Tina Cook

This paper offers a brief overview of the background to implementing a policy of offering Annual Health Checks (AHCs) to all people with a learning disability/difficulty in the UK. It outlines what has been developed through national policy and then offers an insight into the experiences of four people with learning difficulties in relation to understanding and accessing AHCs. All four people are members of The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company (ITC) a company that aims to lay solid foundations for people with learning disabilities to participate fully in their own society, shaping their own environment and controlling their own futures.

This article considers some of the issues raised by an evaluation of facilitated person-centred planning (PCP) for six people with severe and complex learning disabilities residing in a long-stay hospital. The hospital is earmarked for closure, and all six are to be resettled. Using a realist approach, evaluators explored such questions as whether the views of people with severe learning

This article focuses on an evaluation of the pilot implementation of the UK 'Early Excellence'programme, designed to improve Early Years services and achieve national impact. As with other 'New Labour'programmes, the evaluation approach was based on addressing the ...

Our gratitude goes firstly to all the service users, unpaid carers, family members, staff at Walkergate Park Regional Neuro-rehabilitation and Neuro-Psychiatry services and people from the voluntary sector who took part in this study. The commitment and enthusiasm that ...

This paper offers a brief overview of the background to implementing a policy of offering Annual Health Checks (AHCs) to all people with a learning disability/difficulty  in the UK.  It outlines what has been developed through national policy and then offers an insight into the experiences of four people with learning difficulties in relation to understanding and accessing AHCs.  All four people are members of The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company (ITC) a company that aims to lay solid foundations for people with learning disabilities to participate fully in their own society, shaping their own environment and controlling their own futures.
Authors:
Tina Cook: Northumbria University.
Laura Baxendale, Claire, Hill-Wilson, Debbie Bell, Matthew Dennis, Andrew McLeod and Graeme Thompson:  The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company.

This article details how an action research/reflective practitioner approach added value to the efforts of participants who were engaged in developing their practice and working together within a New Labour area-based policy initiative. The process of reflecting and learning together in the project supported practitioners in thinking, learning about, designing, engaging in and changing elements of their practice according to the evidence they had gathered. A key element of the article is how the notion of reflection ‘in’ action and ‘on’ action (Schön) supported people from different backgrounds and settings in understanding and developing their practice through improving self-knowledge and confidence and, in turn, their knowledge of other perspectives. The article raises issues in relation to the use of action research at the interface between micro- and macro-development, individual and group work, and worker and manager perspectives. It concludes by suggesting some of the issues that those engaged in further development of innovative, interagency and interdisciplinary projects might need to address if an action research/reflective practice model of working together for change is to be made more widely available, relevant and useful.

... at one of the early descriptions of the action research process, Lewin's research spiral (McNiff, 1992, p. 22) and the Kemmis & McTaggart sequence (Hopkins ... You need to get into that machine, that mechanical way of process in order to answer the questions ....Where am I up to? ...

... TINA COOK & JOHN SWAIN, University of Northumbria, UK ... Mixing with children that don't need special needs, mixing with the community that he's sort of grown up in and the children that are going to be around him, probably work with him, live near him and everything, getting ...

Abstract Romantown local education authority (LEA), like other authorities in England and Wales, is adopting a policy of 'inclusion' in providing education for young disabled people alongside non-disabled peers. Ostensibly, at least, this is a process of radical change towards ...

... 0966976042000182343 Tina Cook * a pages 3-16. ... Un projet local est décrit, le Pilote Projet de Pratique Inclusive (IPP), conçu pour développer des services plus inclusives pour les enfants plus petits et les enfants qui utilisent dehors des clubs d'activités dehors de l'école. ...

... and development of a project, or whether, by being so similar in design, it constricted ... experience and interpretations of that experience but at the same time be responsive to external ... Choosing a collaborative action research approach as the basis of the evaluation was a way of ...

This article draws on the experience of three research projects where photography was used with children as a data collection method and presentation tool. It was used as a way of trying to enhance opportunities for adults to hear about topics from the perspective of children. The projects were not designed to investigate the use of cameras as a research

Purpose – Historically, people with learning disabilities have been the subjects of research, rather than true participants or contributors. Common approaches used to inform people with learning disabilities about research include simplifying information sheets and reading out the information. Literature to date suggests that little is known about what people with learning disabilities understand about research. This paper aims to

Strand: Evaluation Research, Methods and Practices
Chair:  Prof. dr. Tineke Abma, VU University Medical Centre
Panel members:
Dr Tina Cook, Northumbria University
Professor Dr Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois
Saskia Duijs, MSc, VU University Medical Centre
Barbara Groot, Msc, VU University Medical Centre