New voices in women's health: Perceptions of women with intellectual and developmental disabilities;Nouvelles voix quant à la santé des femmes: Perceptions de femmes ayant une déficience intellectuelle et une incapacité du développement

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 337-347

  Brown, Allison A ^a   Gill, Carol J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b Department of Disability and Human Development ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; CHILD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREJUDICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 74249107689     PISSN: 19349556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1934-9556-47.5.337     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Bogdan, R., & Taylor, S. J. (1982). Inside out: The social meaning of mental retardation. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
2. Bollard, M. (2003). Going to the doctor's: The findings from a focus group with people with learning disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7, 156-164.
3. Brown, A. A., & Gill, C. J. (2002). Women with developmental disabilities: Health and aging. Current Women's Health Reports, 2, 219-225.
4. Cambridge, P., & McCarthy, M. (2001). User focus groups and best value in services for people with learning disabilities. Health and Social Care in the Community, 9, 476-489.
5. Canrinus, M., & Lunsky, Y. (2003). Successful aging of women with intellectual disabilities: The Toronto experience. Journal on Developmental Disabilities, 10, 73-78.
6. Edgerton, R. B. (1967). The cloak of competence: Stigma in the lives of the mentally retarded. Berkeley: University of California Press.
7. Fraser, M., & Fraser, A. (2001). are people with learning disabilities able to contribute to focus groups on health promotion? Journal of Advanced Nursing, 33, 225-233.
8. Gill, C. J., & Brown, A. A. (2001). Overview of health issues of older women with intellectual disabilities. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, 18, 23-36. Concurrently published in Hammel, J., & Nochajski, S. M. (Eds.). (2000). Aging and developmental disability: Current research programming and practice implications. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.
9. Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Chicago: Aldine Publishing. Health Resource Center for Women With Disabilities. (2001). Learning to act in partnership: Women with disabilities talk to health professionals [Video]. Chicago: Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
10. Heaton, C., Roberts, B. S., Murphy, L., Meagher, M., & Randall, R. (1994). Let's talk about health: What every woman should know [Video]. The Arc of NJ Women's Health Project. North Brunswick: The Arc of New Jersey.
11. Kirschner, K. L., Gill, C. J, Reis, J. P., & Welner, S. (1998). Health issues for women with disabilities. In J. DeLisa & B. Gans (Eds.), Rehabilitation medicine: Principles and practice (3rd ed., pp.1695-1716). Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven.
12. LeRoy, B. W., Walsh, P. N., Kulik, N., & Rooney, M. (2004). Retreat and resilience: Life experiences of older women with intellectual disabilities. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 109, 429-441.
13. Lunsky, Y., Straiko, A., & Armstrong, S. (2003). Women be healthy: Evaluation of a women's health curriculum for women with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 16, 247-253.
14. Martin, D. M., Roy, A., Wells, M. B., & Lewis, J. (1997). Health gain through screening users' and carers' perspectives of health care: Developing primary health care services for people with an intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual and Development Disability, 22, 241-249.
15. McCarthy, M. (1998). Whose body is it anyway? Pressures and control for women with learning disabilities. Disability and Society, 13, 557-574.
16. McCarthy, M. (2002). Going through the menopause: Perceptions and experiences of women with intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 27, 281-295.
17. McCarthy, M., & Millard, L. (2003). Discussing the menopause with women with learning disabilities. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31, 9-17.
18. Sank, C., & Lafleche, E. (1981). Special sisters: Health issues for mentally retarded women. Off Our Backs, 11(5), 26-27.
19. Scientific Software Development GmbH. (1991-2005). ATLAS.ti. (v.4.1) [Software]. Berlin: Author.
20. Simpson, K. M.,&Lankasky, K. (2001). Table manners and beyond: The gynecological exam for women with developmental disabilities and other functional limitations. Retrieved March 1, 2006, from http://www.bhawd.org/sitefiles/TblMrs/cover.html
21. Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
22. Tighe, C. A. (2001). "Working at Disability": A qualitative study of the meaning of health and disability for women with physical impairments. Disability and Society, 16, 511-529.
23. U.S. Public Health Service. (2002). Closing the gap: A national blueprint for improving the health of individuals with mental retardation. Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Health Disparities and Mental Retardation, Washington, DC. Available online at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/closingthegap/index.htm
24. Walsh, P. N., & Heller, T. (2002). Health of women with developmental disabilities. London: Blackwell.
25. Walsh, P. N., Heller, T., Schupf, N., van Schrojenstein Lantman-de Valk, H., & Working Group. (2000). Healthy ageing-Adults with intellectual disabilities: Women's health issues. Geneva: World Health Organization.
26. Walsh, P. N., & LeRoy, B. (2004). Women with disabilities aging well-A global view. Baltimore: Brookes.
27. Wyoming Institute for Disabilities. (2004). Women First: Breast health for women with developmental disabilities handbook. Retrieved August 20, 2007, from http://www.uwyo.edu/wind/breasthealth/handbook.pdf