Changing Policy and Practice for People with Learning Disabilities (Cassell Education) - Hardcover

Mittler, Peter; Sinason, Valerie

 
9780304333981: Changing Policy and Practice for People with Learning Disabilities (Cassell Education)

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This text gives an account of the fight to achieve basic human and civil rights for people with learning disabilities. It records a series of campaigns and lobbies designed to persuade governments to improve the quality of service and provision for people with learning difficulties. In addition, the book provides overviews of how practice has changed in various fields of service provision - education, residential and day services. The book contains two comparative chapters on Europe and North America, and there is a final section which is concerned with the theme of changing public attitudes.

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9780304333998: Changing Policy and Practice for People With Learning Disabilities (Social Science)

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ISBN 10:  0304333999 ISBN 13:  9780304333998
Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1996
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