Social Role Valorization for People With Autism Needs

Social role valorization (SRV) is a social theory that examines and helps us to understand the process of social devaluation – how do people come to be at the bottom of the social ladder, and what are the predictable “bad things” likely to come their way once they lose value within the society? These “bad things” have been descriptively called the “wounds” of social devaluation and are inflicted on devalued people relentlessly, systematically and often unconsciously. They include such experiences as being profoundly rejected, being thrust into negatives roles such as “eternal child” or “menace” or “object of pity,” being stigmatized by the attachment of devastating imagery, being distanced and segregated from society, and many other hurtful and damaging experiences. Because this process of wounding is at odds with the professed social and religious values of our society, there is very low awareness and consciousness about it, and it is often even perpetrated by human services intended to help people.

• Strengths

1. Personal help such as the family and carers help people with ASD with hygiene, dress, social skills and a host of other aspects of image and competency enhancement.

2. Consciousness raising. For example, voluntary groups hold discussions and organize actions that increase their members’ awareness of, commitment to and support for people with ASD. SRV training is a method of consciousness raising.

3. Changes in the social environment. The immediate situation of people with ASD is changed, via culturally valued activities, image-enhancing settings, and competency-enhancing groupings.

4. Changes in practice. People change their behavior, for example by involving people with ASD in their lives and, on a collective level, creating opportunities for constructive personal contact between people with ASD and others.

5. Changes in policy. Organizations, including governments, change their guidelines, planning and policies, for example to integrate people with ASD into standard employment

6. Changes in technology. Through appropriate design, technologies can help to increase competencies and image. For example, automatic garage openers, originally designed for people physically unable to handle garage doors, are now widely used and accepted.

• Weaknesses

1. Safety for people with ASD such as people with ASD require taking a rest but SRV may ignore it for giving people with ASD valued role.

2. SRV does not consistently increase consciousness and warranty concern about socially people with ASD.

3. SRV cannot ultimately restraint the features of their supporter although they are powerful.

4. Client’s hypothetical value can be reversed when operated without adaptability. Not all people who use SRV will do what SRV require like one could distinguish between adaptive adherence and misuses of SRV.

5. Not all relationships between generally people and people with ASD are ethical, productive and advantageous. People may refuse the deeper religious and value traditions in the Western world upon which SRV rests even if they embrace SRV.

• Assessment

It is obliged that evaluating about the individual is being perceived as degenerate in the view of their adversely esteemed contrast. For people with ASD it could contain of utilitarian or physical debilitations, low capacity, a specific ethnic character, certain practices or organizations, skin shade, and others, being declined by society, group and even family as well as administrations. Being put and held at a physical or social, it may cause isolation or having awful pictures and incorporate dialect captivated to them and being the object of ill-use, savagery, and eve being made dead.

• Planning

This model to people with ASD it is critical to evaluate enhancing the perceived estimation of the social parts of an individual or evaluation from past life. There are two significant expansive techniques for arranging this model for depreciated individuals build individuals’ social picture in the perspectives of others, and expand their capacities in the greatest feeling of the term. Pictures change and limit change structure a reaction circle that can be certain or negative. The person who is disabled is a great extent at danger of affliction picture impedance; an individual who has debilitation in picture is legitimate to be offered an explanation by others in techniques that focus or diminishing the individual’s capacity. Nevertheless, techniques work similarly in the opposite way. The person whose social picture is hopeful is legitimate to be given with abilities, reckonings, and other life states which are liable to enhance, or offer degree to, one’s capacities; and a person who clusters capacities is additionally fitting to be imaged certainly.

• Co-ordination

Co-ordination has to be a process that enables an individual to meet their goals. A far reaching bundle of administrations may be obliged to help and these may be from diverse financed sources, group help administrations, private backing. Needs Assessment and Service Coordination Service (NASC) has a characterized plan to work with so administrations may need to help individuals who have the most elevated need.

• Perspectives

Social Role Valorisation Theory is considered with the impacts of social devaluation on the well-being of people that community regards badly, particularly, people with Autism spectrum disorders. The theory concentrates on reversing the impacts of social devaluation on the person with ASD by:

• Increasing their consciousness of their one’s capabilities
• Challenging the one’s and society’s stigmatising faiths and recognitions about themselves
• Giving them with examples of the valued positions they play in society and their ability to work and keep significant relationships with their families and others in the society
• Developing and supporting the people to join in society

Behaviour Support Services uses this theory to work with people with ASD to:

• Extend their self-esteem and confidence
• Extend their recognitions of how they are valued by their families, the supporters, and their areas. The valued role they play in mainstream society
• Extend their understanding of the power of improving and remaining close supportive relationships with their supporters and families. These relationships play a critical role in helping people with ASD to realise their ability and to identified the valued role they work in society.

However, Social role valorization for people with ASD is widely constricted to just narrow human service fields and their working period can be limited as their adherents might use them for participating in a moral issues.

• Summary of expected outcomes

1. Acheive the positive advantages of taking supportive employment such as having the economic which means to join in mainstream of society.

2. Make partnerships or working associations among people with ASD, community and familiy, including employers.

3. Increase their self-esteems and confidence when they feel as a valued person of the society 4. Improve their own identify and awareness of how they are important in the communities.

5. Providing the community with the skills and resources and valued roles that include people with ASD. There are mnay organisation and community for People with ASD to join and enjoy activities or information.

3. Comparison

In terms of theories, Strengths-based model is a collaborative process between the person supported by services and those supporting them, allowing them to work together to determine an outcome that draws on the person’s strengths and assets. However Social Role Valorization (SRV) is a set out of approaches designed to enable devalued people in society to experience the good life. These approached are best used by persons who clearly believe that devaluation of a party is wrong, and who are prepared to work to overcome. Furthermore, strengths-based model more concern itself principally with the quality of the relationship that develops between those providing and being supported, as well as the elements that the person seeking support brings to the process. But SRV’s many strategies, derived from practical experience and from what research has revealed, is to help devalued people achieve valued social role.

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