Inclusion or transformation? An early assessment of an empowerment project for disabled people in occupied Palestine

Burton, Guy; Sayrafi, Imad

doi:10.1080/09687599.2013.802223

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“…Some traditional attitudes view disability as being the result of sins and mistakes committed by a family member in a previous life or as a punishment from God (Hasnain et al, 2008). Therefore, some parents prefer to hide their disabled children from society or avoid seeking care and governmental services due to fear of humiliation, stigma and disgrace, leading to unnecessary suffering in children and their families (Burton, Sayrafi, & Srour, 2013). Few efforts have been made by Muslim societies to improve this situation on a national level, and most approaches for challenging the stigma of disability were originally developed and adapted for Western developed communities (WHO, 2011).…”

Section: Islam and Sociocultural Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Caring for these children has become a national responsibility, as they have been depicted as strugglers and have attained a martyrdom status. However, Burton et al (2013) emphasised that reducing social stigma will require much more effort by the PA, because martyrdom disabilities will not put an end to the social discrimination of people with other disabilities.…”

Section: Islam and Sociocultural Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to the UNICEF (2016) report, the protracted political conflict and cultural stigma in Palestine were identified as major obstacles to promoting the rights of CWDs. Further, Burton et al (2013) argued that protecting children from violence and changing social attitudes towards disability are urgently needed in Palestine.…”

Section: Disability In the Palestinian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Palestinian children's narratives about living with spina bifida: Stigma, vulnerability, and social exclusion

Nahal

Axelsson

Imam

et al. 2018

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The overall aim in this thesis was to describe the lived experiences of children with spina bifida (SB) and their mothers while living under specific social and cultural conditions in West Bank, Palestine. A further aim was to gain knowledge about the impact of SB on self-perceived health and sense of coherence (SOC) among a group of children and adolescents with SB in comparison to their healthy peers.

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Section: Islam and Sociocultural Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Islam and Sociocultural Attitudesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Disability In the Palestinian Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Palestinian children's narratives about living with spina bifida: Stigma, vulnerability, and social exclusion

Nahal

Axelsson

Imam

et al. 2018

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“…While 'shifting frontiers and boundaries' were considered during 2011, in 2013 'global conflicts and crises' were explored. These special issues investigate the experience of people with disability during times of disaster and conflict in the context of the invisibility and vulnerability of people with disability (Miles 2013;Mirza 2011;Rohwerder 2013), the experience of refugees and those seeking to cross borders (Kim 2011;Mirza 2011;Soldatic 2013;Straimer 2011) and, finally, the importance of advocacy and increasing the voice of disabled people (Aldersey 2013;Arenas Conejo 2011;Burton, Sayrafi, and Srour 2013;Loja, Costa, and Menezes 2011;Munsaka and Charnley 2013;Wehbi 2011). However, the topic of the Internet and social media and their role in disaster communications is not addressed.…”

Section: Disability In a Disastermentioning

confidence: 97%

People with disability and new disaster communications: access and the social media mash-up

Kent

Ellis

2015

Disability & Society

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This article explores how a lack of access to increasingly complex and overlapping digital communications platforms in times of disaster for people with disabilities has the potential to make already life-threatening situations considerably more dangerous. As we are increasingly coming to rely on a social media mash-up of digital platforms to assist in communications during disaster situations, the issue of accessibility for people with disabilities is as dire as if it was high ground during a tsunami or transport during a typhoon. The contemporary social media environment is characterised by a complex and overlapping network of complementary platforms, populated by user-generated content, where people communicate and exchange ideas. In this environment, YouTube videos are posted to Facebook and embedded in blogs, and Twitter is used to link to these other sites and is itself embedded in other platforms. These networks are increasingly supplementing and supplanting more traditional communication platforms, such as the television and radio, particularly in times of disaster. The concern of this paper is that the elements from which this mash-up of communications channels is made are not always accessible to people with disabilities. This evolving network of social media-based communication exposes the limits of existing Internet-based universal design.

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“…Leigh Hill [43] examined the level of physical accessibility for students with disabling conditions in universities across Canada, while Klinger [44] examined the evidence of the physical accessibility of schools for students with mobility impairments and provided an overview of the barriers and facilitators. Burton et al [45] presented findings from a project that examined the environmental, and institutional barriers faced by disabled people. Martin Ginis et al [46] made a review of published studies of factors related to leisure-time physical activity among people with physical disabilities.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Environmental Adaptation of Construction Barriers under Intuitionistic Fuzzy Theory

Rogulj

Pamuković

2021

Teh. glas. (Online)

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The project of construction barriers removal is a comprehensive planning task and it demands a suitable support for identification, and priority ranking of facilities necessary for barriers removal. This paper proposes a multicirteria Intuitionistic Fuzzy (IF) ELECTRE model to support decision makers in the process of managing of removal project of construction barriers for physically disabled in high schools. IF ELECTRE approach is used to deal with complex problems, where decision-makers have ambiguities and dualities in evaluation of considered solution. Hereby 17 high schools are defined and seven criteria are determined by decision-makers. These criteria are further used for the alternatives assessments. Each DM is also evaluated by linguistic and numerical values, assigning them this way an importance according to their background and the years of experience. The Intuitionistic Fuzzy Weighted Average (IFWA) operator is calculated to achieve aggregated alternatives evaluations. Furthermore, concordance and discordance sets and indexes are calculated to obtain dominance matrix and final ranking of schools for the construction barriers removal. The model is validated on high schools in the city of Split. Using IF theory, the given problematic can be operated more effectively by diminishing the inaccuracy of available information.

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Inclusion or transformation? An early assessment of an empowerment project for disabled people in occupied Palestine

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Palestinian children's narratives about living with spina bifida: Stigma, vulnerability, and social exclusion

Palestinian children's narratives about living with spina bifida: Stigma, vulnerability, and social exclusion

People with disability and new disaster communications: access and the social media mash-up

Environmental Adaptation of Construction Barriers under Intuitionistic Fuzzy Theory

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