In this study, I develop a transition follow-up system (TFS) — a data-collection system that tracks information about persons with disabilities from high school to adulthood — that is socially valid in Manitoba. I investigate the current data-collection practices regarding persons with disabilities in Manitoba and analyze stakeholders’ needs for a transition follow-up system using document review, surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews. There is currently no formal data-collection system documenting the transition from school to adulthood of persons with disabilities in the province. Stakeholders have acknowledged the need for such a data-collection system in order to improve current support systems. The key suggestions that stakeholders have made with regard to implementing a transition follow-up system are (a) ensuring impartial, reliable data management, (b) minimizing any additional work required for schools and adult services programs/agencies, (c) utilizing existing data collection practices, (d) applying various data collection methods, (e) carrying out longitudinal data collection regarding individuals with disabilities, (f) including persons with various disabilities, from mild to severe, (g) involving various government departments in the transition process, (h) protecting privacy and confidentiality, and i) ensuring user-friendly data collection and reporting. The most significant concern that stakeholders express relates to securing the financial and human capacity to develop and maintain a transition follow-up system. Based on these suggestions and the current Manitoba context, I propose a transition follow-up system model, recommending operative aspects such as scope, purpose, administrators, target youth, information to collect, data collectors, data-collection methods, data sources, timeline of data collection, reporting, confidentiality and privacy, and methods of ensuring the reliability and validity of data. Although the model proposed is relevant to the Manitoba context, it also offers a useful set of general guidelines on critical issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing a transition follow-up system.

In this study, I develop a transition follow-up system (TFS) — a data-collection system that tracks information about persons with disabilities from high school to adulthood — that is socially valid in Manitoba. I investigate the current data-collection practices regarding persons with disabilities in Manitoba and analyze stakeholders’ needs for a transition follow-up system using document review, surveys, focus groups, and individual interviews. There is currently no formal data-collection system documenting the transition from school to adulthood of persons with disabilities in the province. Stakeholders have acknowledged the need for such a data-collection system in order to improve current support systems. The key suggestions that stakeholders have made with regard to implementing a transition follow-up system are (a) ensuring impartial, reliable data management, (b) minimizing any additional work required for schools and adult services programs/agencies, (c) utilizing existing data collection practices, (d) applying various data collection methods, (e) carrying out longitudinal data collection regarding individuals with disabilities, (f) including persons with various disabilities, from mild to severe, (g) involving various government departments in the transition process, (h) protecting privacy and confidentiality, and i) ensuring user-friendly data collection and reporting. The most significant concern that stakeholders express relates to securing the financial and human capacity to develop and maintain a transition follow-up system. Based on these suggestions and the current Manitoba context, I propose a transition follow-up system model, recommending operative aspects such as scope, purpose, administrators, target youth, information to collect, data collectors, data-collection methods, data sources, timeline of data collection, reporting, confidentiality and privacy, and methods of ensuring the reliability and validity of data. Although the model proposed is relevant to the Manitoba context, it also offers a useful set of general guidelines on critical issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing a transition follow-up system.

Approximately one out of every seven Canadians over the age of 15 years (3.4 million people) has some level of disability. The increasing prevalence of disability in our aging society is commonly accepted as fact with both disability and the severity of disability gradually increasing with age (Statistics Canada, 2001). Recognizing that persons with disabilities often face "barriers" to full participation in society, some provinces have enacted human rights or accessibility planning legislation to remove these barriers. This study examines the process of accessibility planning for persons with disabilities within Canadian municipalities with a population of between 50,000 –500,000, otherwise referred to as mid-size cities (MSC). The underlying assumption of this research is that mid-size Canadian municipalities are carrying out some form of accessibility planning using planning instruments [or other tools] to remove barriers and improve accessibility for persons with disabilities. The purpose of this study is to determine: first, what planning instruments are being used in the design of open space and built environments in MSCs to remove physical barriers, and what other tools are available to attain greater accessibility for persons with disabilities living in mid-size urban settings. Secondly, to consider who is involved in the implementation and use of planning instruments and other tools, and to determine what are their respective roles. Third, to discover the conditions under which planning instruments and other tools are being applied, to learn what financial or other resources are being allocated and how are they being allocated in the short and long term. This study concludes that planning instruments are being used to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities in mid-size Canadian municipalities. Planning tools are not the only way to remove barriers to persons with disabilities. Furthermore, the effectiveness of those tools is clearly contingent upon available human and financial resources. Nevertheless, the study finds that municipal planners and others are using these essential planning tools in a variety of ways to remove physical barriers to accessibility. Inherent in all efforts to remove barriers is the active involvement of persons with disabilities. Thus, involving persons with disabilities in the development and application of planning instruments and other tools has the potential to build the foundation of successful accessibility planning efforts in Canadian mid-size communities. These conclusions have implications for research in the area of accessibility planning and recommendations for Canadian planning practice.

Approximately one out of every seven Canadians over the age of 15 years (3.4 million people) has some level of disability. The increasing prevalence of disability in our aging society is commonly accepted as fact with both disability and the severity of disability gradually increasing with age (Statistics Canada, 2001). Recognizing that persons with disabilities often face "barriers" to full participation in society, some provinces have enacted human rights or accessibility planning legislation to remove these barriers. This study examines the process of accessibility planning for persons with disabilities within Canadian municipalities with a population of between 50,000 –500,000, otherwise referred to as mid-size cities (MSC). The underlying assumption of this research is that mid-size Canadian municipalities are carrying out some form of accessibility planning using planning instruments [or other tools] to remove barriers and improve accessibility for persons with disabilities. The purpose of this study is to determine: first, what planning instruments are being used in the design of open space and built environments in MSCs to remove physical barriers, and what other tools are available to attain greater accessibility for persons with disabilities living in mid-size urban settings. Secondly, to consider who is involved in the implementation and use of planning instruments and other tools, and to determine what are their respective roles. Third, to discover the conditions under which planning instruments and other tools are being applied, to learn what financial or other resources are being allocated and how are they being allocated in the short and long term. This study concludes that planning instruments are being used to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities in mid-size Canadian municipalities. Planning tools are not the only way to remove barriers to persons with disabilities. Furthermore, the effectiveness of those tools is clearly contingent upon available human and financial resources. Nevertheless, the study finds that municipal planners and others are using these essential planning tools in a variety of ways to remove physical barriers to accessibility. Inherent in all efforts to remove barriers is the active involvement of persons with disabilities. Thus, involving persons with disabilities in the development and application of planning instruments and other tools has the potential to build the foundation of successful accessibility planning efforts in Canadian mid-size communities. These conclusions have implications for research in the area of accessibility planning and recommendations for Canadian planning practice.

Topic of the thesis is to clarify the aims of living and values of the handicapped people. In the theoretical part the work deals with definitions of the basic terms related to a corporal defect, course and model of crisis as a radical change regarding physical image of human being, it highlights the main crisis starter, thus stress, and emphasizes the factors which have the greatest effect on mental state of the handicapped patient. Also, this work refers to sources of one{\crq}s reason for living, right to life and possibilities of social assistance for the handicapped. The empirical part is focused to find out in what extent the handicapped people experience their life as a meaningful, in what extent they are satisfied with their life and what values they prefer.

Orientador: Waldir José de Quadros / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T08:29:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Garcia_ViniciusGaspar_D.pdf: 2187801 bytes, checksum: f88e25986ee5f1b0bb7988040ec0aac0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Este estudo tem como objetivo contextualizar e avaliar o processo de inclusão das pessoas com deficiência no mercado de trabalho formal no Brasil. Parta tanto, primeiramente realiza um panorama acerca da trajetória das pessoas com deficiência na História, mostrando como foi evoluindo o "significado social" deste contingente populacional, tido anteriormente como "inválido" ou "incapaz". Realiza também uma apresentação sobre as principais legislações nacionais que versam sobre a temática da deficiência, além de estimar, com base nos dados do último Censo Demográfico, a população com deficiência em idade produtiva que estaria apta a fazer jus da chamada "Lei de Cotas". Este instrumento de ação afirmativa é avaliado quanto à sua efetividade, concluindo-se que, para além da legislação, é preciso avançar na inclusão escolar das pessoas com deficiência, melhorar as condições gerais de acessibilidade nos municípios e reafirmar paradigmas que não reforcem mitos e estereótipos associados a estas pessoas. Somente assim poderá avançar o ainda restrito acesso das pessoas com deficiência ao mercado de trabalho formal, no qual estão apenas uma minoria - em torno de 10% - daqueles com diferentes níveis de limitação física, sensorial ou cognitiva / Abstract: This study aims to contextualize and evaluate the process of inclusion of persons with disabilities in the Brazilian formal labor market. Therefore, first an overview of the situation of disabled people throughout history is presented in order to show how the "social significance" of a populational group, taken previously as "invalid" or "incompetent, had changed. Next, the main national laws that deal with disability issues are analyzed. Then, based on data from the last demographic census, it is also estimated the population of the working age population whose disabilities may give them the rights provided by the so-called "Law of Quotas". Evaluating the effectiveness of such instrument of affirmative action, one conclude that, in addition to legislation, it is imperative to strengthen people educational inclusion, to improve general accessibility in the counties and to favor paradigms that do not reinforce stereotypes and myths associated with these people. Thereby one can advance the still limited access of disabled people to formal labor market, in which only a minority - around 10% - of those with different levels of physical, sensory or cognitive impairment are / Doutorado / Economia Social e do Trabalho / Doutor em Desenvolvimento Economico

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Human Resource Management / unrestricted

Achieving the right of access to healthcare for persons with disabilities is a challenge in Eswatini as a result of various barriers, such as availability of services, acceptability in healthcare facilities, financial and geographical accessibility. As a means of facilitating access to healthcare for persons with disabilities, Eswatini ratified the United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and subsequently developed the National Disability Policy Reform documents. The study therefore employed a case study research design utilising multiple data sources to establish the extent to which the National Disability Policy Reforms had addressed access to healthcare for persons with disabilities. The study aimed to establish how the manner in which these reforms were developed and implemented influenced access to healthcare for persons with disabilities in Eswatini. Data Source 1 encompassed a review of the National Disability Policy Reform documents. Data Source 2 included in-depth interviews with key informants (n=7) who were involved in the development and implementation of the National Disability Reform documents. Data Source 3 included focus groups with persons with disabilities (n=5), caregivers of persons with disabilities (n=6) and healthcare professionals (n=7). Additional electronic questionnaires were conducted with healthcare professionals (n=7) as part of Data Source 3. All data were analysed using a framework approach, specifically the Integrated Disability Policy Analysis Framework. Findings of the study indicated that the National Disability Policy Reform documents had adequately addressed the availability of services and acceptability of persons with disabilities within healthcare facilities. The National Disability Policy Reform documents however neglected to consider the significant role of financial and geographical accessibility on influencing access to healthcare. Findings also revealed that while the development of the National Disability Policy Reform documents was a collaborative effort between different stakeholders, the processes of implementation of these documents was not entirely clear. As a result, the promises of the National Disability Policy Reform documents were not translating into actions as persons with disabilities lacked knowledge on the existence of the National Disability Policy Reform documents. Persons with disabilities were also not aware of their rights to healthcare, and they still experienced challenges when they had to access healthcare. A policy brief was developed to communicate the findings of the study to policy makers. Access to healthcare guidelines with pictorial support were developed to conscientise persons with disabilities, caregivers of persons with disabilities and healthcare professionals about the rights to access for persons with disabilities. Keywords: access to healthcare, disability policy, human rights, Integrated Disability Policy Analysis Framework; persons with disabilities; policy analysis / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020, / University of Pretoria, Faculty of Humanities Postgraduate Funding; University of Witwatersrand Transformation Funding / Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) / PhD (AAC) / Restricted

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While persons with disabilities are not a homogenous group, most are likely to be disproportionately impacted by climate change and the “natural” disasters that result from these changes. As a social worker living with chronic health conditions and a particular interest in disability and public policy, I was curious about how Canada’s Federal Government climate change policies and initiatives address persons with disabilities and their diverse needs. My research explored how matters of health and disability have been taken up in recent Canadian Federal Government climate change policies and strategies through an analysis of six significant climate change documents. Framed by a feminist, poststructural-inspired critical disability lens, the documents were examined through an inductive approach to reflexive thematic analysis, with the aim of contributing to critical conversations around the intersections of disability justice, climate justice, and related social justice matters. Through reflexive thematic analysis, I identified three key themes: persons with disabilities are widely absent from Canadian Federal Government climate change documents, both as collaborators as well as groups considered in climate change planning; adaptation to climate change and climate resilience are central in government climate mitigation strategies; and healthy and normative body-minds are presumed by the documents, which broadly assume all people have the same capacities to adapt. Subthemes included both a prioritization of the economy, and a foregrounding of a productive, compulsory, able-bodied and able-minded citizen around which climate change strategies are designed. I conclude with some suggestions for how Canada’s climate change policies may become more inclusive for persons with disabilities. / Graduate