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‘I don't know what you're trying to establish’: The Housing and Urban ‘Problems’ of Visually Impaired Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2004

Chris Allen  and
Joanne Milner
Chris Allen
Affiliation:
Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University E-mail: c.allen@shu.ac.uk
Joanne Milner
Affiliation:
Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF), University of Salford
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Abstract

This paper uses the social model of disability to examine visually impaired children's experiences of their housing and neighbourhoods and finds that they did not experience any significant problems with the design of them. The source of their problems was within these environments, and was caused by factors such as the intensity of movement, for example, from flows of traffic. We conclude by discussing the social policy implications of these findings.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 1 - 10
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© Cambridge University Press 2003

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