Självbestämmanderätt och inflytande : En studie om hur representanter från handikappföreningar, goda män och LSS handläggare diskuterar människor med funktionsnedsättnings rättigheter

This essay has a purpose to understand and investigate how disabled people, where the handicap imply difficulty to speak for one self, get the rights of self-determination and influence satisfied. Our purpose with this essay is to focus on how representatives from organizations, trustees and Support and Service for Persons with Certain functional Impairments- officials (abbreviated LSS after the Swedish title of the Act lag om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade), describe and discuss matters concerning the individuals’ opinions and requests from within their respective position. We will with this as a base analyze how these three parties facilitate and meet the individuals’ influence and self-determination. Through six qualitative interviews with these three parts we have gathered the foundation for our study. We have analyzed our material through role theory and power-perspective. We have also been using three thesis that studies disabled peoples influence and self-determination when in contact with personnel and public authorities. Our result shows that representatives from organizations, trustees and LSS-officials are sensitive to the individuals’ requests and opinions. This is nevertheless experienced as complicated and is dependent on what respective roles these hold. The contact between these parts is also flourished by different power-relations. We argue that the individuals’ self-determination and influence is not as natural as the law states. The individuals’ rights are determined by many different aspects. Keywords: disabled people, self-determination, influence, representatives from organizations, trustees, LSS-officials