Between 1977 and 1981 the author visited over 100 places providing short-term care for children who are mentally handicapped and interviewed families whose children were receiving short-term care. This book describes the development of short-term residential care, who makes use of it, parents' reactions to and opinions of the services, ...
This discussion paper reports a study of the ways in which short-term residential care services for mentally handicapped children are being developed by different agencies and in different parts of England. The idea behind such provision is to provide families with a break from a child who may be causing ...
This paper looks at how people with learning difficulties are considered when they experience the death of somebody who has been close to them. Because society continues to have stereotyped ideas about people with learning difficulties, when they grieve, they may not be shown the consideration due to them. This ...