Bigby Christine, Wiesel Ilan
Living with Disability Research Centre, La Trobe University, Vic, Australia.
City Futures, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil. 2015 Jul;28(4):307-18. doi: 10.1111/jar.12140. Epub 2015 Jan 7.
Promoting community participation for people with intellectual disability through encounter with strangers is an integral part of the mission of disability support workers. This paper offers detailed micro-level analysis of the practices of support workers when they accompany a person with intellectual disability outside their home and explores the subtle differences which make some staff practices more effective than others in promoting more convivial encounters with strangers. Based on 160 h of observations of twenty-six adults with intellectual disability in a variety of public places, and interviews and focus groups with their support workers, the paper points to some of the critical judgements support workers need to make when considering whether, when and how to initiate or intervene in such encounters.
通过与陌生人接触来促进智障人士的社区参与，是残疾支持工作者使命的一个重要组成部分。本文对支持工作者陪伴智障人士外出时的做法进行了详细的微观层面分析，并探讨了一些细微差异，这些差异使得一些工作人员的做法在促进与陌生人更融洽的接触方面比其他做法更有效。基于对26名成年智障人士在各种公共场所进行的160小时观察，以及与他们的支持工作者进行的访谈和焦点小组讨论，本文指出了支持工作者在考虑是否、何时以及如何发起或干预此类接触时需要做出的一些关键判断。
