International Perspectives on Disability Services

The Same But Different

Francis K.O. Yuen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136412394
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Anesthesiology & Pain Management

Learn how to include multiculturalism in disability-related social work!

International Perspectives on Disability Services: The Same but Different presents different cultural and societal contexts on services for people with disabilities. This book covers a range of topics on disabilities related to physical status, emotional conditions, and community settings. This useful introductory reference will help you develop culturally sensitive disability services both locally and overseas, and it will promote better understanding of people with disabilities.

This book is a unique examination of services for people with disabilities as they exist in several countries. Until recently, cultural context was used to describe race or ethnicity, but this innovative text recognizes people with disabilities as a worldwide community that is advocating for equality and respect. International Perspectives on Disability Services focuses on the need for human and social services that endorse capability and empowermentpromoting the person rather than the disability.

In International Perspectives on Disability Services, you'll learn about:

• using the term culture to describe the community of people with disabilitieshow cultural sensitivity and competency can be applied to the disability culture
• the dynamics of a transcultural relationship between psychotherapist and deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals
• the recent development in aphasia treatmentLife Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA)and the international perspective of communication therapy
• a comparison of attitudes among social work students in the United States and Japan toward people with disabilitiespeople with disabilities are not yet integrated into Japanese society, but both groups showed room for needed improvement
• a comparison of disability-related services and experiences in the United States and in Germanychild-raising leave, child-raising money, and Kindergeld (child money) helps support parents financially for the first few years, but the United States has more options for integrated schooling later in life
• Hong Kong's 25-year-old objective to encourage community integration and normalization for people with disabilities to live in the community
• the primary support network of family, community leaders, and shaman for people with disabilities among Hmong Americans in Northern California

The informative reports, research findings, case studies, and international comparisons offer new directions for human service professionals and students to help them better meet the social, psychological, and cultural needs of people with disabilities. International Perspectives on Disability Services provides clear-cut evidence that disability-oriented social workers need to improve their perspectives as the disability culture gains momentum as a social entity. This book is a must-read for anyone who works or provides disability-related services, as well as for people with disabilities who need more information on other countries' services.

Index

“Compulsory K-12 Special Education System,” 69

“Disability: Social and Health Issues,” 6

“Refrigerator parents,” 12

“Supported Conversation,” 52–53

“The Hmong Religion,” 124

1981 International Year of Disabled Persons, 72

AAMR. See American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR)

Acquiescence

defined, 17

Ad Hoc Task Force on Social Work Education and Disability, 68

ADAPT, 10–11

Adaptation

described, 18

AFP. See Alpha Feto Protein (APF)

Alpha Feto Protein (AFP), 92

ALS. See Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR), 90

American Sign Language (ASL), 26, 28, 31, 36, 41–42, 43

Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), 10, 13, 16, 20, 68, 89–90

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), 19

Analysis of Variance

in MIDS, 76–77

Aphasia

defined, 48

described, 48

life participation approaches to, 47–64 (See also Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA))

as goal, 58–59

availability of services in, 60

environmental factors in, 60

introduction to, 48–49

life enhancement changes due to, 59–60

measures of success in, 59–60

personal factors in, 60

services for persons with, 59–60

social approaches to

in United States, 54–55

stroke and, 48

treatment of history of, 49–50

Aphasia Center of California, 53

Arthritis

rheumatoid

stigmatization of case example, 17

ASL. See American Sign Language (ASL)

Australia

LPAA implementation in, 58

Autobiography

in LPAA implementation

in England, 57

Bahan, B., 25

Barnes, C., 123

Beck, I., 91

Behavior(s)

human

social environment effects on

in psychotherapy for deaf and hard-of-hearing persons, 41–42

norms of, 17–19

Bell, A.G., 12

Bernstein-Ellis, E., 53

Bettleheim, B., 12

Boles, L., 47, 50, 55, 57, 59

Byng, S., 57

California Welfare and Institutions code, 94

Canada

LPAA implementation in, 52–53

Carter administration, 67

CDPD. See Commission on Disability and Persons with Disabilities (CDPD)

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors
• We Are Different and We Are the Same
• Disability Through the Lens of Culture
• Psychotherapy with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals: Perceptions of the Consumer
• Life Participation Approaches to Aphasia: International Perspectives on Communication Rehabilitation
• An Exploratory Study on Attitudes Toward Persons with Disabilities Among U.S. and Japanese Social Work Students
• Max versus Max: Disability-Related Services in the U.S. and Germany
• Community Integration of Older People with Developmental Disabilities in Hong Kong
• Hmong Americans’ Changing Views and Approaches Towards Disability: Shaman and Other Helpers
• Index