These three workshops held in the Autumn of 1979 aimed to bring together all those involved in teaching staff who work with mentally handicapped people in residential settings, whether in the health service, local authority services or in voluntary organisations. The main purpose was to enable these staff to share ...
This pamphlet gives an account of a meeting whose aim was an exchange of information between those with experience of care attendant schemes and those with experience of the needs of those with learning difficulties and their families.
This study day aimed to help parents of mentally handicapped children to look ahead to the position of their children as they reached adulthood and to become better informed about their rights and about the services available to them. Five workshops were held dealing with different aspects: employment and further ...
A residential workshop was held at the King's Fund College in Bayswater to explore the issues arising when children with learning difficulties cannot be cared for by their own parents. This book provides a summary of the workshop discussions and the major issues raised, as well as the invited papers ...
This conference presented a broad outline of the Portage system of providing educational and developmental aid to pre-schoolchildren who have learning difficulties. The teaching process, the involvement of parents, planning the curriculum and running the scheme were some of the issues discussed.
The conference addressed the problem of how to move towards a better quality of residential services for adults with learning difficulties. Ways of measuring the quality of life were discussed, including a `checklist of needs' to be used when assessing a residential service. From visits to 100 places where people ...
This is the record of a workshop on services for mentally handicapped children, organised jointly, in March 1976, by King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, Association of Professions for the Mentally Handicapped and Institute of Mental Subnormality.
Parents and professionals have a common objective, in the pursuit of which each brings differing skills and activities; their joint aim is to aid the development children with learning difficulties, and to enable that child to lead as good a quality of life as possible. the primary task falls to ...
One fundamental aim of education is to help people to develop their own potential within a changing society. This aim applies to people with learning difficulties, just as to anyone else. But although the aim may be the same, the opportunities are different. There is ample evidence that people with ...
This account of ways and means of improving coordination of services for children and young people with learning difficulties is written especially for members and senior managers of the various authorities - health and welfare, statutory and voluntary - concerned with helping and caring for these people. It is essentially ...