This reader forms part of the Open University course K666 "Mental Handicap - Changing Perspectives". It looks at roles and relationships, recognizing oppression and support in the community.
Part 1 Roles and relationships: "If you love him, let him go", Ann
Richardson; the social environment, Margaret Flynn; do the professionals
understand? - mothers' view of families' service needs, Mary MacLachlan et
al; my own perspective and experience, Louisa Reynolds; helping Bangladesh
families - Tower Hamlets Parent Adviser Scheme, Hilton Davis and Prapti Ali
Choudhury; creating a "working alliance" with people with learning
difficulties, Ann Brechin nad John Swain; "being there" - evaluating life
quality from feelings and daily experience, Julie Wilkinson; research
interviews with people with mental handicaps, Dorothy Atkinson. Part 2
Recognizing oppression: "what's in a name?", Robert Bogdan and Steven
J.Taylor; learning to resist, Beverley Brian et al; a parent's diary,
Anonymous; the new eugenics, Michelle Stanworth; sex and the mentally
handicapped - a lawyer's view, Mike Gunn; barriers to adulthood - long-term
unemployment and mental handicap compared, Richard Jenkins; learned
helplessness theory and people with learning difficulties - the psychological
price of pwerlessness, John Swain. Part 3 Discovering a voice: locked away -
life in an institution, David Barrow; a voice of our own, Diane Amans and
Christine Darbyshire; day services - a user's account, People First; the
world of the congenitally deaf-blind - towards the grounds for achieving
human understanding, David A.Goode; Barry - a study, Valerie Sinason; stigma
and the self-concept of people with a mild mental handicap, Andrew Jahoda et
al. Part 4 Support in the community: caring, Pat Henton; a group
home/landlady scheme, Larrraine Eastwood; Mar M., David Felce and Steven
Toogood; Robert Griffiths, Roger Blunden; ageing in the communit - a matter
of choice, Robert B.Edgerton; for better, for worse?, Linda Ward; community
care - the ideal and the reality, Gillian Dalley. Part 5 OUr common humanity:
a brief outline of the principle of normalization, Wolf Wolfensberger and
Stephen Tullman; setting the record straight - a critique of some frequent
misconceptions of the normalization principle, Burt Perrin and Bengt Nirje;
whose community, whose care?, Helen Smith and Hilary Brown; parallels
between the social role perception of people with learning difficulties and
black and ethnic minority people, Carol Baxter; normalization - the whole
answer?, Tim Robinson; mental handicap and oppression, Fiona Williams; how do
we know what we think we know?, Moyra Sidell.
