Beyond Disability

Gerald Hales is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University CONTRIBUTORS Colin Barnes University of Leeds Deborah Cooper National Bureau for Students with Disabilities Marian Corker Ken Davis Derbyshire Coalition of Disabled People Vic Finkelstein Open University Sally French Brunel University Bernard Leach Manchester Metropolitan University Dick Leaman Lambeth Accord Ann Macfarlane Consultant Disability Services Sue Napolitano Brenda Smith City University Ossie Stuart University of York Sian Vasey, TV Producer and Presenter for 'Does He Take Sugar?' Collette Welch London Borough of Waltham Forest Sallie Withers Herefordshire Lifestyles Ray Woolfe Keele University

Introduction - Gerald Hales PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE Aspects of Intervention - Ann Macfarlane Consultation, Care, Help and Support Key Issues in Support - Collette Welch PART TWO: THE PRACTICALITIES Mobility Impairment - Sue Napolitano Visual Impairment and Disability - Colin Barnes A Hearing Difficulty as Impairment - Mairian Corker Learning Difficulties - Sheila Ford PART THREE: HOW DOES IT FEEL? The Experience of Care - Sian Vasey Disabled People and the Equal Opportunities Movement - Bernard Leach The Experience of Counselling - Sallie Withers Being a Counsellor - Ray Woolfe PART FOUR: MAKING IT WORK Simulation Exercises in Disability Awareness Training - Sally French A Critique Disability and Legislation - Ken Davis Rights and Equality Legislation - Deborah Cooper A Practical Example - Young People and Education Working Choices - Brenda Smith The Attitudes of Health Professionals towards Disabled People - Sally French PART FIVE: THE WAY FORWARD Four Camels of Disability - Dick Leaman Developing New Services - Vic Finkelstein and Ossie Stuart

`Beyond Disability... raises questions such as why services tend to miss the needs experienced by disabled people themselves, what is it like to be disabled - and what is it like to experience different impairments such as mobility, visual or intellectual impairments. The volume includes sections on legislation (anti-discrimination), counselling, the attitudes of professionals, and concludes with a `diagnosis of the present', co-authored by one of the grand old men of the British disability movement, Vic Finkelstein.' Acta Sociologica `Overall,the book is an insightful investigation into the perceptions and experiences, struggles, and responsiblities of a society concerned about sensitively addressing issues of disability' - Contemporary Psychology `This text moves the disability debate onwards from blunt challenges to prevailing models of disability.... It Explains both the complexities and the practicalities of access from a vairety of perspectives.... It [the book] offers alternatives to assumptions about intervention which are profoundly challenging. I would recommend it to all readers who are interested in reflecting upon their role in the alleviation of communication disability' - Bulletin `The value of this section [Section II] is that the authors bring out common themes from the basis of different impairments - and highlight some of the complexities which are hidden by using broad categories of disability.... This wide-ranging book provides a broad overview of disability and social responses witha balance of personal experience, policy analysis and theoretical perspectives' - Social Policy `This book is a useful tool.... I rather like the "beyond disability" notion' - Community Care 'The second section is by far the most rewarding with the chapter [ten] on the changing perceptions of impairment in Nicaragua and its political symbolism and uses being a cross between anthropoligical study and cultural studies. It is this mix of disciplines which enables this text to rise above single discipline texts as its salience and analysis has a depth to it which is rarely achieved.... The editor's own chapter on the import of Norway's rehabilitation ideology to the unsuspecting hands of Botswana is a wonderful example of how such an analysis should work' - Disability and Society