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Providing and ordinary family life
- Author:
- PIERCE Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 16.11.89, 1989, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Wandsworth Social Services Department's Family Living Scheme places adults with learning difficulties into ordinary family homes.
The road to enlightenment
- Author:
- JACKSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 2.11.89, 1989, p.24.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The propagation of a distorted gospel of normalisation leads to the devaluation of people with a mental handicap.
That 'special' divide
- Author:
- STENNER Eve
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 12.10.89, 1989, p.24.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reviews the legal framework of the 1981 Education Act on integration in schools.
Whose terms?
- Authors:
- BOOTH Tim, SIMONS Ken
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.10.89, 1989, pp.19-22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers the debate of the usage of mental handicap/learning disability, and how people with learning difficulties/mental handicap perceive themselves and how they would like others to see them.
The Myrtle Cottage project: testing resettlement groupings
- Authors:
- CARPENTER P.K, AXSON D.M.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 17(3), September 1989, pp.94-96.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
A flat within hospital grounds was used to experiment with groupings of patients in planning discharge for them.
Groupwork with people who have mental handicaps - an approach marred by scepticism?
- Author:
- COLE A.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 17(3), September 1989, pp.115-118.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Aims and techniques.
The gentle way to work with mental handicap
- Author:
- BRANDON D.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 17.8.89, 1989, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Looks at the 'gentle teaching' system for the mentally handicapped in use in Canada.
PREVIEW : the way to ensure care needs are met
- Author:
- WALLACE E.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 6.7.89, 1989, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Describes a preventive, forward-looking method of life-long individual planning for mentally handicapped people.
Eligible but excluded
- Author:
- COLE A.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.4.89, 1989, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The local government elections in May 1989 are likely to exclude many people with learning difficulties because they don't have enough information to vote.
With a little help from my friends: a report on advocacy development: 1
- Author:
- CROSSLEY Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 17(1), March 1989, pp.23-24.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
This article describes an advocacy service carried out in a day centre.