Public Address | Cafe | Access: One in Four – NZ Disability Survey

Sacha

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:06:06 +1200

You might be interested in this post about govt secrecy on welfare policy evaluations.

Marc C

Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:35:30 +1200

This new survey appears to be more inclusive than earlier ones, but it is probably fair and reliable enough, to say that at least one in five – to one in four – New Zealanders has a disability. These include many conditions and impairments suffered due to that, and there…

Hilary Stace

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:49:50 +1200

Another angle on the law. Donald Beasley Institute (Dunedin) study underway on developing a legal system responsive to people with learning disability

Sacha

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:47:13 +1200

Thank you. I love how the article emphasises what disabled people bring to the table for any profession.

Lisa Black

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:34:46 +1200

NZ Lawyer has picked up on these stats too and is noting the lack of representation in the legal community.

Sacha

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:44:53 +1200

Writing about that experience would help others realise they're not alone, when you're ready. Maybe write stuff now and publish when it feels right.

Hebe

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:23:42 +1200

I’m barely containing my fury at the situation

That’s what it is like for many people. And you can’t un-realise.

Rrrrrr. That’s the response my whole family has had. Not that we’re trouble-makers in any way. Oh no ;-)

Sacha

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:03:15 +1200

I’m barely containing my fury at the situation

That's what it is like for many people. And you can't un-realise.

Sacha

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:59:47 +1200

comprehensive in-the-community wraparound services provided to very elderly family members

compared with education for disabled children where only one in a hundred of them would qualify (and they'd have to pretend to be as badly-off as possible and plead their case in triplicate). #grrr

Hebe

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:53:57 +1200

Imagine if the system was about serving needs rather than rationing access. It distorts the experience so much, and it wastefully affects the self-belief of disabled people and our families.

The rationing of access is exactly the problem: it's so wrong, and discriminatory. It's gob-smacking for me as newcomer to…

Sacha

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:00:03 +1200

Thanks. Please do write more. We welcome guest posts.

Imagine if the system was about serving needs rather than rationing access. It distorts the experience so much, and it wastefully affects the self-belief of disabled people and our families.

Interestingly it's the industry organisation representing the audiologists that keeps making…

Hebe

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:15:21 +1200

Re the hearing-disabled numbers, I expect this number will rocket in a few years due to revised definitions and wider provision of Auditory Processing Disorder testing, which is at present uneven, discriminatory and with practically zero funding.

APD is estimated in a report out this year to affect as many…

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:35:47 +1200

Apparently they moved a couple of the detailed questions from the Agility to the Mobility category. Doesn't seem to have made much difference to the numbers.

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:34:17 +1200

the majority of us have more than one impairment! It has substantial implications for service provision

And for research, which often insists on mono-impaired participants and therefore misses a whole lot.

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:33:13 +1200

Thank you. Interesting trend.

WaterDragon

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:23:59 +1200

Thanks Sacha.
There's been an interesting swerve to the overall%. For the first two post census surveys, the overall percentage was 20%. Then for reasons not well understood even to Stats NZ (who almost stood on their heads trying to explain it, though nobody in the end could do so…

David Hood

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:18:14 +1200

that was a typo on my part, it should have been under 15 (so 0-14) (table 4.02)

My point wasn't that it was rising, it was that the visual category is rising faster than the population is aging. If you take the age bands (0-14,15-44, 45-64, 65+) and compare the…

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:33:30 +1200

Impaired sight increases with age. However, as a proportion of all disabled people, it's much the same as in previous survey rounds. Can I ask where you found figures in 5-year age bands?

David Hood

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:23:34 +1200

I note the internal proportions sight has grown- and that is due to the raw numbers for all but under 5 increasing quite dramatically compared to the population increase in the period.

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:13:16 +1200

I'd like to get hold of the main Census answers, which should shed more light on autism. And the way StatsNZ differentiates impaired thinking is seriously problematic.

Hilary Stace

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:32:15 +1200

I would like to know the individual questions, too. Autism is still mainly in the big 'other' category, which isn't very helpful but there might be something more to come. But what is really interesting is the estimate of 2% of the population with intellectual disability (as they classify it).…

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:22:37 +1200

Good idea. That’s what Stats NZ call it, but they have made some changes this time within those categories. I really need to dig up the detailed questions.

Brent Jackson

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:19:34 +1200

To avoid confusion with impaired mobility, you may wish to talk about impaired dexterity rather than impaired agility.

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:41:57 +1200

I am told that the next set of results is scheduled for release in July.

Public Address

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:41:57 +1200

Discussion from blog post.