New voices in Iceland young adults with disabilities in Iceland: The importance of relationships and natural supports

Dóra S. Bjarnason

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New voices in Iceland young adults with disabilities in Iceland: The importance of relationships and natural supports

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Dóra S. Bjarnason

Icelandic University of Education, GB

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Associate Professor, A sociologist, educated in the UK

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This paper deals with young adults’ perspectives and experiences of growing up with a variety of impairments in Iceland, and how they impact the young disabled adults’ approach to the status of adulthood. The paper is based on a qualitative study that explored perspectives and experiences of 36 young disabled adults (16–24 years old), their parents, friends and teachers. The purpose of this paper is to share themes related to the way that choices made by and for disabled children and young persons, place them within different support systems and social network, which subsequent impact the young people's views of themselves and their prospects as young adults. The paper includes different perspectives on adulthood and the extent to which the young disabled people expect to reach that status or remain as “eternal youth” “for a long time”, enmeshed in segregated services. Findings show that the type, nature and mix of generic and segregated special services is critical for the young adults’ approaching adulthood in mainstream society or expecting to remain (for a long time) in the limbo of “eternal youth” within segregated settings. Earlier choices may, however, be revisited at each subsequent transition point. Further, the disabled young adults who struggled for social inclusion, could obtain full active membership in society, even against social and physical barriers and medically defined disability labels.

How to Cite: Bjarnason, D.S., (2009). New voices in Iceland young adults with disabilities in Iceland: The importance of relationships and natural supports. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 4(2), pp.156–189. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/15017410209510790

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[CIT0017] Bjarnason , D.S. (2002). . New Voices in Iceland. Parents and Adult Children: Juggling Supports and Choices in Time and Space. . Disability and Society , 17((3)): : 307.–.

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[CIT0019] Bogdan , R.C and Biklen , S.N. (1992). . Qualitative Research for Education. An Introduction to Theory and Methods. , 2 edition , [city: Boston]: : Allyn and Bacon. .

[CIT0020] Clegg , S. (1999). . Professional Education, Reflective Practices and Feminism. . International Journal of Inclusive Education , 3: : 167.–.

[CIT0021] Corker , M. (1999). . Difference, Conflations and Foundations: The Limits to “Accurate” Theoretical Representation of Disabled People's Experience?. . Disability and Society , 14: : 627.–.

[CIT0022] Danforth , S. (1997). . On what basis Hope? Modern Progress and Postmodern Possibilities. . Journal of Mental Retardation , 35: : 93.–.

[CIT0023] Danforth , S. (1999). . Pragmatism and the Scientific Validation of Professional Practices in American Special Education. . Disability and Society , 14: : 733.–.

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[CIT0047] Kirkebæk , B. (2002). . Det Onde og de Gode: Om Forholdet mellem Paternalisme og Ligegyldighed. (in press). Sætersdal, B and Heggen, K. I den beste hensikt? “Ondskap” i behandlingssamfundet. , [city: Oslo]: : Akribe forlag. .

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[CIT0058] Margeirsdóttir , M. (1976). . Könnun á fjölda vangefinna og skiftingu þeirra eftir landshlutum [A report on the number of intellectually handicapped and their division between the different parts of Iceland]. , [city: Iceland]: : A report for the Minister of Health and Social Insurance. .

[CIT0059] Marks (1999). . . Dimensions of Oppression: Theorising the Embodied subject. . Disability and Society , 15: : 235.–.

[CIT0060] Mead , G.H. (1934). . Mind, Self, and Society. , [city: Chicago]: : University of Chicago Press. .

[CIT0061] Miles , M. (1992). . Concepts of Mental Retardation in Pakistan: Towards Cross‐cultural and Historical Perspectives. . Disability, Handicap, and Society , 7: : 235.–.

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[CIT0064] Oliver , M. (1990). . The politics of Disablement. , [city: Basingstoke]: : Macmillan. .

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[CIT0068] Priestley , M. , Corker , M. and Watson , N. (1995). . Unfinished Business: Disabled Children and Disability Identity. . Disability Studies Quarterly , 19: : 90.–.

[CIT0069] Punch , K.F. (1998). . Introduction to Social Research: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. , [city: London]: : Sage Publications. .

[CIT0070] Reglugerðir um framhaldsskóla 1996 og 1998 (). . “(Statutory regulations on Upper‐Secondary schools 1996 and 1998). ”. [city: Reykjavik]: : Ministry of Education. .

[CIT0071] Schlegel , A. (1998). . The Social Criteria of Adulthood. . Human Development , 41: : 323.–.

[CIT0072] Schutz , A. (1972). . The Phenomenology of the Social World. , [city: London]: : Heinemann Educational. .

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[CIT0074] Sheldon , A. (1999). . Personal and Perplexing: Feminist Disability Politics evaluated. . Disability and Society , 2: : 93.–.

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New voices in Iceland young adults with disabilities in Iceland: The importance of relationships and natural supports

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Dóra S. Bjarnason

Icelandic University of Education, GB

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