Visibility, Contact and Market-Competence: Keys to the Inclusion of People With Intellectual Disabilities in the Lebanese Workplace

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Merhej
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Parental Overprotection ◽  
The Past ◽  
Low Expectations ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Future Work

Background: People with intellectual disabilities (ID) experience high unemployment due to external (stigma, parental overprotection and low expectations) and internal (learned helplessness) barriers. Although Lebanon was a pioneer among Arab countries in its legislative and social activism toward inclusion of disabled people, stigma persists and a benevolence model of disability still prevails. Aims: This article aims at identifying the needs of people with ID, and proposing directions for future work toward their inclusion in the Lebanese workplace, based on identified needs. Methodology: A literature search for articles on ID in Lebanon and national and regional reports on employment of people with ID over the past two decades was performed, excluding all documentation using unclear definitions of ID or focusing on mental illness. Findings: Analysis of the literature highlighted the need for more familiarity and contact with, for more visibility of, and more market-competent training for people with ID in Lebanon. Conclusions and implications: Prejudice and faulty conceptions of ID can be reduced by increasing visibility of people with ID through increased everyday life contact opportunities. Change is urged at the level of organisational sheltered training to provide a more market-competent training for ensuring proper job placement of people with ID in mainstream labour.

Making ‘care’ accessible: Personal assistance for disabled people and the politics of language

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 562-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Personal Assistance ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Politics Of Language ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Disability scholars and activists argue that ‘care’ is a complex form of oppression and reject it as a term and concept. I explore the possibility of salvaging care from its oppressive medical and charitable legacies through a discussion of personal assistance. While not arguing for a return to terming personal assistance ‘care’, I argue care can be made accessible in policies and discussions of attendant services and in more general discussions related to care. Like the built environment, care requires ‘retrofitting’ as in updating existing structures to fully include disability perspectives. This requires redefining care as a complex tension. Accessibility also evokes the sense of ‘at hand’; keeping care at hand in policy discussions allows us to consider transformative feminist conceptualizations of care and captures intricate relationships between attendants and disabled people, including people with intellectual disabilities. Most importantly, accessible versions of care always acknowledge the oppressive legacies and coercive potentials of care.

PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY COMPARED TO OTHER TYPES OF DISABILITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 571 (10) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Zakrzewska-Manterys
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Public Support ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Different Types ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Disability is a wide concept, encompassing different types of disability, different capabilities of people with disabilities and different social support needs. People with intellectual disabilities belong to a specific group. They do not fit into the mainstream of support and activation measures for disabled people. Although they are a small group (about 1%), they require care which is not provided within the current social policy towards people with disabilities. The article provides examples of public activities unfavourable and favourable for the well-being of people with intellectual disabilities. This could be a starting point for a preparation of a policy project of accurate public support for this group of people

Services Available from Providers in the Disability Field to Older Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Laurie Buys
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

As most older adults with intellectual disabilities reside in community based accommodation, the availability of support programs and services becomes important to the maintenance of independent living. Thirty nine community based organisations in Brisbane, Australia that assist people with intellectual disabilities were surveyed regarding the types of programs offered to older adults with intellectual disabilities. The results showed that 75% of the organisations had provided assistance to an older adult with an intellectual disability in the past 12 months. However, none of the agencies surveyed reported that they provided specialised programs or services to older adults with intellectual disabilities.

scholarly journals A Case Study: Investigating the Past, Present, and Future of Shanghainese Teenagers with Intellectual Disabilities from the Perspective of Societal Adaptation in the “Dream Café”

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuqian Lyu
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Video Editing ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Societal Adaptation

 This investigation aims to shine a light on the employment problem of people with intellectual disabilities, starting from a special perspective. This study focuses on a unique place, the Dream Café that gives jobs to teens with intellectual disabilities, including Down Syndrome and Autism. My approach to is to reveal this topic through the personal story of Hao, the main character featured in my documentary short. Both this paper and that documentary began as a Video Journalism project. The video was produced in stages – from raw concept, development and planning in the pre-production” stage, to shooting footage and recording interviews during “production”, and the scripting and video editing phase known as “post-production”.

scholarly journals Heritage for All – A Contribution to the Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Archaeology: A Polish Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-156
Author(s):  
Kornelia Kajda ◽  
Tomasz Michalik ◽  
Dawid Kobiałka
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Cognitive Problems

This paper discusses the results of project entitled Heritage for all: Perception of the past and archaeo- logical heritage by people with intellectual disabili- ties, which the authors carried out on a group of 14 young individuals who were diagnosed with intel- lectual disabilities. The project aimed to detect how the past is perceived and conceptualized by students with learning and cognitive problems and how we, archaeologists and museum workers, can transfer knowledge about the past to them in a more ap- propriate way. This paper also provides a context for a need for inclusive archaeology as a way of practising archaeology as a discipline of social and cultural value for present-day people. Despite the limited number of people approached during the research and the specific character of education for people with intellectual disabilities in Poland, some conclusions can be drawn. First of all, participants in the project understood the past not as abstract, historical events, but rather as actions related to their personal experiences. Secondly, they remem- bered more about the past when it was shown and explained to them in an active, participatory way.

scholarly journals Austria

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-7
Author(s):  
Germain Weber
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Past ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Policy Agendas

In the past two decades, national as well as regional policy agendas for people with disabilities and especially people with intellectual disabilities have followed strategies of inclusion and rights, with the promotion of a community-based approach.

scholarly journals Power, Ideology and Structure: The Legacy of Normalization for Intellectual Disability

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray K. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structural Correspondence ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

Since its first formulation in English, the ‘principle of normalization’ has had a profound impact on policy and practice in the field of intellectual disability. Over the past fifty years, normalization, and Social Role Valorization, have drawn on liberal humanist philosophy, adopting varied and complex positions in relation to it. This article will consider an apparent structural correspondence between a discourse of ‘liberal equality’ with versions of normalization that emphasised conformity to social norms, and those drawing primarily on ‘liberal autonomy’, emphasising independence and self-determination of people with intellectual disabilities. Despite this seeming correspondence, the article eschews a structuralist account in favour of a discursive and rhizomatic model, in which the philosophical elements are seen as tactical forces deployed in the pursuit of wider strategic ends. The article concludes by highlighting paradoxes in contemporary thinking that can be traced to the legacy of normalization, specifically, the tensions between sameness, difference, equality and independence.

scholarly journals Beyond the Feeble Mind: Foregrounding the Personhood of Inmates with Significant Intellectual Disabilities in the Era of Institutionalization

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Allen ◽  
Erin Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Low Grade ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
State School ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
Training School ◽  
Disability Rights Movement ◽  
The Past

This essay explores the experiences of persons with significant intellectual disabilities at the Vermont State School for Feebleminded Children (later Brandon Training School) in the period 1915-1960.  We discuss the limits of existing histories of intellectual disability in accounting for the distinct experiences of significantly intellectually disabled people. This essay works to correct the tendency to define the nominal intellectual disability of "morons" and "borderline" cases—both in the past and in disability historiography of the past—against the abject, embodied difference of the "low-grade idiot" or "imbecile."  The history we offer has implications for the present-day disability rights movement.

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