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Understanding and promoting access for people with learning difficulties: seeing the opportunities and challenges of risk

Understanding and promoting access for people with learning difficulties: seeing the opportunities and challenges of risk
Understanding and promoting access for people with learning difficulties: seeing the opportunities and challenges of risk
The issue of access is at the forefront of the practical challenges facing people with learning difficulties and people working with or supporting them. This engaging text brings together evidence, narratives and discussions that question and advance our understanding of the concept of access for people with learning difficulties. Seale and Nind draw on their expertise to analyse a wide range of situations, including access to public spaces, citizenship education, community participation, and employment.

Through a series of related chapters, key researchers in the field of inclusion and learning difficulties enrich the access debate by:

o considering what kind of access people with learning difficulties want;

o identifying effective practice in relation to facilitating and promoting access;

o revealing the capability of people with learning difficulties to seek and achieve access to potentially exclusionary communities;

o providing a space for a wide range of people to share access stories.

With contributions from a variety of stakeholders including people with learning difficulties, Understanding and Promoting Access for People with Learning Difficulties clarifies the concept of access without over-simplifying what is involved. Through rigorous critique, this book provides a unique rationale for a new multi-dimensional model of access and ways of promoting it.

Proposing a reconceptualisation of the risk associated with promoting access for people with learning difficulties, this book will be of immense interest to students, researchers and professionals involved in inclusion and disability issues.
learning difficulties, special educational needs, inclusion, access
9780415479486
Routledge
Seale, Jane
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Nind, Melanie
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Seale, Jane
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Nind, Melanie
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Seale, Jane and Nind, Melanie (eds.) (2009) Understanding and promoting access for people with learning difficulties: seeing the opportunities and challenges of risk , Abingdon, GB. Routledge, 190pp.

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The issue of access is at the forefront of the practical challenges facing people with learning difficulties and people working with or supporting them. This engaging text brings together evidence, narratives and discussions that question and advance our understanding of the concept of access for people with learning difficulties. Seale and Nind draw on their expertise to analyse a wide range of situations, including access to public spaces, citizenship education, community participation, and employment.

Through a series of related chapters, key researchers in the field of inclusion and learning difficulties enrich the access debate by:

o considering what kind of access people with learning difficulties want;

o identifying effective practice in relation to facilitating and promoting access;

o revealing the capability of people with learning difficulties to seek and achieve access to potentially exclusionary communities;

o providing a space for a wide range of people to share access stories.

With contributions from a variety of stakeholders including people with learning difficulties, Understanding and Promoting Access for People with Learning Difficulties clarifies the concept of access without over-simplifying what is involved. Through rigorous critique, this book provides a unique rationale for a new multi-dimensional model of access and ways of promoting it.

Proposing a reconceptualisation of the risk associated with promoting access for people with learning difficulties, this book will be of immense interest to students, researchers and professionals involved in inclusion and disability issues.

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Published date: 9 July 2009
Keywords: learning difficulties, special educational needs, inclusion, access

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Local EPrints ID: 66733
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66733
ISBN: 9780415479486
PURE UUID: d1c2f068-2b59-41e6-9936-cae5ae85cbe5
ORCID for Melanie Nind: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4070-7513

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Date deposited: 14 Jul 2009
Last modified: 23 Jul 2022 01:53

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Editor: Jane Seale
Editor: Melanie Nind ORCID iD

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