Disability: Reports

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• Children with disabilities: invisible no more (Journal article)
  This Lancet editorial comments on the recently published UNICEF report, The State of the World's Children 2013, which focuses on children with disabilities.
  
  Publisher: The Lancet
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The State of the World’s Children 2013: children with disabilities
  The 2013 edition of The State of the World’s Children is dedicated to the situation of children with disabilities. The report examines the barriers – from inaccessible buildings to dismissive attitudes, from invisibility ...
  
  Publisher: UNICEF
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Community Care: 'This is social work with knobs on’: the realities of supporting disabled children
  This article challenges the perception that supporting children with learning disabilities is an ‘easy’ branch of social work.
  
  Publisher: Community Care
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Using vouchers to improve access to short breaks: case study from Falkirk Council (IRISS)
  This case study describes how Falkirk Council embarked on a process of understanding how they could improve the short break experience for carers.
  
  Publisher: IRISS
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The state of caring 2013
  This report details the results of a survey of over 3,000 carers across the UK caring full-time for older, disabled or seriously ill loved ones. It shows that a third receive no practical support, many are struggling alo ...
  
  Publisher: Carers UK
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Shining a light on augmentative and alternative communication
  This report is the culmination of a three-year research project into augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) by the charity Communication Matters. It found that nearly a third of a million people across the UK ( ...
  
  Publisher: Communication Matters
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Review of the Family Fund Trust: research report
  The Family Fund allocates grants according to specific criteria relating to the child’s disability, receipt of a range of benefits, and proof of UK residency. According to the authors, the model of government funding alo ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Parent carer forum involvement in shaping health services – second report
  Contact a Family published this report following a survey of parent carer forums, asking about their work with health services and their involvement with clinical commissioning groups, health and wellbeing boards and He ...
  
  Publisher: Contact a Family (CAF)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Adolescents with physical disability: seeing the individual in context
  The author argues that adolescence is a time of profound developmental change and those with physical disabilities can face barriers to their development in a number of areas. While many of these may not affect their phy ...
  
  Publisher: Archives of Disease in Childhood
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Oral health care for children with developmental disabilities
  This clinical report describes the effect that poor oral health has on children with developmental disabilities as well as the importance of partnerships between the pediatric medical and dental homes. Basic knowledge of ...
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Community Care: How the latest research on safeguarding disabled children should inform social work
  According to this article, practitioners should take time to find out disabled children's perception of events, understand their wishes and feelings, and support them to participate.
  
  Publisher: Community Care
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• The development and outcomes of a pediatric palliative care program: a quality improvement process
  Palliative care strives to enhance quality of life in the face of a life-threatening illness without hastening or postponing death, helping the individual to live as long and normally as possible. The World Health Organi ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Pediatric Nursing
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Falling through the net: illegal exclusions, the experiences of families with disabled children in England and Wales
  According to this report, disabled children are routinely illegally excluded from school with a devastating impact on their education and mental health.
  
  Publisher: Contact A Family (CAF)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• Fulfilling potential: building a deeper understanding of disability in the UK today
  This report provides an analysis of the number of disabled people in the UK and looks at the way disability develops over the life course and at the fluctuating nature of disability. In Part 2 the report focuses on the l ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
  Published Date: 2013
  
  
• A different life: caring for an adolescent or young adult with severe cerebral palsy
  Mothers of children with severe functional disabilities often assume roles that exceed the normative activities of parenting in relation to the intensity, complexity, and temporal nature of the family caregiver experienc ...
  
  Publisher: Journal of Pediatric Nursing
  Published Date: 2013