Social Care and Neurodisability: Volume 2 Issue 3

A change of direction: a social worker beginning work in the field of acquired brain injury

Helen Stewart

The purpose of this paper is to explore an Australian social worker's experiences of beginning work in the field of neurodisability in the voluntary sector in the UK.

Your life, your choice

Andrew Gardner

With the introduction of the personalisation agenda (Department of Health, 2008) within social care (and health), this paper aims to discursively explore two themes: improving the…

A look into accessible public transportation for people in Toronto who have acquired brain injuries

Nadia Elsayed

This paper aims to explore the transportation needs of adults in Toronto who have acquired brain injuries (ABIs).

Services that promote continuity of care: key findings from an evaluation of the national service framework for long‐term neurological conditions

Kate Gridley, Fiona Aspinal, Sylvia Bernard, Gillian Parker

This paper seeks to report key findings of a study, whose purpose was to: understand what helps or hinders the commissioning and provision of integrated services for people with…

“Lost and altered consciousness” – a headache for many

Paul Sandford, Ed Cooper, Jim Shepherd

This is the second instalment of a two‐part paper that aims to consider the assessment criteria for incapacity benefit (IB) and employment and support allowance (ESA) and to…

The force of due regard: the disability equality duty and policy‐making in a time of cuts

Ben Silverstone

This paper seeks to discuss the case‐law stemming from the disability equality duty under section 49A of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, now reformulated as one part of…

Editorial

Andy Mantell, Patti Simonson

A Relational Approach to Rehabilitation: Thinking about Relationships after Brain Injury

Forum

Dr Keith G. Jenkins

The Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Neurology: Epilepsy

The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Brightest People Can’t Read and How They Can Learn