Lapszám: 2024/1

Sándor Anikó; Cserti-Szauer Csilla : Editorial Preface

Our current issue focuses on one of the most relevant concepts in Disability Studies. Independent Living has been the focus of researchers in the field for decades. By sharing their theoretical and empirical findings, as well as their own life experiences, our authors contribute to the mapping of current trends in Independent Living.
DOI: 10.31287/FT.hu.2024.1.1

Otieno Michael Ochieng; Sándor Anikó; Perlusz Andrea : Exploring the general trends in disability research: concepts and methods

Disability Studies constitute a matrix of theories, pedagogies, and practices. Over the years, Disability Studies have undergone a series of adjustments in terms of definition, research output, methods, concepts, and theories. How disability is conceptualized not only differs across countries but also within a country with evolving legal, political, and social discourses. In this article,... Read more
DOI: 10.31287/FT.en.2024.1.2

Gregosits Boglárka, Kalász Veronika : ‘I am myself!’ – Personal Assistance Relationships – Results of a Qualitative Study

This study examined the relationship between people with disabilities and their personal assistants. Personal assistance (hereafter referred to as PA) changes the prejudice towards people with disabilities. Through the support of personal assistants, they become employers and can live a self-determined life. In Hungary, this service is not state funded, the employers finance the service... Read more
DOI: 10.31287/FT.hu.2024.1.4

Bányai Borbála, Légmán Anna : School experiences through the narratives of adults with disabilities

In Hungary, Act LXXIX of 1993 on Public Education provided the opportunity to start integrated pre-school and school education for children with disabilities, and the widespread dissemination of this was supported by Act XXVI of 1998 on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ensuring their Equal Opportunities. The process of integration is determined not... Read more
DOI: 10.31287/FT.hu.2024.1.5

Pechan Eszter, Gereben Ferencné, Bánfalvy Csaba : The importance of listening to tales in special needs children’s homes for children with intellectual disability

In our study, we aim to present the initial steps of a story-telling programme carried out with children with intellectual disability in a specific Hungarian children’s home, in order to provide an insight into the operation/run/everyday life of special care/needs children’s homes, as well as to offer an alternative way to other institutes with a... Read more
DOI: 10.31287/FT.en.2024.1.6

Jenei Klára, Cziráki Zsolt, Schreiber Denis, Hütter-Songailo Maria, Molnár-Gábor István, Nagy Mariann, Kos Nevenka, Tóth Éva : Seminar on Validator Training and Validation for Understanding

On the 8th and 9th of March, the Csongrád County Association for the Protection of the Interests of People with Intellectual Disabilities and the Bethesda Humanitarian Organisation held the last two training days of the course Self-training of service providers. In this article, foreign and Hungarian speakers and participants of the training share their thoughts... Read more
DOI: 10.31287/FT.hu.2024.1.8