporte à ce que l’on est (ou à ce que l’on se sent être). Cette honte se manifeste sous diverses formes : échecs involontairement entretenus, agressivité, déni. La honte ontologique est fréquemment liée au handicap en raison de ce qu’il représente pour soi (ne plus être soi après l’accident), pour sa famille (la venue d’un enfant qui a un handicap de naissance). Mais la honte d’exister n’est pas réservée aux personnes qui ont un handicap, de même qu’il n’est pas obliga…