Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct Families and children with disabilities Coping strategies and empowerment
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct We are...? From practice to theory to practice Families move and change Parents and professionals Family systems framework Challenges and Empowerment Working for Change From Marginalization to Inclusion
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct Deffinitions of Kompetence Com= med og petere= at stræbe samen med (andre) Compete = konkurrere at stræbe samen efter samme udelelige gode Competence= overenstemmelse mellem en stillet opgave og evnerne hos den person, der er sat til at löse opgaven. Kompetence er modbegreb til Kvalifikation Kvalifikation innebærer at udföre en veldefineret opgave paa en veldefineret maade Kompetence innebærer mere ubestemmelige disposition hos en person, der sætter ham eller hende I stand til at löse en opgave, der netop ikke er veldefineret, hverken som maal eller som fremgangsmaade, ja som maaske slet ikke har foreligget för. (B. Karpatschof Psyke & Logos 1998, 19. pp )
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct From practice to theory to practice From the Medical model to the Social model of Disability
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct Families move and change Different needs different challenges and coping mechanisms Birth child Teenage Leave home grandchild Senior Citizents Death of husband of wife Courtship-Marriage Aging parents To be acknowledged To participare To include --Work--
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct Parents and professionals Unequal power relationships? Parents: Professionals: as clients as experts as paraprofessionals as transplanters as consumers as service providors as depowered as empowering as negotiators as negotiators
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct Family systems framework Partnership = an agreement and a degree of choice Supports = Doing what it takes Continual Coping = to minimise (public) discomfort Empowerment =increasing control ower ones life and taking action to get what one wants
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct Challenges and Empowerment It is not just individual challenge a family challenge a special educators challenge
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct Working for Change schools systems communities
Dóra Bjarnason DPU 2.Oct From Marginalization to Inclusion