This discussion paper sets out to describe the way disability-related advertising is currently undertaken. It highlights major issues which arose during wide ranging discussions with advertising practitioners, charity advertisers and people with disabilities. It ends with a series of suggestions to the advertising industry, charities and the King's Fund regarding ...
The Long Term Care Team at the King's Fund Centre was concerned that there were difficulties facing some disabled people coming into contact with staff of health authorities. This meeting was set up to bring together multi-disciplinary professional trainers to look at the issue of health authority staff's attitudes to ...
The Relief Care Support Group first met in December 1980 when there were a number of workers involved in London relief care schemes. It aims to enable people to get together more formally and spend time sharing and learning from each other. The group was started as a support group ...
Among the activities supported by the King's Fund Centre for the International Year of Disabled People were a series of lunch-time talks on key questions which needed to be addressed if the aims of the year were to be realised. This collection reproduces the text of the talks detailed below: ...
The first workshop began with the showing of a video "Home from home" from the Bristol Arts Project, which provoked much discussion. Questions raised included `Why do we need reviews?'; `Who benefits?'; `Who does them?' and `When are they done?' The second workshop focussed on these questions in more detail ...
These two workshops had a common theme, that of admissions policies as they affect students with disabilities. Participants in the workshops were especially invited, all having a particular interest in college admissions policies. They were mainly college principals; special advisors for students with disabilities in colleges of further education, polytechnics ...
This report explores a number of issues concerning the relationship between education and employment; changing views on employment and work in view of present unemployment trends; integration compared with the use of specialist provision, and special inputs to support integration on ordinary courses. The report includes individual case studies, lists ...
The songs in this book are designed for the pre-school child in a nursery or playgroup and for children with disabilities. They are intended to assist the child to develop body awareness, to promote simple learning concepts and to overcome perceptual difficulties. They have been used successfully with children who ...