An extension of the capability approach: Towards a theory of dis-capability

Bellanca, Nicolò; Biggeri, Mario; Marchetta, Francesca

doi:10.1016/j.alter.2011.05.001

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“…The concept of capability was developed by Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen as an alternative to utility for the measurement of human well-being [2][3][4]. According to Sen, an individual's wellbeing should be primarily gleaned from the real opportunities an individual has for being and doing the things he has reason to value [5,6].…”

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Capability of deaf children with a cochlear implant

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Disability and Rehabilitation

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Introduction:The main idea underlying this paper is that impairments such as deafness are particularly relevant to the extent that they lead to deprivation of capability. Likewise, the impact of healthcare services such as cochlear implants and subsequent rehabilitation can best be inferred from the extent that they protect or restore capability of those affected. Methods: To explore children's post-implant capabilities, we tested two newly developed digital, adaptive child self-report and parent-report questionnaires in 19 deaf children (aged 8-12 years) and their parents during rehabilitation, as well as in 23 age peers with normal hearing. Results: Despite the impressive speech-language results that were recorded with cochlear implants, the post-implant capabilities of the deaf children we evaluated differed from those of their hearing peers, with the cochlear implant group appearing particularly disadvantaged in areas such as accessing information, communication, social participation, and participation in school. Conclusion: Deaf children with cochlear implants who are performing well on linguistic and auditory tests can still experience serious limitations in desired functioning. Our findings suggest that a capability approach may reveal aspects of what is being achieved through rehabilitation that might otherwise remain unnoticed, and that could help to further improve the well-being of our patients. ä IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONOverall, children with cochlear implants appeared disadvantaged in certain capability areas, like accessing information, communication, social participation, and participation in school. It may be worthwhile to also ascertain capabilities in these children, representing a domain not covered by clinical measures, tapping directly into areas that are valuable to the patient.

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Capability of deaf children with a cochlear implant

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“…child's health) (and then Foster and Handy 2008). As the childeven at early age -is already capable of influencing his/her proximate world, the choice made by caregivers are not independent of his/her agency 7 .Thus a child's developmental process is influenced by the interaction between the agency of a child and that of caregivers (Bellanca, Biggeri and Marchetta, 2011). This perspective allows us to examine capabilities and achieved functionings of the child in relation to those of his/her caregivers, and see how these capabilities and functionings could enhance each other.…”

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“…Team agency describes the circumstance where agency is expressed by a group (e.g. the child and her caregiver) and where the actions made by the actors are interdependent to such an extent that every contribution is essential for reaching the overall result(Bellanca et al 2011) …”

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A Capability Approach to Child Growth

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For decades, child growth monitoring has been performed by measuring anthropometric indicators and comparing them against universal standards. Since the 1970s various efforts have been made to expand the focus from anthropometric indicators and include broader contextual and structural factors that influence children's growth. However, those efforts have so far not led to changes in the dimensions that are taken into account in child growth monitoring. In this paper we introduce the Capability Approach as an evaluative framework for growth monitoring of children under five years old. Applying the CA helps focusing on opportunities that are available to children to choose from in order to achieve healthy growth. By doing so, it helps analyzing their available resources (endowments), as well as the mechanisms that could enhance or restrict their access to those resources (conversion factors). In addition, children's growth could be assessed alongside the caregivers' capabilities that children rely on to achieve their full growth potential. We present a child growth evaluation framework as well as an analytical matrix, which has different categories of dimensions that interact with each other and ultimately shape children's growth. The framework is a flexible tool, and is thus broad enough to accommodate contextual differences.

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“…Es importante señalar que a partir de la concepción del enfoque de capacidades abordado en los textos revisados, se encuentra una relación estrecha con la salud pública desde su perspectiva de conjunto de acciones individuales y colectivas, públicas y privadas para hacer posible el bienestar y el bien vivir humano (25). En este sentido, se observa a las personas con discapacidad a partir de sus determinantes sociales, calidad de vida, estilos de vida y, en general, el bienestar que se pretende para lograr una sociedad más justa con participación social (39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49).…”

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“…De forma contraria, autores como Bellanca entienden que dentro del enfoque de derechos las personas con discapacidad son seres con capacidades limitadas respecto a sus objetivos, ambiciones y sistemas de valores (41). Al respecto, es importante precisar que esta postura es una tesis minoritaria en relación con los demás textos rastreados en esta revisión.…”

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La discapacidad desde los enfoques de derechos y capacidades y su relación con la salud pública

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El objetivo es analizar los estudios realizados sobre las personas con discapacidad, desde los enfoques de derechos y capacidades, teniendo en cuenta aspectos de interés de la salud pública como las desigualdades, la justicia social, los determinantes sociales y el bienestar de los colectivos. Se realizó una revisión narrativa de literatura nacional e internacional sobre la discapacidad, a partir de los enfoques de derechos y capacidades. Las búsquedas se llevaron a cabo con palabras claves en español, inglés y portugués. El rastreo de la información arrojó como resultados un total de 32 documentos, sobre los enfoques se encontraron 16 textos referidos a derechos y discapacidad, 11 artículos relacionados con capacidad y discapacidad y 5 artículos que abordan ambos enfoques. Se puede concluir que los enfoques de derechos y capacidades presentan una relación dicotómica y no lineal; incluso respecto a la discapacidad se complementan entre ellos desde diferentes esferas

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An extension of the capability approach: Towards a theory of dis-capability

Cited by 21 publications

References 25 publications

Capability of deaf children with a cochlear implant

Capability of deaf children with a cochlear implant

A Capability Approach to Child Growth

La discapacidad desde los enfoques de derechos y capacidades y su relación con la salud pública

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