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Social History of Learning Disability Bibliography

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Social History of Learning Disability Bibliography


Atkinson D, Jackson M and Walmsley J (eds) (1997) Forgotten Lives: Exploring the History of Learning Disability Kidderminster: BILD

Atkinson, D., McCarthy, M., Walmsley, J., Cooper M., Rolph, S., Aspis, S., Barette, P., Coventry, M., Ferris, G. (2000) Good Times, Bad Times: Women with Learning Difficulties Telling their Stories, BILD

Atkinson D and Walmsley J (1999) Using autobiographical approaches with people with learning disabilities Disability and Society Vol. 14 No. 2 203-217

Atkinson, D. (1989), ‘Living in Residential Care’ in Brechin, Walmsley, Katz and Peace (eds), Care Matters: Concepts, Research and Practice in Health and Social Care London: Sage, pp 13-26

Atkinson D and Walmsley J (1999) Using autobiographical approaches with people with learning disabilities Disability and Society Vol. 14 No. 2 203-217

Brigham L, Atkinson D, Jackson M, (eds) (Crossing Boundaries: Change and Continuity in the History of Learning Disability Kidderminster: BILD

Brown H. and Smith H. (eds) (1992), Normalisation: A Reader for the Nineties, London: Routledge

Carlisle Research Co-operative, ‘We are all in the same boat: Doing people led research.’ (2004)

Chapman, R (2005), The Role of the Self-Advocacy Support-Worker in UK People First Groups: Developing Inclusive Research (Open University Unpublished PhD Thesis)

Johnson, K (1998) Deinstitutionalising Women: An Ethnographical Study of Institutional Closure, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press

Mitchell D, Traustadottir R, Chapman R, Townson L, Ingham N, Ledger S (eds) Exploring Experiences of Advocacy by People with Learning Disabilities: Testimonies of Resistance London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2006)

Mitchell, H. (1997) Sporting Institutions: Football, Masculinity and Community Identity at Lennox Castle Hospital in Oral History, Vol. 25, No. 1 1997 pp 71-74

Owen, K. (2004) ‘Going Home?: A Study of Women with Severe Learning Disabilities Moving out of a Locked Ward, London: The Judith Trust.

Potts M and Fido R (1991) A Fit Person to be Removed Plymouth: Northcote House

Fido, R. & Potts, M. (1989) “It’s not true what was written down!”: Experiences of life in a mental handicap institution in Oral History Vol 17, No. 2, 1989, pp31-34

Rolph, S. (1998) Ethical Dilemmas: Oral history work with people with learning difficulties in Oral History Vol. 26, No. 2, 1998 pp65-72

Rolph, S. (1999) Enforced Migrations by People with Learning Difficulties: A Case Study in Oral History Vol. 27, No. 1, 1999 pp47-56

Wright D and Rigby A (eds) From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency: Historical Perspectives on people with Learning Disabilities London: Routledge (1996)

Race, D (1999), Social Role Valorisation and the English Experience, London: Whiting and Birch.

Race, D., Boxall, K., and Carson, I. (2005) ‘Towards a Dialogue for Practice: Reconciling Social Role Valorisation with the Social Model of Disability, Disability and Society,vol. 20, no. 3, 507-22.

Ryan, J with Thomas, F. (Revised Edition 1998) The Politics of Mental Handicap, Free Association Press

Thomson M (1998) The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics, Democracy and Social Policy in Britain c. 1870-1959 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Walmsley J and Atkinson D (2000) Oral History and the History of Learning Disability in Bornat J et al (eds) Health, Welfare and Oral History London: Routledge

Walmsley J and Johnson K (2003) Inclusive Research with People with Learning Disabilities: Past, Present and Futures Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Walmsley J (2005) Institutionalization: A Historical Perspective in Johnson K and Traustadottir R (eds) Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Walmsley J (2000) Women and the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913: citizenship, sexuality and regulation British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 28 No. 2 65-70

Walmsley J. and Welshman J. (eds) (2006) Community Care in Perspective: Care, Control and Citizenship Palgrave MacMillan

Wolfensberger, W (1972), The Principle of Normalisation in Human Services, Toronto: National Institute on Mental Retardation


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