abstract: 'This article explores both the process and outcomes of a seminar series

  on the concept of access for people with learning difficulties. The

  seminar topics chosen to foster dialogue across professional and

  disciplinary boundaries included access to information, education,

  employment, the law, health, leisure, community, past histories and

  future plans. The seminars brought together people with learning

  difficulties and their support workers, researchers and professionals,

  to examine the expert knowledge of people with learning difficulties in

  negotiating access, the role of practitioners in mediating access and

  the contribution of research to understanding access. The aim was to

  develop a rich, shared understanding of the concept of access for people

  with learning difficulties. However, a huge amount of `access work'' had

  to be done to achieve this. The article discusses that access work and

  proposes a multidimensional model of access and ways of promoting it.'
affiliation: 'Nind, M (Corresponding Author), Univ Southampton, Sch Educ, Southampton,
  Hants, England.

  Nind, Melanie; Seale, Jane, Univ Southampton, Sch Educ, Southampton, Hants, England.'
article-number: PII 910413595
author: Nind, Melanie and Seale, Jane
author-email: m.a.nind@soton.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Nind
  given: Melanie
- family: Seale
  given: Jane
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/09687590902789446
files: []
issn: 0968-7599
journal: DISABILITY \& SOCIETY
keywords: learning difficulties; access; participation; inclusion; barriers
keywords-plus: HEALTH-CARE PROVISION; DISABILITY; INCLUSION; SERVICES; SUPPORT; ADULTS
language: English
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '40'
orcid-numbers: 'Seale, Jane/0000-0002-4279-7463

  Nind, Melanie/0000-0003-4070-7513'
pages: 273-287
papis_id: b26ffecbb4349dcca51468916efd5a27
ref: Nind2009conceptsaccess
times-cited: '39'
title: 'Concepts of access for people with learning difficulties: towards a shared
  understanding'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000265293300002
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '11'
volume: '24'
web-of-science-categories: Rehabilitation; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
year: '2009'