Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2267383
Rob Imrie
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Pub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2263628
Charlotte Featherstone, Richard Sharpe, Nick Axford, Sheena Asthana, Kerryn Husk
Autistic people demonstrate poor outcomes on objective measures of wellbeing, yet research centring lived experience provides a more nuanced picture. There is growing support for person-centred, holistic and community approaches to enhancing wellbeing for autistic people. Social prescribing may be one such approach. This qualitative study explored the concept of wellbeing for autistic adults – including barriers and self-management – and the implications of this for modifying social prescribing. It involved semi-structured interviews with 21 autistic adults in the UK. Reflexive thematic analysis of the data supports research suggesting that self-determination may underlie many aspects of wellbeing for autistic people. The COVID-19 pandemic provided new opportunities to develop wellbeing strategies but also had negative impacts. Social prescribing could promote self-determination by signposting autistic people to peer support opportunities building on intrinsic interests.
{"title":"Autistic adults’ experiences of managing wellbeing and implications for social prescribing","authors":"Charlotte Featherstone, Richard Sharpe, Nick Axford, Sheena Asthana, Kerryn Husk","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2263628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2263628","url":null,"abstract":"Autistic people demonstrate poor outcomes on objective measures of wellbeing, yet research centring lived experience provides a more nuanced picture. There is growing support for person-centred, holistic and community approaches to enhancing wellbeing for autistic people. Social prescribing may be one such approach. This qualitative study explored the concept of wellbeing for autistic adults – including barriers and self-management – and the implications of this for modifying social prescribing. It involved semi-structured interviews with 21 autistic adults in the UK. Reflexive thematic analysis of the data supports research suggesting that self-determination may underlie many aspects of wellbeing for autistic people. The COVID-19 pandemic provided new opportunities to develop wellbeing strategies but also had negative impacts. Social prescribing could promote self-determination by signposting autistic people to peer support opportunities building on intrinsic interests.","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136012622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2263631
Anna Borowska-Beszta, Mateusz Smieszek, Beata Borowska-Beszta
AbstractProper adaptation of banking mobile applications to the needs of people with disabilities can play a crucial role in minimising the financial exclusion. The article examines selected mobile banking applications of four Polish banks in the context of their adaptation to the needs of consumers with disabilities. The project used a descriptive case study method based on analytical induction, and observation was carried out for six months. The analysis of the application was conducted in two parts: the adaptation of interfaces and functionalities to the preferences of people with disabilities in terms of readability, the efficiency of the application, and comprehensibility of the form of information transfer, and other accessible functionalities within the analysed applications that meet the needs of people with disabilities. The study’s results indicate the strengths of the accessibility of the analysed mobile applications as well as their limitations in enhancing independent living for people with disabilities.Points of interestSmartphones and mobile apps are becoming an inseparable part of the everyday life of consumers all over the world.The paper examines the design of modern banking apps in Poland in the context of their adaptation to the needs of consumers with disabilities.While the tested mobile applications meet many criteria of accessibility, there is room for improvement.The study indicates that further guidelines are needed to improve the usability and accessibility of banking apps and help conduct further consumer research in this area.Keywords: Accessibilityassistive technologymobile appsmobile bankingcase study Disclosure statementThe authors report that there are no competing interests to declare.
{"title":"Mobile banking apps in Poland and their accessibility for consumers with disabilities: a case study","authors":"Anna Borowska-Beszta, Mateusz Smieszek, Beata Borowska-Beszta","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2263631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2263631","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractProper adaptation of banking mobile applications to the needs of people with disabilities can play a crucial role in minimising the financial exclusion. The article examines selected mobile banking applications of four Polish banks in the context of their adaptation to the needs of consumers with disabilities. The project used a descriptive case study method based on analytical induction, and observation was carried out for six months. The analysis of the application was conducted in two parts: the adaptation of interfaces and functionalities to the preferences of people with disabilities in terms of readability, the efficiency of the application, and comprehensibility of the form of information transfer, and other accessible functionalities within the analysed applications that meet the needs of people with disabilities. The study’s results indicate the strengths of the accessibility of the analysed mobile applications as well as their limitations in enhancing independent living for people with disabilities.Points of interestSmartphones and mobile apps are becoming an inseparable part of the everyday life of consumers all over the world.The paper examines the design of modern banking apps in Poland in the context of their adaptation to the needs of consumers with disabilities.While the tested mobile applications meet many criteria of accessibility, there is room for improvement.The study indicates that further guidelines are needed to improve the usability and accessibility of banking apps and help conduct further consumer research in this area.Keywords: Accessibilityassistive technologymobile appsmobile bankingcase study Disclosure statementThe authors report that there are no competing interests to declare.","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2263633
Gayle Brewer, Emily Urwin, Beth Witham
Disabled students remain systematically disadvantaged compared to their non-disabled peers. It is, therefore, essential that educational practitioners and policy makers appreciate the complexity of the disabled student experience. In the present study, we identified 60 online forum posts (and 31 replies to the posts) discussing personal experiences of disability and Higher Education. Online posts (and their replies) were subject to inductive thematic analysis and six themes were extracted from the data. These themes were (i) impact on education, (ii) isolation from peers, (iii) seeking advice and support, (iv) barriers to assistance and accommodations, (v) impact of accommodations, and (vi) providing guidance and support. Recommendations for practice focus on the practical and social support required to ensure that disabled students are neither marginalized nor disadvantaged.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2263629
Debra Hamilton, Nicola Hancock, Justin Newton Scanlan
The aim of this study was to explore the choice and control that people with a psychosocial disability (disability related to consequences of mental ill-health) experience as they engaged with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and to understand aspects that impeded their choice and control. NDIS is an Australian, personalised funding, insurance scheme designed to provide supports that enable individuals living with disability to live an ‘ordinary’ contributing life. This lived-experience-led, qualitative study employed constructivist grounded theory methods. Twenty people were interviewed in-depth. Findings evidenced the poor experiences of choice and control people had on the Scheme. Choice and control were impeded by systems and processes as well as failure to accommodate for challenges associated with mental ill-health. Introduction of the ‘psychosocial recovery framework’ offers hope of improved experiences of choice and control, but it needs to be accompanied by cultural change across the NDIS service system.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2263632
Diego Alfredo Solsona-Cisternas
AbstractMobilities are a social practice, which is managed around gaining access to services and activities that are important for daily life. At the same time, it is interpreted as a structural test where networks and resources are necessary to achieve them. With a qualitative approach, this research shows how disabled people in the South of Chile plan and achieve their mobilities using the resources available from their family and institutional networks. The results suggest that people together with their family, ‘kith,’ ‘other informal’, public and private institutions achieve ‘making possible’ their mobilities. Thus, they can access various services: healthcare, withdraw pensions, go shopping and deal with bureaucracy. Finally, we conclude that mobilities ‘produce the individual,’ in the sense that, depending on the source of the social supports that allow their mobilities, they may be considered ‘agentic’ or ‘institutionalised’ individuals.POINTS OF INTERESTMobilities allow access to services and activities of interest, and therefore play a key role in the social inclusion of disabled people.Mobilities can also be interpreted as daily challenges that people are forced to face in order to access various daily activities.Available research on this topic and the results of this study suggests that disabled people in rural areas manage to carry out their mobilities mainly due to support from family, institutional and ‘other informal’ networks.Mobility and its management might be incorporated into public policies, leading to improvements in the conditions for accessibility of disabled people, above all in rural areas.Keywords: Disabilitymobilitiesindividuationstructural testsocial supports AcknowledgementsThe author thanks everyone who voluntarily wanted to participate in this study, sharing their stories with me. I also thank the Municipality of San Juan de la Costa and the Municipal Health Corporation of Quinchao for helping me contact the participants.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingNational Agency for Research and Development (ANID) Chile, through the National Doctorate Grant 21180221.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2258320
Annisa , Kurnia Dwijayanti, Nur Azizah
{"title":"Disability, diversity and inclusive education in Haiti: learning, exclusion and educational relationships in the context of crises <b>Disability, diversity and inclusive education in Haiti: learning, exclusion and educational relationships in the context of crises</b> , by RochambeauLainy, New York, Routledge, 2023, 254 pp., £96.00 (hardcover), £31.19 (paperback), ISBN 9781032389462","authors":"Annisa , Kurnia Dwijayanti, Nur Azizah","doi":"10.1080/09687599.2023.2258320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2258320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48208,"journal":{"name":"Disability & Society","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135149731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-16DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2255735
Oksana Boyarchuk, Mariana Koshmaniuk
AbstractWar conflict is especially difficult for people with disabilities and their families. The aim of our study was to determine the impact of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on the lives of people with spina bifida. We initiated an online survey for people with spina bifida and 53 respondents gave answers. The survey showed that Russian aggression has a significant negative impact on the health of people with spina bifida: their access to basic services (in more than 50% of respondents), and to treatment (in more than 35%) and rehabilitation (in 62.3%). The most vulnerable were people with limited motor activity. Mental health of people was also greatly affected (in 67.9%). Counseling, information and psychological sustentation are important components of support for people with spina bifida and their families during wartime.Keywords: spina bifidawarimpactmedical carebasic servicesmental health AcknowledgmentThe authors would like to thank all children, adults with spina bifida and children’s parents for participation in the survey.The authors express their gratitude to the International charitable organization “Child-Help International” (Belgium)”, “The International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus”, “Fundacja Spina Polska”, “Ukraine Project Edegem”, Mission Ihor Vitenko, Polonijne Stowarzyszenie Kulturalno-Oświatowe w Tarnopolu, LLC “Nova Poshta” Ukraine, Coloplast w Polsce, Coloplast Slovakia, Adrian Goretzkii and Bernadeta Prandzioch from the Foundation “Healthcare Education Institute”, Poland for the support of patients with spina bifida in Ukraine.Author contributionsAll authors contributed to the study conception and design. Data collection was performed mainly by MK. Analysis and the first draft of the manuscript was performed by OB and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and provided critical feedback on manuscript drafts as well as approving the final version of the manuscript.Disclosure statementThe authors declare no competing interest.Data availabilityThe datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author (OB) on reasonable request.
战争冲突对残疾人及其家庭来说尤其困难。我们研究的目的是确定俄罗斯全面入侵乌克兰对脊柱裂患者生活的影响。我们发起了一项针对脊柱裂患者的在线调查，53名受访者给出了答案。调查显示，俄罗斯的侵略行为对脊柱裂患者的健康产生了重大的负面影响:他们获得基本服务(50%以上的答复者)、治疗(35%以上)和康复(62.3%)的机会。最脆弱的是那些运动能力有限的人。人们的心理健康也受到很大影响(占67.9%)。咨询、信息和心理支持是战时对脊柱裂患者及其家属支持的重要组成部分。关键词:脊柱裂影响医疗保健基本服务心理健康感谢所有参与本次调查的儿童、成人脊柱裂患者和儿童家长。作者对国际慈善组织“儿童援助国际”(比利时)、“国际脊柱裂和脑水联合会”、“波兰脊柱基金会”、“乌克兰Edegem项目”、Mission Ihor Vitenko、Polonijne Stowarzyszenie Kulturalno-Oświatowe w Tarnopolu, LLC“Nova Poshta”乌克兰、Coloplast w Polsce、Coloplast Slovakia、“卫生保健教育研究所”基金会的Adrian Goretzkii和Bernadeta Prandzioch表示感谢。波兰为乌克兰脊柱裂患者提供支持。所有作者都对研究的构思和设计做出了贡献。数据收集主要由MK完成。分析和手稿初稿由OB完成，所有作者都对以前的手稿版本进行了评论。所有作者阅读并提供对手稿草稿的关键反馈，以及批准手稿的最终版本。披露声明作者声明无竞争利益。数据可用性在当前研究期间生成和/或分析的数据集可根据合理要求从通讯作者(OB)处获得。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2023.2255926
Zosia Zaks
The medical model of disability describes a widespread approach to disability common since the 1800s that views disabilities of all sorts as abnormalities that need to be cured or eradicated. Under the medical model of disability, medical care for disabled people has focused on making the bodies and brains of disabled people conform as closely as possible to society’s idea of a normal person. This emphasis on normalization was and continues to be extremely harmful to disabled people. In this paper, I propose retroactively changing the term medical model of disability to normalization model of disability to avoid conflation with useful medical care and to highlight normalization as the quintessential harm of the model.
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