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Understanding and promoting access for people with learning difficulties : seeing the opportunities and challenges of risk / edited by Jane Seale and Melanie Nind.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Learning disabled--Education.
- Learning disabled.
- Inclusive education.
- Learning disabled--Services for.
- Social integration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 situations, including access to public spaces, citizenship education, community participation, and employment. Through a series of related chapters, key researchers in the field of inc
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Access for people with learning difficulties: New rhetoric or meaningful concept?; Part 2 Access to and through information; Chapter 2 Access in mind: A review of approaches to accessible information for people with learning disabilities; Chapter 3 Creativity, choice and control: The use of multimedia life story work as a tool to facilitate access; Part 3 Access all areas
- Chapter 4 Access all areas: The use of symbols in public spacesChapter 5 Access all areas: We are VIPs; Chapter 6 It's my heritage too: Developing participatory methods for promoting access to heritage sites; Part 4 Rights and responsibilities; Chapter 7 Promoting access to community and participation: What role can citizenship education play?; Chapter 8 Talking together about access: 'When I am here I don't feel like I've got any problems'; Chapter 9 Promoting social inclusion through building bridges and bonds; Part 5 Multilayered access
- Chapter 10 If we have got it wrong for people with learning disabilities, have we got it wrong for other people as well?Chapter 11 I'm in control; Part 6 Conclusion; Chapter 12 Access and the concept of risk: Preventing bad things from happening or making good things happen?; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-21065-9
- 1-282-23415-3
- 9786612234156
- 0-203-09212-0
- 9780203092125
- OCLC:
- 436342304
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