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Selected Topics - Disability
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Studies on Disability at UNSW
Events
Global policies and related documents
- United Nations: World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons
"The World Programme of Action (WPA) is a global strategy to enhance disability prevention, rehabilitation and equalization of opportunities, which pertains to full participation of persons with disabilities in social life and national development. The WPA also emphasizes the need to approach disability from a human rights perspective."
- United Nations: The Standard Rules for the Equalization of Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1993, the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities represent a strong moral and political commitment of Governments to take action to attain equalization of opportunities for persons with disabilities. The rules serve as an instrument for policy-making and as a basis for technical and economic cooperation.
- World report on disability
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is largely due to the lack of services available to them and the many obstacles they face in their everyday lives. The report provides the best available evidence about what works to overcome barriers to health care, rehabilitation, education, employment, and support services, and to create the environments which will enable people with disabilities to flourish. The report ends with a concrete set of recommended actions for governments and their partners. [publication overview] [WHO World Health Organization and the World Bank Group - June 2011]
Reports, guidelines and projects
- An exploration of different models of multi-agency partnerships in key worker services for disabled children: effectiveness and costs
A key worker has been described as a named person whom a family can approach for advice about, and practical help with any problem related to a disabled child. This report, published by the University of Kent (UK) compares the implementation and operation of different models of key worker services and assess the outcomes for parents and children of the provision of different models of key worker services as well as investigating sources of funding and costs of different models of key worker services.
- Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Australia)
Australian Legal Information Institute
- Disability, poverty and development, UK Department for International Development, 2000. (PDF)
This report assesses the significance of disability as a key development issue and its importance in relation to poverty, human rights and the achievement of internationally agreed development targets.
- Disabled Peoples cost of living: More than you would think (PDF) 122pg. Oct 2004
This report presents budget standards for groups of disabled people with a range of disabilities.
- Indicators of Health and Well-being for Children and Young People with Disabilities: Mapping the Terrain and Proposing a Human Rights Approach
"This review of the literature has been prepared in the context of a research study which aims to investigate the development of a robust set of indicators to measure the health and well-being of children and young people with disabilities. Two approaches are being used in the study to inform the development of a set of indicators: the first approach takes a human rights perspective and utilises the United Nations (UN) Conventions, specifically the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to conceptualise items relevant to children and young people with disabilities; the second approach is consumer and advocacy oriented and involves children and young people aged between seven and twenty-four years of age in focus groups discussing the topic of their health and well-being. This study arose against the background of children and youth with disabilities in Australia faring poorly compared to their non-disabled peers, a situation that is in direct contravention to Australia’s obligations under human rights conventions. Progress on developing indicators to monitor health and well-being for children and youth has not extended to those with disabilities and there is reason to believe that additional indicators may be appropriate. In particular, this review of the literature aims to develop an understanding of how studies into well-being have been formulated, what ways exist already to measure child health and well-being, and how health and well-being might be addressed in the context of children and young people with disabilities. As such, the review examines developing a framework for indicator development from a human rights perspective. By doing so, the literature review suggests a model that can be used to measure health and well-being across a broad population, but also disaggregated to specifically address the well-being of children and youth with disabilities in a way that is meaningful to them." [Prepared under Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) Seeding Grant, 2009-2010]
- Silent voices: women with disabilities ahttp://www.nod.org/nd family and domestic violence
This 2003 report by Judith Cockram for People with Disabilities (Western Australia) presents the findings of research aimed at the nature and extent of domestic violence against women with disabilities and whether their needs were being met by the services provided. Includes an extensive review of the literature.
Educational resources
Organisations and Networks
UN and multinational
Government
- Disability.gov
The U.S. federal government's disability information page
Non Government
- The Arc
"The Arc is the national organization of and for people with mental retardation and related developmental disabilities and their families. It is devoted to promoting and improving supports and services for people with mental retardation and their families. The association also fosters research and education regarding the prevention of mental retardation in infants and young children."
- CAST Center for Applied Special Technology
CAST is a non-profit organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities, through the research and development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation
This foundation, which is a merger of the American Paralysis Foundation and the Christopher Reeve Foundation is dedicated to funding research that develops treatments and cures for paralysis caused by spinal cord injury and other central nervous system disorders.
- Independent Living Institute
The Independent Living Institute offers resources for persons with extensive disabilities and develops consumer-driven policies for self-determination, self-respect and dignity.
- National Organisation on Disability (America)
"The mission of the National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) is to expand the participation and contribution of America’s 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life by raising disability awareness through programs and information."
Academic Institutions with particular focus in this area
Key Conferences, conference and workshop reports
Conference reports
Journals, Newsletters, Forums
Bibliographies, Libraries
Public health bookshops
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