Abstract
Little is known about how people with intellectual disability understand personal safety, or what strategies they call upon when they do not feel safe in their homes. In this participatory research, 20 people with intellectual disability talked about the ways they keep themselves safe in the places where they live, and what helps them or makes it hard for them to stay safe. Interviews with nine disability policy-makers were also conducted to include a systemic perspective about how personal safety is addressed by funded disability support services. A series of factors either support people or make it difficult for them to put their strategies into action, influencing the degree to which they were able to draw upon their own strategies to protect themselves from potential harm.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 99-113 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2 Apr 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
(CC BY 4.0) Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (unless stated otherwise) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright is retained by the author(s)Keywords
- abuse prevention
- harm
- intellectual disability
- personal safety
- user views