Learning Disability and Everyday Life brings into conversation ideas from social theory with thick descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism.This book is markedly ethnographic in...Lasīt vairāk
A powerful examination of changing attitudes towards people with learning disabilities, and a communitys fight for human rights and dignities....Lasīt vairāk
Learning Disability and Everyday Life brings into conversation ideas from social theory with thick descriptions of the everyday life of a middle-aged man with learning disabilities and autism. This book is markedly ethnographic in its orientation...Lasīt vairāk
The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today&;s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtroom...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1994. This book pays tribute to the many parents and professionals who work and live with people who have learning difficulties. Enabling people with learning difficulties to take control may be achieved in a number of ways, ran...Lasīt vairāk
What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a contemporary institution in England. Rebecca Fish takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing o...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1994. This book pays tribute to the many parents and professionals who work and live with people who have learning difficulties. Enabling people with learning difficulties to take control may be achieved in a number of ways, ran...Lasīt vairāk
What is life like for women with learning disabilities detained in a secure unit? This book presents a unique ethnographic study conducted in a contemporary institution in England. Rebecca Fish takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing o...Lasīt vairāk
This book challenges current ideas on what constitutes a `good enough life for people with intellectual disabilities and proposes new ideas on how to make a truly `good life possible. Professor Dorothy Atkinson, Social History of Learning Disabil...Lasīt vairāk
What does it mean to have a good life? Why has it proved so difficult for people with intellectual disabilities to live one? This important book explores these questions, provides an analysis of related policies and underpinning ideologies and l...Lasīt vairāk
Peter Goward, Gordon Grant, Paul Ramcharan, Malcolm Richardson
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jun-2005, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Open University Press, ISBN-13: 9780335218264)
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This book adopts a life cycle approach in order to reveal important dimensions in the lives of people with learning disabilities and the effects upon them and their families. It tackles issues about transitions in peoples lives and how services, pro...Lasīt vairāk
Peter Goward, Gordon Grant, Paul Ramcharan, Malcolm Richardson
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jun-2005, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Open University Press, ISBN-13: 9780335214396)
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Acknowledgements About the Editors List of Contributors Preface Part One: The Construction of Learning Disability Narratives and people with learning disabilities Chapter From vagabonds to Victorian values: the social construction of a disability ide...Lasīt vairāk
This book makes a critical case for advocacy in the lives of people with learning difficulties. This can only be applauded. - Disability & SocietyI found this book to be a thoughtful, interesting and challenging read and I would recommend it to an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Dec-2000, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Open University Press, ISBN-13: 9780335205271)
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This book describes how people with learning difficulties challenge disabling environments, how professionals can support such challenges, and how self-advocacy groups contribute to politics and the study of disability. It examines self-advocacy in...Lasīt vairāk
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A report on a study reflecting the experiences of carers of people with learning disabilities following the implementation of the 1995 Carers Act. The authors consider that people with learning disabilities and their carers may have distinct needs,...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the nature of relationships, this book continues the story of the five people with learning disabilities from Helping People with a Learning Disability Explore Choice. Sections for the carer draw out the issues raised in each chapter and...Lasīt vairāk
The books are short, simply laid out, easy to use with practical advice and exercises. The case studies seem to be taken from real life scenarios. Clients, staff and families would find these books very useful. They put in print the ordinariness o...Lasīt vairāk
