35 research outputs found
Mellow Futures. Scottish Pilot Evaluation
Evaluation of the Mellow Futures pilot parenting programme for mothers with learning difficultie
Mellow Futures – an adapted parenting programme for mothers with learning difficulties in England and Scotland. Professionals’ views on the outcomes
Experiencing motherhood and fatherhood with learning difficulties in Austria::The need for self-determined support
Power in research relationships:engaging mothers with learning difficulties in a parenting programme evaluation
Understanding disabling barriers:a fruitful partnership between Disability Studies and social practices?
Disabled people are regularly denied their human rights, since policies and laws are hard to translate literally into practice. This article aims to make connections between social practice theories and Disability Studies, in order to understand the problems faced by disabled people, using different methods to look in detail at how practices are shaped and how disabled people get excluded. Disabled people are active agents in making change, both informally on an everyday basis and through formal actions. Thus we also suggest that the insights of disabled people could bring a fresh perspective to social practice theories, by troubling the taken-for-granted in our everyday lives