Community Inclusion

Este texto es un análisis de la manera en la que la industria de los videojuegos está cambiando al desarrollar su propia economía, así como las ventajas y desventajas que se están presentando, y tiene como objetivo generar conciencia de cómo encaminar las nuevas tecnologías hacía un futuro justo para todos.

Background: Dedifferentiation refers to the trend of positioning people with intellectual disabilities together with other disabled individuals for political purposes, to act as a counter to differentiated approaches. This article explores the influence of dedifferentiation in professional support settings through the lived experiences of people with intellectual disabilities and their staff. Methods: Ethnographic research, including participant observation and interviews, conducted with an intellectual disability social care provider and an independent community café, both based in an area of England. Results: Tensions exist between dedifferentiation aims and the lived experiences of people with intellectual disabilities, who often struggled to achieve in areas including independent community inclusion and paid employment. Conclusion: Dedifferentiation has disadvantages for people with intellectual disabilities. It can underestimate and mask needs that people experience in relation to their disabilities. Policy and professional support might be improved by (1) recognising these limits and (2) incorporating people's real-world needs into support provision.

A spatial analytic methodology incorporating true locations is demonstrated using Monte Carlo simulations as a comple-ment to current psychometric and quality of life indices for measuring community inclusion. Moran 'sl,a measure of spatial autocorrelation, is used to determine spatial dependencies in housing patterns for multiple variables, including family/friends involvement in future planning, home size, and earned income. Simulations revealed no significant spa-tial autocorrelation, which is a socially desirable result for housing locations for people with disabilities. Assessing the absence of clustering provides a promising methodology for measuring community inclusion.

The short chapter appears in an easy-to-read book which explores key topics of relevance to enabling decent lives for and with people with disabilities. Without imagination, people become stuck. People start to believe the messages from others that lead to a place of separation and a disability life. With a positive vision as the cornerstone, people have been able to craft lives of joy, purpose, fulfilment and relationships.