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Learning Disability : a Social approach.
The detailed study of learning disability features rarely in university courses. To a large extent this reflects the low value attributed by our society and its human services to people with learning difficulties. This unusual book, based on one of those rare courses, includes contributions from aca...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Learning Disability
- A Social Approach; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword and acknowledgements; Introduction: David Race; Part I: Voicesof people; 1. Attempts at a social approach to a degree course: DavidRace; Part II: The context of learning disability services; 2. The historical context: David Race; 3. Residential and day services for adults: Paul Williams; 4. Education services: why segregated special schools must close:Joe Whittaker and John Kenworthy; 5. Employment: an opportunity to belong?: Sarah Rooney; 6. Management and change: Dvid Race.
- 7. Evaluation of quality in learning disability services: Errol CocksPart III: Working with people; 8. Friendships, relationships and issues of sexuality: lain Carson and Daniel Docherty; 9. Social inclusion and people with profound and multiple disabilities: Sarah Rooney; 10. Advocacy and parents with learning difficulties: even when you've got an advocate Social Services still always do what's easiest for them: Kathy Boxall, Michaela Jones and Shaun Smith; Part IV: Academia and learning disability
- two debates; 11. The 'Normalisation' debate
- time to move on: Dvid Race.
- 12. Individual and social models of disability and the experiences of people with learning difficulties: Kathy Boxall13. Conclusion
- a personal reflection on values, learning disability and a social approach: Dvid Race; Index.