Sally French
Biographic Data
| ID | 4273558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sally French |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sally |
| FAMILY NAME | French |
| SIGNATURE | FRENCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3026-1979 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disabled People and Employment
Telling stories for a politics of hope
This paper is about listening to voices from an excluded past. The oral history of disabled people challenges accepted, formal history, the history from dominant voices well established in unequal power relations. The paper draws on an oral history project conducted with over 60 visually impaired people who gave detailed accounts, telling stories of their experiences of education. This oral history research was carried out through the medium of t…
Disabling barriers--enabling environments
Voices from Segregated Schooling
This paper considers the notion of ‘inclusion’ in the provision of education for young disabled people in a climate of closing specialist schools. Uniquely, it analyses the judgements of disabled adults on their education and the views and experiences of pupils from a specialist school. Cook argues that understanding experiences of segregation is crucial to the construction of education policies that are truly inclusive. The paper highlights the …
Towards an Affirmation Model of Disability
In this paper we argue that a new model of disability is emerging within the literature by disabled people and within disability culture, expressed most clearly by the Disability Arts Movement. For the purposes of discussion we call it the affirmative model. It is essentially a non-tragic view of disability and impairment which encompasses positive social identities, both individual and collective, for disabled people grounded in the benefits of …
Visually Impaired Physiotherapists
This paper traces the development of physiotherapy as a career for visually impaired people from the end of the 19th century until the present day; It is an aspect of the author's on-going PhD research into the employment situation of visually impaired physiotherapists. Visually impaired physiotherapy students were initially integrated with their sighted peers, but from 1915 their training was taken over by the Royal National Institute for the Bl…
Simulation Exercises in Disability Awareness Training
This paper takes a critical look at simulation exercises. Little evidence exists that these exercises have a positive effect on either attitudes or behaviour but, despite this, they are used extensively in disability awareness training, both for children and adults. It is argued in this paper that by individualising and medicalising disability, and by focusing excessively on problems and difficulties, simulation exercises provide false and mislea…
Experiences of disabled health and caring professionals
The widespread discrimination against disabled people in most types of employment is well known. It would seem likely, therefore, that disabled people would find it difficult to gain access to the health and caring professions, although many people have argued that their personal experience of disability would be an invaluable asset to the professions and patients alike. By means of semi-structured interviews this study aimed to gain insight into…
Towards an Affirmation Model of Disability
In this paper we argue that a new model of disability is emerging within the literature by disabled people and within disability culture, expressed most clearly by the Disability Arts Movement. For the purposes of discussion we call it the affirmative model. It is essentially a non-tragic view of disability and impairment which encompasses positive social identities, both individual and collective, for disabled people grounded in the benefits of …
Telling stories for a politics of hope
This paper is about listening to voices from an excluded past. The oral history of disabled people challenges accepted, formal history, the history from dominant voices well established in unequal power relations. The paper draws on an oral history project conducted with over 60 visually impaired people who gave detailed accounts, telling stories of their experiences of education. This oral history research was carried out through the medium of t…
Voices from Segregated Schooling
This paper considers the notion of ‘inclusion’ in the provision of education for young disabled people in a climate of closing specialist schools. Uniquely, it analyses the judgements of disabled adults on their education and the views and experiences of pupils from a specialist school. Cook argues that understanding experiences of segregation is crucial to the construction of education policies that are truly inclusive. The paper highlights the …
Experiences of disabled health and caring professionals
The widespread discrimination against disabled people in most types of employment is well known. It would seem likely, therefore, that disabled people would find it difficult to gain access to the health and caring professions, although many people have argued that their personal experience of disability would be an invaluable asset to the professions and patients alike. By means of semi-structured interviews this study aimed to gain insight into…
Experiences of disabled health and caring professionals
The widespread discrimination against disabled people in most types of employment is well known. It would seem likely, therefore, that disabled people would find it difficult to gain access to the health and caring professions, although many people have argued that their personal experience of disability would be an invaluable asset to the professions and patients alike. By means of semi-structured interviews this study aimed to gain insight into…
Simulation Exercises in Disability Awareness Training
This paper takes a critical look at simulation exercises. Little evidence exists that these exercises have a positive effect on either attitudes or behaviour but, despite this, they are used extensively in disability awareness training, both for children and adults. It is argued in this paper that by individualising and medicalising disability, and by focusing excessively on problems and difficulties, simulation exercises provide false and mislea…
Visually Impaired Physiotherapists
This paper traces the development of physiotherapy as a career for visually impaired people from the end of the 19th century until the present day; It is an aspect of the author's on-going PhD research into the employment situation of visually impaired physiotherapists. Visually impaired physiotherapy students were initially integrated with their sighted peers, but from 1915 their training was taken over by the Royal National Institute for the Bl…
Towards an Affirmation Model of Disability
In this paper we argue that a new model of disability is emerging within the literature by disabled people and within disability culture, expressed most clearly by the Disability Arts Movement. For the purposes of discussion we call it the affirmative model. It is essentially a non-tragic view of disability and impairment which encompasses positive social identities, both individual and collective, for disabled people grounded in the benefits of …
Voices from Segregated Schooling
This paper considers the notion of ‘inclusion’ in the provision of education for young disabled people in a climate of closing specialist schools. Uniquely, it analyses the judgements of disabled adults on their education and the views and experiences of pupils from a specialist school. Cook argues that understanding experiences of segregation is crucial to the construction of education policies that are truly inclusive. The paper highlights the …
Disabling barriers--enabling environments
Telling stories for a politics of hope
This paper is about listening to voices from an excluded past. The oral history of disabled people challenges accepted, formal history, the history from dominant voices well established in unequal power relations. The paper draws on an oral history project conducted with over 60 visually impaired people who gave detailed accounts, telling stories of their experiences of education. This oral history research was carried out through the medium of t…
Disabled People and Employment
Psychology (6 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Disabled people (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works) · Disability Education and Employment (2 works)