Disability and Children in Difficult Circumstances
UCL Global Disability Research Group
The UCL Global Disability Research Group focuses on disability research in the areas of global health and international development. It is comprised of faculty members and students from the Centre for International Health and Development and the Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre.
A list of projects are listed below - click on the "Read More" link for more details. To view our publications regarding childhood and disability, please click here
Low cost screening for children with disabilities (partner: Disability Studies Unit, University of Kelaniya)
Work has been taking place in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, and Nigeria
Perceptions of participation and inclusion: views of adolescents with disabilities
There is little understanding of the perceptions of adolescents with disabilities about the barriers to and facilitators of participation and inclusion they face in their daily lives.
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Asia Pacific Certificate Course: Community Initiatives in Inclusion (partner: Spastics Society of India)
This course explores ways in which services for children with disabilities can be integrated into community activities.
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Health consequences of internal migration in Zhejiang Province, Eastern China (Partner: Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Centre for Disease Control)
This project aims to explore living and working conditions, health status, and healthcare access in Chinese rural-to-urban migrants, and to compare these with permanent rural and urban residents.
Reproductive health education for migrant workers in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang Province, China (partner: Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Bureau of Public Health)
This project aims to determine the effectiveness of a peer-education approach to health education for migrant workers in Hangzhou City.
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An exploration of motivations and risk behaviours of young injecting drug users in Wa State, Myanmar and Yunnan Province, China (partner: Yunnan Bureau of Public Health)
This project aims to identify risk factors for the uptake of injecting drug use in order to inform recommendations for preventive strategies.
Evaluation of the impact of a community-based intervention to improve the treatment of people with epilepsy in Kilifi and Muranga Districts, Kenya (partner: Wellcome Trust Kilifi and KEMRI)
This study aims to implement an intervention that is integrated within a community health care delivery context and has community involvement in the planning and implementation processes.
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The effectiveness of a low-tech approach to the management of feeding difficulties in children with Cerebral Palsy in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (partner: Shishu (Children¹s) Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
The aims of this study were to design a training programme for caregivers of children with Cerebral Palsy living in a low income environment, where alternative feeding options, such as gastrostomy-tube feeding, are not available.
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'Giving young people who use AAC a voice’: An ethnographic study of identity in young people with severe physical and communication impairments (partner: Department of Anthropology, University of Sheffield)
This UK-based study aims to use qualitative methods such as participant observation in schools and homes, and extended interviews to gain the participants’ perceptions of themselves and their lives.
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Mumbai parents’ perceptions of disability (partner: Unmed Child Development Centre, Mumbai, India)
A small project looked at parents’ perceptions and experiences, using qualitative methods such as narrative interviews and participant observation.
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Cash transfer for support of orphans (partner: Government of Kenya)
In association with the Department of Social Services, Government of Kenya, we are evaluating the outcome of community based cash transfer in rural areas of Kenya with a high orphanhood rate.
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Effects of pesticide exposure on working children (partner: University of Nayarit, Mexico)
Working in collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), the Mexican National Programme for the Attention of Migrant Agricultural Workers (PRONJAG) and the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) we are developing research to measure the physiological and neurological effects of occupational exposure to children.
