The Development of the Role of Access Officer in Psychological Services

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 277-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Duguid
Keyword(s):  
Central Region ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
Psychological Service ◽  
Physically Disabled Children ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Initial Concept

This article describes the post of Access Officer as developed by the Psychological Service in Central Region, Scotland. It looks at how the needs of physically disabled children and the policy of integrating them into mainstream schools brought about the creation of the post, the initial concept of the post and how the post has broadened and developed over 4 years. It looks briefly at work still to be done and reports on some feedback from the service users.

“Every One of Them Are Worth It”: Blanche Van Leuven Browne and the Education of the “Crippled Child”

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-350
Author(s):  
Leanna Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Disability Rights ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
Orthopedic Disabilities ◽  
Physically Disabled Children ◽  
Future Citizen ◽  
Hospital School

Many rights struggles have promoted education and learning as proof of citizenship and capacity, and disability rights movements are no exception. Blanche Van Leuven Browne, one early twentieth-century polio survivor, reimagined the possibilities of education for “crippled children” by approaching schooling as not only preparation for vocational work but as a sign of disabled children's social worthiness. This article explores the role of education in Browne's life and work, from her childhood in the 1880s to the Detroit hospital-school for physically disabled children she operated from 1907 to 1918. Browne's educational approach emphasized writing and citizenship to (re)define the identity of the “crippled child,” envisioning each as an intelligent future citizen. This approach contrasted with predominant contemporary medical, philanthropic, and educational approaches, which emphasized medical care and vocational training for children with orthopedic disabilities. It also distanced physically disabled children from intellectually disabled children, who were key cultural targets of eugenic fears.

scholarly journals Role of Environment in Connecting Disabled and Abandoned Children to Society (A case Study of Turning Rofaydeh Welfare Complex Project into a House in a Neighborhood Park)

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Fateme Yarmohammad
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Mental Disability ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Field Methods ◽  
The People ◽  
Physically Disabled Children ◽  
Neighborhood Scale ◽  
Complex Project

<p class="zhengwen">Due to physical and mental disability, children tend to withdraw themselves from society especially if their parents abandon them, and if society fail to establish a suitable relationship with these children, their presence will uproot from society. In this paper, we deals with the case Rofaydeh Welfare Services Complex in Iran in the he city of Tehran where 60 disabled, mentally or physically disabled children are taken care of, some of them were also orphans. The aim of the article is to provide an environment which is conducive to more relationship and interaction of these children with members of society with regard to their lack of caretaker and family, as well as protecting the primacy of the children's living spaces as their home.</p><p>The research methodology included library and field methods; thus, suitable strategies were developed to achieve the goal of this paper. The research indicates that designing the complex as a house in the middle of the neighborhood park allows for children's presence in the society among the people and close interaction with people through being positioned in a neighborhood park, as well as providing the presence of the children in a space similar to a house which is every child's wish. On neighborhood scale, the park protects the children from social damages so that they feel sense of intimacy working between them and people.</p>

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