This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towards deinstitutionalization as they have been experienced by people with intellectual disabilities: living inside total institutions, moving out, living in the community and moving on to new forms of both institutionalization and community life. Many of the chapters are contributions from people with intellectual disabilities. They are based on a life history approach and give a unique personal account of the lived experiences of institutional...
This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towar...
'This book provides a fascinating vignette of the personal experiences of People with Learning Disabilities for the better (or worse) part of the last century. What makes the book so interesting is actually meeting some of those involved and seeing their stories in print. It flags up what has been achieved so far, and what still needs to be done.' - Oral History 'The editors of this book, written by a range of authors form the UK and overseas, set out to provide the reader with an understanding of the ways in which people with learning disabilities direct their lives through advocacy. Its...
'This book provides a fascinating vignette of the personal experiences of People with Learning Disabilities for the better (or worse) part of the last...
'I recommend this book to anyone engaged in working collaboratively with people with the label 'learning difficulty', particularly in women's; groups, self advocacy or rights bases/citizenship concerns. The plain English accounts are accessible, but I also found the main bulk of the text easily translatable and used it extensively in my recent research. For the women involved in this project it provided a framework of reference in which they recognized similar life events and experiences. Not only does this book fill this gap by providing a frame in which women can examine this exclusion, it...
'I recommend this book to anyone engaged in working collaboratively with people with the label 'learning difficulty', particularly in women's; groups,...
The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and the systems and services they encounter
Presents a unique, pan-disciplinary overview of this growing field of study
Offers a human rights approach to disability and family life
Informed by the newly adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)
Provides comprehensive research-based knowledge from leading figures in the field of intellectual disability
The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and th...
The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and the systems and services they encounter
Presents a unique, pan-disciplinary overview of this growing field of study
Offers a human rights approach to disability and family life
Informed by the newly adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006)
Provides comprehensive research-based knowledge from leading figures in the field of intellectual disability
The first international, cross-disciplinary book to explore and understand the lives of parents with intellectual disabilities, their children, and th...
