Attitudes towards Disability Resources

Questions on attitudes towards disability were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2003 and 2009.
Questions on knowledge of, and attitudes to, dementia were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2010.
Questions on knowledge of, and attitudes to, autism were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey in 2012.

ARK Resources

• Dementia: public knowledge and attitudes (Research Update 77) by Maria McManus and Paula Devine is based on data from the Dementia modules within the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Public Attitudes towards Disability in Northern Ireland (Research Update 35) by Nick Acheson.
• The Online Research Bank includes a variety of summaries of research related to disability.
• The Children's Database is an online bibliography and quantitative research relating to the lives of children and young people up to the age of 18 (21 for young people with a disability or those leaving care).
• ARK has worked with Deafblind UK on a survey exploring the needs of people with dual sensory loss.
• ARK has also worked with Share Holiday Village on a feasibility survey for the provision of dialysis service.
  

Links

• Disability Action is a Northern Ireland wide, pan disability organisation that works to ensure that people with disabilities attain their full rights as citizens, by supporting inclusion, influencing Government policy and changing attitudes in partnership with disabled people.
• The Disability Unit within the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister is responsible for developing anti discrimination policy on disability and for providing appropriate legislation. The work involves the preparation of policy papers, providing briefing for Ministers and officials and making new, or amended, legislation.
• The mission of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is to combating discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity through advice, promotion and enforcement. Their remit includes disability, and their website includes a section containing links focusing on disability. The site also outlines anti-discrimination law in Northern Ireland.
• The Office of Disability Issues works across the UK government to ensure equality becomes a reality for disabled people.
• The BBC Eyewitness site includes a section on disability in Northern Ireland.

Maintained by Paula Devine