Hi Steven,

Perhaps my doctoral dissertation could be of help to you: An Exploratory Study About Women with Physical Disabilities: Survey of Their Views on Personal Assistance Services (PAS), Sexuality Education, and Sexual Expression Registration ProQuest-CSA, LLC 11/08/2007 TX 6-618-131. University libraries may also be able to gain access to dissertations - I had graduated from The George Washington University, Washington DC, 2007.

Please keep in mind if you need to discuss or need clarification do not hesitate to contact me.

Lots of good luck,

Marlene

Dr. Marlene Chait

Chait& Associates

Philadelphia, PA 19152

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From: "Steven Graby" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:33:46 AM
Subject: Literature about employment of personal assistants

Can anyone point me to some studies of disabled people's employment of
personal assistants (in the UK or elsewhere)? Particularly anything
from a research point of view which focuses on problematic aspects of
the employer/employee relationship (such as bureaucratic barriers or
unhelpful polarisations between the interests of disabled people and
PAs as workers) would be really useful, but i'd also be very
interested in published narratives by disabled people who employ PAs
which detail why being able to employ PAs directly is seen as
essential for their liberation.

(This is not that I need convincing of the arguments, more that I need
references to back up said arguments...)

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