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 in the minds of characters and readers is a project exploring the potential of fiction featuring characters with dementia to improve awareness of and empathy towards people living with the condition.
• Evaluating arts-based programmes for people with dementia, and their impact on wellbeing is a discussion paper by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd.
• A teaching dataset has been created based on the 2014 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey module on dementia. This is designed to be used on undergraduate and postgraduate courses teaching quantitative statistical analysis in the social sciences.
• Public attitudes and knowledge of dementia: Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland and Scotland (Discussion paper) by Paula Devine is based on 2014 survey data.
• Dementia: look closer (Research Update 104) by Elizabeth Byrne McCullough and Paula Devine is based on data from the Dementia module within the 2014 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Children's and young people's awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards autism in Northern Ireland (Research Update 97), by Karola Dillenburger, Lynne McKerr and Julie-Ann Jordan
• Autism Spectrum Disorder: Public awareness and attitudes (Research Update 84) by Karola Dillenburger, Julie-Ann Jordan and Lyn McKerr uses data from the 2012 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
• Dementia: public knowledge and attitudes (Research Update 77) by Maria McManus and Paula Devine is based on data from the Dementia module within the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. This was accompanied by a seminar - see the video recording here.
• 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.
• 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 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 Disability Unit works across the UK government to ensure equality becomes a reality for disabled people.

Maintained by Paula Devine