Understanding and promoting access for people with learning difficulties
Subtitle: seeing the opportunities and challenges of risk
By: edited by Jane Seale and Melanie Nind.
Contributors: Seale, Jane.; Nind, Melanie.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780415479479; 9780415479486; 9780203092125
Subjects: Learning disabled -- Education; Inclusive education; Learning disabled -- Services for; Social integration
Table of contents: title: Access for people with learning difficulties: new rhetoric or meaningful concept? / Melanie Nind and Jane Seale; title: Access in mind: a review of approaches to accessible information for people with learning disabilities / Jan Walmsley; title: Creativity, choice, and control: the use of multimedia life story work as a tool to facilitate access / Ann Aspinall; title: Access all areas: the use of symbols in public spaces / Chris Abbott and Cate Detheridge; title: Access all areas: we are VIPs / Ginny Aird ... [et al.]; title: It's my heritage too: developing participatory methods for promoting access to heritage sites / Jonathan Rix with the Heritage Forum; title: Promoting access to community and participation: what role can citizenship education play? / Hazel Lawson; title: Talking together about access: "when I am here I don't feel like I've got any problems" / Drew Bradley ... [et al.]; title: Promoting social inclusion through building bridges and bonds / Roy McConkey and Suzanne Collins; title: If we have got it wrong for people with learning disabilities, have we got it wrong for other people as well? / Duncan Mitchell; title: I'm in control / Gary Butler; title: Access and the concept of risk: preventing bad things from happening or making good things happen / Jane Seale and Melanie Nind.